/sci/ - Science & Math

Quick, silly math proofs question:

For induction over the natural numbers we have to prove the (n+1) case, but for induction over the integers do we also have to prove the (n-1) case?

ITT people smarter than Einstein.

I feel a mixture of envy and admiration for many of you here on / sci /.

Let me explain: one of the few fields of human mental activity that is unreachable to me, to my brain, is mathematics. It is one of the most beautiful areas of intellectual exercise: there is no place for charlatans; for mediocre ideas; for sustained mistakes and for profiteers - is the queen of sciences and one of the purest and most crystalline expressions of beauty. And for me, however, mathematics is something of an enigma, an sphinx: I cannot understand it (I even have serious difficulties with the four basic operations), something that fills me with self-loathing and self-hatred.

I'm a writer. I always had a huge talent with words. I remember once, before I even start with a real reading and writing practice, where my teacher at school suggested a homework for all the class, telling us to write an essay (I do not remember which was the theme ... freedom, democracy, equality: something like that). When my father was taking me to class, I remembered the homework, and started to do it right there in the car. I did not want to produce something meaningful: I just wanted to deliver the activity and get rid of it to not lose another grade (I had forgotten to do many activities). I wrote using my thigh as a table, with the movement of the car, my letters became with a crooked and blurry appearance. To my surprise, the teacher chose my text as the best of the class. It was a surprise.

>>5186348
Um, he can control the universe.
Why would he run after a million, when he can control the universe?

> "I know how to control the Universe. Why would I run to get a million, tell me?"

>PhD in millennium dollar prize Mathematics
>Live in parents basement
>45 year old virgin
>turn down 1,000k starting

I seriously hope you guys don't do this

what does /sci/ think about social isolation?

good thing or bad thing?

so this faggot solved some big mathematical problem
it will "change the world" they say

but what exactly will we be able to do with it?
like can they build new supercumputer and iphoneXXL now or what?

Hello, /sci/,
Just having a huge mental block here, but what are some engineering ideas that have benefited humanity?
Thanks(: