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Bad at physics good at math

Good at math bad at physics

Why?

Grigori Perelman?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tiHTm6nBUw

holy shit, rare video footage of grigori perelman!

I want to hear your opinions.
> " he is disappointed with the ethical standards of the field of mathematics "

Hey. I'm gonna go ahead and guess that you guys discuss this sorta thing all the time, but I would still like to discuss it.

Who are your GOATs of the Sciences? Whether it be the obvious ones like Aristotle or Euler, just explain to me in your own words why they were so important. I find these kinds of things to be more interesting when I can put a human face behind it. Euler and his number... Aristotle and all the shit he did. It makes it resonate more.

Anyway, give me your idols. My particular hard on is for a more modern mathematician:

In November 2002, Perelman posted the first of a series of eprints to the arXiv, in which he claimed to have outlined a proof of the geometrization conjecture, of which the Poincaré conjecture is a particular case.

Well he proved whatever he was trying to prove and then this badass refused the Fields Medal.

Get a load of this guy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigori_Perelman

>>6077401
He was born in Germany and is of Russian descent.
Those fucking Russian Jews, man.

any other recommendations?

What do you guys think of Grigori Perelman?

Any fans of topology here?

Why is he a recluse?

Easily one of the smartest people living today.
Not to mention a great personality and ethic.

He looks like such a hobo, but based on this picture, I think he'd be the picture of conventional attractiveness if he cut his hair and trimmed his beard.
Not that I'm complaining; I just think it's interesting how much difference such a small change could make.

anyone have thomas' calculus 12th edition?

>mfw no one has the text

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(And believe me when I tell you you can not believe the amount of energy that it developed in the few minutes that it ran at our company in Portland on mark street it was unbelievable the amount of current and voltage produced was out of this world it through arcs of electricity everywhere.) When I left the company they did not work on the resonant atomic battery again and no one got it working I was the only one that truly understood how it worked . It was then that I discovered that there was more photon interaction than anyone realized at the time so I went my direction and in all these years had been studying the phenomena.
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>>4944078

if you guys are so smart why have you yet to solve any of these?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Prize_Problems

thought you've wanted to be rich and famous.
stop slacking and do something useful in your lives!
pic related, the guy solved one

finals this week or coming up? post in this thread.

Should I sacrifice love, relationships, happiness or even my sanity for science?

Pic marginally related.

wow the autism really comes out on friday nights, doesn't it

any interest in starting a /sci/ synchtube?

Hey /sci/ -

High school student here. I'd like to learn more about mathematics, and I was thinking of purchasing Rudin's Principles of Mathematical analysis, 3rd edition. However, I'm currently taking precalculus, as my school, since it is American, fucking sucks. Would I be able to handle Rudin?

tl:dr Amerifag in precalc likes math and wants to read Rudin, can he handle it?