/sci/ - Science & Math

I'm currently an undergrad and I want to get into an academic job for pure mathematics because I want to do both research and teaching in the field. Particularly, I'm interested in a field related to Algebra. Yet I have undergraduate friends who seem to be super dedicated and passionate in pure math as well. For example, I have a friend, and she clocks in long hours of doing math to the point of being similar to a full-time job. She seems to have received plenty of exposure to math even before she pursued her studies in uni.

My background in mathematics may be different from many other math majors, as I've been exposed to writing formal, rigorous proofs and doing thought-provoking math problems (similar to those seen from competitions), so I have experience in problem-solving, before pursuing uni. Then again, I have this feeling that all the other pure math majors are better than I am, which is what makes me feel like a moron who is currently questioning my self-worth.

I appreciate being with like-minded people, who all love mathematics just like I do, but nevertheless, I can't shake off this internal fear that they will go to top-ranking grad schools and subsequently take my job while I face the possibility of failure to break into academe. I guess this is me being ultracompetitive but it seems that the academic job market is a nightmare (and I can't see myself doing applied math in my life). Nonetheless, I find that this mindset will most likely damage relationships that I have with my pure math friends, as well as my mental and emotional well-being.

are psychostimulants like adderall or ritalin and other illegal cognitive enhancing drugs viewed as cheating in academia like steroids in bodybuilding?

What drives man's desire to post bait threads and replies of image board forums? If it is the desire for attention, then the question is why? Why does a few angry replies give pleasure and satisfaction? How does evolution explain this?

Don't really into space stuff but have seen the abort systems for this particular spacecraft, is it possible that the spacecraft can blow up and kill the astronauts like columbia or will the abort system always save their lives???

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Hawking also warned against what CERN was doing with the LHC. No one listens though.

Is lolicon a type of math?

Simple answer: Infinite regress problem rises up if you think there has to be anything created by a creator which the creator is a creation of another one, etc. Also:

If we assume the Big Bang Theory is correct, then there is no "before" the Big Bang in the usual sense of the word "before". If something caused the Big Bang, that something is outside of time and - for the lack of a better word - "infinite" or always having existed from at least our limited vantage point.

Because this entity is outside of our timeline, it could be viewed as a "first cause" or "prime mover". This doesn't mean this entity itself wasn't created by something else in its own separate timeline; but for logic to prevail: If we keep going back, traversing possibly multiple timelines from possibly multiple universes, it all ultimately has to fall back on one cause, outside of all the other timelines, thus being infinite from their vantage points.

This singularity must in fact exist given the logic above. As you noted, this doesn't mean it is a personal being like a God, or even anything more than an inanimate object for our purposes, but we have sufficient evidence that it's out there, or was at one point in "time"."