Continuous vs Discrete Mathematics

Last updated Oct 27, 2022 Edit Source

• Math

One of the difficult things in programming and cg when dealing with mathematics is translating things from math papers to something useful. Perhaps you want to translate a math paper discussing spirographs into your 3D package as a tool? To do this you must be able to read the paper, understand the math, and translate that into some form of code or process that your 3D package can understand. https://entagma.com/ have a useful chat about math papers and CG that I suggest watching. One of the big things I got from their chat is the difference between infinite and discrete mathematics.

If you have always struggled with the whys of mathematics and would like a foundational and historical perspective on why math is the way it is today I highly suggest a book called Infinite Powers by Steven Strogatz.

https://www.stevenstrogatz.com/books/infinite-powers

https://scienceblogs.com/goodmath/2007/03/01/basics-discrete-vs-continuous-1#:~:text=The%20distinction%20is%20a%20very,line%2C%20or%20the%20real%20numbers.&text=In%20discrete%20mathematics%2C%20you're,number%20of%20points%20between%20them.

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