/sci/ - Science & Math

Are all high-level maths students intuitive geniuses, or do you think some of them just studied their asses off?

Asking because, though I'm pretty gifted at maths, I'm still a 135 IQ brainlet nobully (tests used in my country might be different from the burger ones though) and I'm pretty sure that means I can't get into one of the more prestigious schools

Well actually I used to think that, but then recently I met a friend of a friend's who's going to the école polytechnique (french equivalent of MIT), and I don't remember how exactly but we ended up picking up a math puzzles/riddles book that was lying there, we had sort of a contest since none of us has actually had sex ever, and the didn't strike me as particularly gifted or intuitive.
Actually he didn't figure out one single puzzle, while most of us did.
>in b4 "that doesn't mean anything"
let's not get into that, you all know it does

/int/

Any other premedfags/medfags with math/engineering undergrad majors? I was engineering before I realized it was useless to work that hard in undergrad if I'm going to have to try even harder later.

>>7364230
Because he's not as smart as GauB.

>mathematicians in charge of head wear

>>7236951
>Calculus
Awww, baby's first math class.

>>7224379
Why do all of Euler's robes have the same pattern?

Bros, can you look at my sage code and tell me why I'm pulling the wrong answer?

picap,counter = prime_pi(1000000),0
def rotate(l):
return l[1:] + l[:1]
for i in range(24,picap):
chk = 0
star = Primes().unrank(i)
sstar = str(star)
rots = len(sstar)
cap = rots
for n in range (cap):
while rots >= 0:
sstar = rotate(sstar)
if int(sstar) in Primes():
rots -= 1
else:
chk = 1
break
if chk == 0:
counter += 1
counter

>>7197554
>Physicist
Leonhard Euler

>Chemist
Leonhard Euler

>Biologist
Leonhard Euler

>Mathematician
Leonhard Euler

>Engineer
Leonhard Euler

>Logician
Leonhard Euler

>Linguist
Leonhard Euler

>Psychologist/Neuroscientist
Leonhard Euler

I got a question about diff. equations I couldn't solve today on my calc test.
If we have a function that passes through a point (1,-2), and a normal line at every point of that function passes through the point (1,1).
Find all of th avaliable functions y(x), that solve this equation.

Ok so let's say I have this function y=2x-x^2 and I want to calculate the volume we get with boundaries [0, 2], when rotating it around the y axis. Thanks guys

What is the importance of an identity?

What are some good resources for preparing for a math competition?

what is proof?
how does one do proof?
how does on proof proofs?
what is the difference between proofs and not proofs.

we just don't know.

>>7032283

yeah, fucking degenerate trash with bad eyesight. why do we let them live with their shitty genes and drain society

sp guuhys, Eulr hre!

Mn I cnt't' see shitt.

cca flks'.

post people that propelled math or CS by at least a decade. just saw that thread with the picture of von neumann, and i wonder how many people actually were required to generate the science on which millions of grad students and postdocs work now.

euler
von neumann
newton/leibniz
gauss

who else is in a league with those guys?

What are the essential mathematics textbooks from the great geniuses?

Euclid - Elements
Euler - Elements of Algebra
Euler - Introduction to the Analysis of the Infinite
Euler - Foundations of Differential Calculus & Foundations of Integral Calculus
Gauss - Arithmetical Investigations

More?
Euler -

>Euler pronounced Oyler
Why is this allowed?

Since this fucking garbage gets reposted every other day lets keep one up to satisfy those fuckers

> vote goes to euler

The correct answer is either Euler or Gauss. Possibly Cantor if you're into that kind of thing

>>6638570
This squinty fuck dropped the ball.
Gauss = GOAT, Euler a shit.