>>12654475What kind of "truth" would satisfy you?
>>12651491My undergrad uni gives separate calc classes for non-engineering majors. My intructor followed Spivak's book, doing all the proofs. There were way more proofs than examples.
>>12648894I've heard physicists hate each other significantly more than mathematicians. Maybe there's a link there.
But maybe they don't feel the need of a general since most threads seem to be mainly about physics.
>>12635994 Oh. But you seem to be someone pleasant to talk with, so I think you made some. Or are people from your new uni harder to approach/befriend?
>>12642339I don't think it's virtually impossible to do math while not officially tied to academia, but without at least the experience up to the graduate school it's highly unlikely, and then one would need to spend a lot of time interacting to academics anyway (unless they are researches in the private sector I guess), which would require enough proximity to universities and enough financial independence.
It would be interesting to see data about these people, I've just seen one or two examples.
Academics get really unfriendly towards people who venture outside academia, I know two very capable guys who are having a lot of trouble with getting their PhDs because they become data scientists. It's like they cannot accept anyone who doesn't dedicate their whole time and life to mathematics, or maybe they sort of think they've become permanently corrupted by the private sector.
