/sci/ - Science & Math

Ask a recently-graduated PhD in Mathematics anything.

I did this a few months back with varying degrees of success so I thought it would be a good idea to give it another go.

I'll periodically check back in on the thread depending on the level of activity.

Ask a PhD candidate in Math who's close to graduation anything.

>>5368521
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hendrik_Lorentz

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Poincar%C3%A9

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Minkowski

Deserve more respect than Einstein for their contributions towards SR/GR.

<div class="math">The\;scientist\;does\;not\;study\;nature\;because\;it\;is\;useful\;to\;do\;so.\;He\;studies\;it\;bec
ause\;he\;takes\;pleasure\;in\;it,\;and\;he\;takes\;pleasure\;in\;it\;because\;it\;is\;beautiful.\;
\mathbf{ If\;nature\;were\;not\;beautiful} \;
it\;would\;not\;be\;worth\;knowing,\;and\;
\mathbf{life\;would\;not\;be\;worth\;living.} </div>

<div class="math">The\;scientist\;does\;not\;study\;nature\;because\;it\;is\;useful\;to\;do\;so.\;He\;studies\;it\;bec
ause\;he\;takes\;pleasure\;in\;it,\;and\;he\;takes\;pleasure\;in\;it\;because\;it\;is\;beautiful.\;
\mathbf{ If\;nature\;were\;not\;beautiful} \;
\textup{it would not be worth knowing, and}\;
\mathbf{life\;would\;not\;be\;worth\;living.} </div>

<div class="math">The\;scientist\;does\;not\;study\;nature\;because\;it\;is\;useful\;to\;do\;so.\;He\;studies\;it\;bec
ause\;he\;takes\;pleasure\;in\;it,\;and\;he\;takes\;pleasure\;in\;it\;because\;it\is\;beautiful.}\;
\mathbf{ If\;nature\;were\;not\;beautiful} \;
\textup{it would not be worth knowing, and}\;
\mathbf{life\;would\;not\;be\;worth\;living.} </div>

<div class="math">\textup{The scientist does not study nature because it is useful to do so. He studies it because he takes pleasure in it, and he takes pleasure in it because it is beautiful.}\;
\mathbf{ If\;nature\;were\;not\;beautiful} \;
\textup{it would not be worth knowing, and}\;
\mathbf{life\;would\;not\;be\;worth\;living.} </div>

>nootropics
>/sci/

>>>/x/

The scientist does not study nature because it is useful to do so. He studies it because he takes pleasure in it, and he takes pleasure in it because it is beautiful. If nature were not beautiful it would not be worth knowing, and <span class="math">\mathbf{life\;would\;not\;be\;worth\;living.}[/spoiler] I am not speaking, of course, of the beauty which strikes the senses, of the beauty of qualities and appearances. I am far from despising this, but it has nothing to do with science. What I mean is that more intimate beauty which comes from the harmonious order of its parts, and which a pure intelligence can grasp.

>>5192764

I'ld like to expand :

I was suicidal at around 10 and was thinking ways of killing myself, my favourite option was to shoot myself in the head but that was the trickiest to accomplish and the easiest option to to jump off a high building. (I ranked my options by : -Easiness and -Pain and came to a compromise).

I never got round to doing it because I didn't have the courage to carry on with it.

I then pondered on the thought that we are all going to die and be forgotten forever.

I thought I might as well live life and then die rather than die early, that would just be a waste.

Ask a guy who just passed his PhD candidacy exam in mathematics anything.