/sci/ - Science & Math

>>15830608
Can vouch for Elements of Style. My thesis advisor bought me a copy of Strunk and White after reading the first draft of what later became my first first-author publication.

>>12252734
holy shit...

Which type of engineering and why?

Goals:
>good salary
>good international job perspectives

> "No mathematician should ever allow himself to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man's game." - G.H. Hardy

> "And, in mathematics, there is not much you can do to attain greatness. Those men and women who attain it manage to do so through their uncanny 'feeling' for the subject. There is nothing you can do to learn this 'feeling.' You can, to be sure, work hard enough at mathematics to make yourself into a competent mathematician, perhaps even a competent research mathematician. But you cannot learn to do mathematics the way the great mathematicians do, any more than you can learn to throw a fastball or to run 100 yards in ten seconds. You can or you cannot. If you can, you will know it early. If you are an adult and you are not already a great mathematician, then you are not going to be." - Jerry King, The Art of Mathematics

This was after giving the classic Gauss example where at 8 years old he figured out the sum of all the numbers from 1-100 in a matter of seconds without being taught how to do so beforehand.

What are your thoughts? Should the majority of us give up on any hope of attaining greatness in the field of mathematics if we weren't a mathematical prodigy?