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Anonymous Tue 15 Mar 03:43:12 2022 No.14304643 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>14304648 >>14304690 >>14304885

every good mathematician i've heard about started really early in their childhood. if you weren't a prodigy, can you still do well as a mathematician?

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Anonymous Tue 15 Mar 2022 03:45:19 No.14304648 Report

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>>14304643
yes(no)

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 15 Mar 2022 03:47:13 No.14304652 Report

Quoted By: >>14304667

Um, Anon...why don't you tell me about some of the definitions you learned about recently. I'll take anything. Anything you learned in the last three months.
Can you give me some examples, run me through them?
https://voca.ro/1dm9UbUtKNKQ

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Anonymous Tue 15 Mar 2022 03:53:29 No.14304667 Report

Quoted By: >>14304705 >>14304706

>>14304652
u substitution, 3d volumes from 2d functions, riemann sums, area between two curves, etc and a bunch of little problems in course math
riemann hypothesis on my own time
and since you said "anything you learned in the past 3 months," i'm learning 3d modelling, reading GEB/learning about music history, getting caught up on new research for a project of mine (biology related), and tried to learn python/ML but was too stew peed to figure out how to use anaconda

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Anonymous Tue 15 Mar 2022 04:04:08 No.14304690 Report

Quoted By: >>14304717

>>14304643
>if you weren't a prodigy, can you still do well as a mathematician?
why does it matter? Just do what you enjoy, you'll die soon. No use in worrying if other people think you're "good"

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Anonymous Tue 15 Mar 2022 04:15:28 No.14304705 Report

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>>14304667
>high school level math
>and also reimann hypothesis on my own time

kek

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Anonymous Tue 15 Mar 2022 04:16:28 No.14304706 Report

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>>14304667
mathematicians aren't really "good" in the sense of virtue ethics
go to /lit/ and tell them we sent you there with pic related
this stuff would turn you into a good engine designer for example

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Anonymous Tue 15 Mar 2022 04:24:56 No.14304717 Report

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>>14304705
it's like the new york of math problems, so yes i'm studying the reimann hypothesis even though i'm dumb.
>>14304706
are you deliberately misinterpreting my statement or am i missing something? i meant skilled, not "virtuous". lol
>>14304690
very sweet advice. it's good to enjoy being skilled and accomplished, though

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 15 Mar 2022 04:25:25 No.14304720 Report

Quoted By: >>14304888

a 'good mathematician' is essentially a bank teller
Gauss and von Neumann are more like bank robbers
think of it this way: Gauss and von Neumann are to good mathematicians as necromancers are to biologists
I know, you really thought mathematicians had an ethical foundation above necromancy...I guess that makes Gauss and von Neumann more like grave robbers XD

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Anonymous Tue 15 Mar 2022 04:32:19 No.14304727 Report

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Evariste Galois

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Anonymous Tue 15 Mar 2022 05:41:55 No.14304885 Report

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>>14304643
in addition to starting young, often an episode of prolonged isolation such as illness provides the necessary focus to develop talent. so you might ask if development of mathematical talent has some relation to the degree that eveything else could be excluded. one would think you'd have until puberty. pussy is great filter here. many greats were virgins so be careful what you wish for.

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Anonymous Tue 15 Mar 2022 05:44:43 No.14304888 Report

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>>14304720
that sounds about right
https://youtu.be/etxQGtbD7i4?t=133

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Anonymous Tue 15 Mar 2022 05:46:42 No.14304896 Report

Quoted By: >>14305176

I'm 29 and only started my mathematical career within that past 2 years self-studying the university curriculum. If you can do Calculus and Linear Algebra, understand and write proofs, you can become a mathematician is what I've learned. Everything is based on logic and follows naturally from prerequisites. I was labeled gifted/talented as a child and I graduated a year and a half early from high school so idk. But if you put in effort you will win.

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Anonymous Tue 15 Mar 2022 08:11:19 No.14305176 Report

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>>14304896
everyone was in gifted as a child. Studying math and creating original work in mathematics are two very different things. Fact of is most notable mathematicians showed signs of brilliance at a young age. Look at R1 math departments and most of non-teaching professors at least placed bronze in their countries math olympiad.

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