/sci/ - Science & Math

1. How many primes p satisfy p = x^2 - 1 for integer x?
2. How many primes p satisfy p = x^2 + 1 for integer x?
You should be able to solve these.

>>10167283
>You are a graduate student, too?
Yes.
>What about you, anon?
Pretty much what I already said; I don't see myself getting a PhD or doing research, I don't have much money (it is more than a week that I don't eat, hopefully tomorrow parents will send some), and I don't have any friend since the beginning of the year. The last one is the worst, I used to have good friends and spend quality time with them, now I feel alone and sad. So I complain with myself and on 4chan.
I am grateful for the lectures, but when I see big operas such as stacks projects (or even some 600p book) I get very frustated, maybe in the next few years I will not be able to learn what it is already known to everybody in the tank, how do I even expect to do something new? How even survive when my background is abstract nonsense in which I am not even decent? For what am I going to study in agony and fear for the next years, writing a thesis maybe on something already worked out by others, at most changing few words? This are the shitty feelings of a shitty graduate student.
>I take it seriously because it's still fun
Very good words.

>analysis only gets one spot
>a bunch of shit that can fall under algebra splattered everywhere

>>9177510
>Yeesh, I expected a lot of autism on this thread when I opened it, but... yeesh.
So by "autism" you _also_ mean "bad at impressing girls?

>>8919827
Wow, you actually managed to publish a thesis on simplyifying assumptions. Jesus christ...

>>8846230
Are you getting his reference?
Once upon a time, the president of Harvard was sacked for pointing out that IQ stats goigng back to the 1930's support the notion that women collectively have a lower standard deviation on IQ (among other stats).