/sci/ - Science & Math

I think one needed quite high education for this kind of patent job and there weren't so many academia positions anyway.
I too find it sad that so many other people are unknown to the public (I work with a guy from the air force and today when I nutoriously talked about turing machines during lunch he told me he wouldn't know eighter Turing, von Neuman, Hilbert or Gödel...srlsy?).

>>4963089
For a (very) soft introduction one could try to read through "Nakahara" Geometry topology and physics. He basically goes through a lot of topics, none too deep, but at least one gets an idea of what one needs. The book has many chapters on differential geometry and shows a glimps of strings in the end. Again, it's not a book about one subject, but it's an overview and I'd recommend it.

>>4963073
All the compex stuff is missing (unless you count operator product expansions and functional analysis under "calculus" :)

>>4961165
this is not "me" btw., I was confused for a moment...

@the set theory people, what do you do, academia wise?