Imagination

By the end of this week...I SHOULD be able to do this X(. When I look at hard math problems(not that this one is hard...I haven't tried it yet) I like to think to myself, 'Where did this come from?' Usually there is always a big name from history than can be thrown out who can be accredited with such a feat. But it must take some serious imagination to come up with calculations...particularly calculus...that can be used to describe some aspects of life.

And yet I find that the people I consider to be the great minds of our times are not often found in the realms of math and science...and yet it takes so much work to get results from that field. I prefer literary giants to mathematical whizzes...

Anyways, I am just pondering on these things because I am currently burdened with learning how to do these things that historical mathematicians came up with...fun stuff no?