摘要: |
I think it would be a fair and honest admission for me to confess that mathematics was neither my first love nor my calling. I have always been rather more drawn to words or to visuals. [OK, so I did Maths, English, Art and Economics at 'A' level, but I'm blowed if I'm going to record here what grades I got.] Anyway, the one area of maths that appealed to me from the off and met with my preference for visual representation was the Venn diagram. Loops on a page! Now you're talking. But it isn't so much the loops-on-a-page thing in the abstract that I thought I'd muse upon this month, it is the intersections, and specifically the intersections between the loops, which might not have been significant hitherto, or intersections that we might not spot unless we stand back and apply a bit of lateral thinking (a nod to Edward de Bono, may he rest in peace). |