/sci/ - Science & Math

Yeah, Purdue. And that's funny, I have a hand-waving relationship with the librarian there, so I think that's pretty funny. I accidentally tore the top of page 21 in Hardy and Wright and I was all like, oh fuck, my bad, but she was like, it's cool, paper tape that shit.

And then I go back and see that they have three copies of the same edition. One of them was signed and given as a gift to the library by Prof. deBranges, actually. I thought that was pretty cool.

But, seeing as how I'm not a student, I'm just auditing the classes and bumming around their library, I can't check out books.

This picture is of the place where I spend most of my time.

I moved here to West Lafayette in January, after dreaming for years during my adolescence and post-high school years about doing the kind of work that I'm engaged in today.

Four years ago, I met a professor who would befriend me after I showed him the work that I had been doing, a solution of the Basel Problem, and although not original, took two years to conclude.

This man, Professor Laszlo Lempert, would lend me a book titled "What Is Mathematics?" He wrote my name down on a card and put it in the book's place on his shelf.

And, although I didn't know it at the time, I was just handed a book of magic by a wizard.

Four years later, last November, I visited this building again, knowing that a professional mathematician was not going to forget that I had borrowed his book.

In the lobby of this immense building, I look at the directory to find Prof. Lempert's office. Lo and behold, Rm. 832, Head of Department - Laszlo Lempert.

I sheepishly explained that, while his book was all tore up and shit, that I thought the book was absolutely magical, had changed the way I look at mathematics, and, although I didn't understand everything in it, I had at least read every single page. I promised him I would get him another book.

He told me that if I loved it so much, I could simply have it.

That literally left me speechless.

He graciously gave me 35 minutes of his time, in which I gave him my reasons for not having been in his department for the past four years.

I resolved to rectify this situation, and so I have.

I never have taken as granted the opportunity to come to learn at one of the largest and most prestigious institutions of mathematical thought in the world.

What gifts are you grateful for today?

Some people on here, sheesh...

"Oh, I'm perfect, I'm Gauss reincarnate, math bends to my will, and everyone else who is making an effort is just wasting their time because I've already done it before you, and if I haven't already done it, then at least I'm going to figure it out before you and therefore you may as well bow down and then kill yourself, you're wasting air that could be mine. OH PS I'M ASIAN so that means blow my cock so I can calculate the trajectory of my semen emission"

Jesus Christ. Well, the only thing you've proven is that you're actually too retarded to go to the right class. You're not challenged? Everyone else retarded? You're in the wrong class, dipshit. Try something harder and let all us "whites" figure it out ourselves, because, by the very nature of being mathematicians-in-training, we things we know the best are the things we understand least. We are fully aware that we're going to have to do more work before we get our grips on the subject material; that's what being a good mathematician is all about.

This is just a personal view, but as you're definitely in the wrong class, you've failed to identify appropriate material for you to study. That means you're never going to be a first-rate mathematician, especially since you can't even pick the right class while you're still in school. Okay. You go and be your little Gauss for the time being. The rest of us will pave our way to success with hard work.

Yes that's it exactly. I don't feel like I've done any damage to my brain, just defocused. And in all honesty, I'd be averse to saying I'm lucky, and point out that I used only certain drugs excessively (weed, LSD, mushrooms), things that aren't really terribly known for causing permanent damage, all of our DARE classes aside. Scientifically, substances such as crack and meth and all manner of other bullshit don't have the know safety profiles of weed and psychedelics. While I did basically shut down there for a while, and just now starting to reboot, I kept in mind that, you know, I did have some sort of talent in the intelligence area, and so I'm going to kinda need that a little later on, when I've decided to stop laughing at myself in the bathroom mirror.

Yeah, I feel pretty retarded too. But, if I'm honest with myself, that's because I left high school and didn't do jack. The essence of the four or so years after I left get high school was to, in fact, get high by smoking hella weed and dropping a LOT of acid. Like, a lot. I'm just now getting back into school, but I'm only auditing because I can't afford anything. Musta spent too much frying my balls off. But that, as anything, gets old after a while, so here I am, nursing my brain back to health.

Yes. Period. Absolutely. Without a doubt. But I'm pretty sure that's how one begins the journey down the long road to excellence. That's been the object lesson for me for the past six months. I'm at Purdue right now studying math, and let me tell you, before now, I had no clue what this was all about. Today, I'm not much closer, but I have a greater respect for the work it's going to take to become elite. And that's a fact.

Yeah, a few years ago I got all Asperger'd out and worked out all the closed form expressions for cos(n/60*π) for all pertinent n (only the one quadrant is needed, since cos is periodic)...

A few years later, and a little more math under my belt, it became clear that cos(r*π)=cos(p/q*π) for rational r is always an algebraic number...which is kinda fucked up for a "transcendental function", but hell, why not. One thing that related directly to my work is that, for the cosines of angles of multiples of π/60, the degree (of the algebraic number) was always a power of 2 less than 16. I would remember more details of the whole "cosine of a rational multiple of pi being an algebraic number" problem, but I've smoked hella weed and dropped a LOT of acid since then. But yeah, you're right on the money.

OP, if you really wanna troll your students, you could offer to grade on a curve. Except don't just add points like most people do. Grade on a real curve where you have the same number of Fs as As, etc. It has the potential to force some passing grades into failing grades, and it would make some of your students cry.

Also, your students really suck, so you should troll them even harder by teaching the class like it's a college class by making them write so much information into their notes that their wrists hurt after every class and exams have 50 calculations that they have to complete in an hour.

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>>3612689
yeah, but I forgot my link sorry.
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Wow

I took linear algebra at the end of my highschool years. I signed up to take the class at the local state university for a semester thinking it would be this amazing course with young intellectuals such as myself. I couldn't have been more disappointed at what a god damn joke it was. Most of the class was composed of retarded juniors and upper classmen, who were fucktards that came in baked half of the time. The "professor" was a retired Taiwanese electrical engineering who I believe was senile or possibly demented. My mom had to drive me for 6 weeks just so I could sit in this godawful course, repeating the death out of theorems which I simply taught myself from studying the textbook in one week. I was once young and eager like you, seeking to expand my knowledge. The truth is that most undergraduate math and science is bull crap if you're gifted. My advice is to do what I did: blow through all of the shit, and get the fuck out of undergrad in 1-2 years so you can start "learning"

Dude, you got this off MySpace, you fucking creep

i still cant find the one with philosophers way past the mathematicians

It's going to be serious shit if they can't fix it.

That simple.

>"there is 1440 minutes in a day"
>"there is"
>capitalizing "and" at the start of a sentence
>putting a period to separate "but" from the sentence
>"just don't even"
>all the other goddamn things that are wrong.

It doesn't make sense at all and don't get me started on the line about disproving atheism and evolution.

Can't be solved if we have no clue what the cost is, otherwise this would be beyond easy.

Also, it's supposed to read "A game costs $1 plus half its price"

I'll be first in line for the "implant your brain into a younger body" surgery.

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>>2270544
Angry that you're a retard who can't read so you defend other people as fucking stupid as yourself who "answer" questions by saying something that has nothing at all to do with the question? Yup.