American Inventor 2006

Three Hundred Fifty Third Post: American Inventor 2006

Well American Inventor 2006's final show was tonight. I voted for the car seat. At least every contestant got to talk to a manufacture. Now it is time for contestants to work on next year’s contest. But how about a video game being entered. We need some shows for video games. Not to mention a challenge of creating a math problem. But the thing about math is that it would make for a boring show. The show needs something tangible. It needs something that can be manufactured.

Tough luck for the mathematician. Just think about how hard the job is to get. We’ve had a lot of math factories close due to career oriented education. So it is a hard course and a hard course to get into. But seriously to be a mathematician you must first be a teacher of some sort. Well it makes sense to work with ideas to show some progress by teaching others. Gone are the easy days of sitting under an apple tree, relaxing and having a math problem just fall out of the sky. No, today it is teaching, writing and then thinking.

That is why we have a lot of amateurs. Working a steady job and running a math making business on the side. They know that dreams are made up of very valuable things. The dreams need only be organized into a useful form. Mathematics is all about organizing things that would be too complicated to explain any other way.

Just like steel mills, math factories are in fewer numbers today. However there are plenty of dreamers and thinkers waiting for the job. And in the meantime with computers as their machine shops, we will see what the amateurs can create.

May the Creative Force be with You