How I Realized My Need To Learn Math
It took a year of continuous decisions in various technologies to realize that.

It was the moment when I realized that I couldn’t understand what the mathematical equations on a consensus meant. Consequently, I decided to go on a journey where I could enhance my mathematical skills to deepening my understanding of blockchain technology. Now let’s delve into the details

Part I (Continuous lectures and personal conversations with my computer technology professor)

In my first semester, I couldn’t realize what was he up to. Even more, I thought of him as an old man who doesn’t know what he says. But he proved me wrong at the end of the second semester. Furthermore, his deep conversations further sparked my interest when I was in his room on mathematical topics. Consequently, I started to have some look.

Part II (when I couldn’t understand the mathematical equations on Bitcoin Whitepaper)

I decided to go further when I couldn’t understand two mathematical equations in Bitcoin White Paper. It was formulated as a series and it was the moment I asked my friend. He told me that it was decentralization. But it was actually not. I knew what this meant after I’ve learned series in calculus. It meant that: no matter how much the hacker tries, the probability of simultaneously controlling 51% of the nodes will approximate to 0 as long as the chain becomes longer. And that was simply called “Proof of Work”. I was relaxed and gone further on the road to finish calculus.

Part III (when I asked my statistics professor whether blockchain statistics was possible)

And this was the shortest argument I ever had. And he told, “as long as the data exists on technology, so does the statistics of a technology”. So, it was a way to open the door for me to learn statistics. At the end of the semester, I barely learned anything related to statistics and the next term wasn’t different. Until my statistics professor explained to me how I could learn statistics. And it was way more shocking because the only learning method I knew was in the classroom. He simply told me to learn statistical programming with a few programming languages with a statistics book on my other side. Even more, he helped me with how I could start learning statistical programming. He even recommended me to start with R and Python and told me that I’d need statistics much more than an ordinary professor. Consequently, I started to understand the statistics and learning simultaneously.

How did you realize that you need to learn math? Share your moments in the comments section below.
['Ata Tekeli']
['Technology', 'Math', 'Statistics']