Comfort Math?

[sythyry]

[OOC rowyn gave me an icon of Feralan and hCevian!  So, as promised, they will chat. -bb]

I am hCevian writing this.

When I am upset, I generally think about hyperbolic geometry to calm down.  When Feralan is upset, he often contemplates arithmetic or polynomial sequences of numbers. 

What kind of mathematics do you find most comforting?  Or, if not mathematics, what other thoughts comfort you when you are downcast or distressed?

Comments

[mmsword.livejournal.com]

Fractals are most calming for myself. Self recursion in general is a calming thing for me.

[tracerj.livejournal.com]

When I'm heavily relaxed (however I get to that state), I know my mind's eye turns to slowly shifting tessellations of coloured polygons (generally simple and regular or stretched vertically from regular) and, strangely enough, letters or numbers. Being such a fan of typography – a sort of formalised calligraphy, for those from other worlds – means that I find as much fascination with the geometry of the printed glyph as with more natural or abstract forms.

I don't think of any maths in particular to calm down... but I might very well try that from now on, or perhaps examine where it is I actually do and simply haven't realise dit yet.