/sci/ - Science & Math

Any maths major here get BTFO by the epic compendium 'God Created the integers'. -edited by the late Stephen Hawking

I struggled, really struggled - it showed me I know nothing!
It's scary that we have somehow gleaned this knowledge.
It makes me want to lock myself in a room for a very long time to understand everything.

I dont think I can understand the total significance of the book, in one life time.
This makes me very sad.
How did these men come reach these levels of understanding in such brutish and technologically primitive times?

Euclid
>he aint so tuff.

Archimedes
> no biggie

Diophantus
> ok

Newton
>warming up sweating

Euler
> putting the effort in

Laplace, Fournier, Gass, Riemann, Cauchy.
>ok, slow the f' down! Let me go over this!


Cantor, Boole, Turing, DedKind, Godel
>yeah yeah, I know what they did they can wait... I've no hope.