/sci/ - Science & Math

>>develops and presents field equations before Einstein, who struggled with it for years
>> "physics is too hard for physicists" btfo physicists worldwide

Uhh... hello? Based department?

>>8549902
>Not posting the dude who literally knew all of mathematics at the time
Pleb tier posts desu senpai

Spend a year to completely solve P Versus NP, then spend another year coding a super cool computer program that would pull in an estimated revenue of $25,000 a month. I'm 24 right now, I'd be 26 when I actually start my pure Mathematics program leading to a Ph.D. It'd take me roughly a total of 8 years to eventually get my Ph.D. That means I'd be 34 when I graduate with my doctorate. I'd be 32 otherwise but the difference seems unimportant. The problem leading to this plan is that I've been hospitalized every semester of my actually attempting to do a course in math. It may seem improbable that I'll actually solve the problem but I have some reasons for you to believe otherwise. 1.) I have an extremely high IQ. I got scored a 172 IQ on a well-known intelligence test I took shortly after I was released from the psychiatric hospital this last spring. 2.) I'm on a very sedating antipsychotic injection. This seems counter intuitive but it's not. The sedation increases my efficacy at solving problems by making dormant the parts I'm not willfully using to solve it. 3.) I have a lot of faith. And a lot of coffee.

I think so. Schizophrenia occurs when the brain is flooded with dopamine but in a massively unorganized fashion - resulting in the confusion known as psychosis. Basically it's the opposite of clear and powerful concentration in untreated individuals. My idea is that in a stable individual medicated with an antipsychotic such as Risperdal have the individual drink high amounts of coffee every day while trying to solve extremely difficult science problems without writing anything down. Have them, wake up, shower etc. then go on a long run and then for 10 undisturbed hours concentrate very hard for a long time on 800 set of difficult graduate level Mathematics problems - only taking breaks to go to the bathroom and eat food, but even so still thinking about the problems. As a schizophrenic myself I've noticed a significant decrease in symptoms by doing this. Basically the goal is to increase the power and size used of the brain to live a high functioning scientific and socially rich lifestyle. Then decrease the dosage of medication slowly and increase the difficulty of problems, effectively resulting in a powerful brain capable of extreme focus, clarity, and visualization of problems that require planning and organization.

The same concentration technique involving sitting down and attempting the solution of a extremely difficult math problem without writing anything down could be use to develop photographic memory in individuals who previously didn't have it. It's really very amazing what motivation and goal-setting can accomplish in a life.

Post original thoughts and discuss.

Taking it next year in the fall. Possibly the January after that if I decide to study more for it.

Erik Satie or Charles Griffes (vale of dreams). Maybe Christian piano hymns.

Is it hard to get into this program? I'll be applying from San Francisco State University. Would a 4.0 gpa be enough?

ITT - We solve AND understand questions that are simple to state and think about but not necessarily easy to solve. There's no use in just copying and pasting a proof from somewhere, you need to convince everyone that your proof really is correct.
Hopefully this exercise will help everyone, including the answerer, understand these problems and solutions better (after all, at the risk of sounding cliche, if you can explain something difficult in simple terms, then you really have understood it).
Starting off:
Hilbert's 3rd Problem - Given any two polyhedra of equal volume, is it always possible to cut the first into finitely many polyhedral pieces that can be reassembled to yield the second?

DAILY REMINDER THAT DAVID HILBERT HAS SET BACK MATHEMATICS A CENTURY WITH HIS QUEST FOR CHILDISH RIGOUR.

20TH CENTURY MATHEMATICS IS MOOT AND WE ARE ONLY NOW GETTING BACK ON THE RIGHT TRACK

IMAGINE A WORLD WHERE BASED GODEL WAS FOLLOWED INSTEAD OF FUCKING KEKKRAUT SHILLBERT. THIS IS THE WORLD I WOULD RATHER BE ON.

MOCHIZUKI IS THE ONLY PROFESSIONAL TO HAVE SEEN THIS AND IS WELL BEYOND THE 22ND CENTURY WHILE THE CULT OF HILBERT REMAINS 100 YEARS BEHIND

>>7978833
>wouldn't even let rotate my rotate my tensor in her Minkowski space

Who is your favorite mathematician?

Pic related

>>7723050
hilbert pls

ITT we solve Hilbert's 23 problems.

Start with number 1

Describe relative positions of ovals originating from a real algebraic curve and as limit cycles of a polynomial vector field on the plane.

Solve for the prize

Question to mathematicians:

What will you do when you won't get that job in academia? Why are we studying pure mathematics if the chances of being a pure mathematics researcher are slim and very under paid?

Biopic when?

>>7280937
:^)

>Physics is too hard for physicists

>>7268574
Polynomials with multiple variables are no longer completely characterized by their roots, but a partial correspondence can be characterized!
Algebraic geometry motherfuckers!

>>7058443
>Hilbert
>remembered for some pop-sci set of "unsolvable" problems
>not remembered for fucking bitches and doing math at the same time
I mean, look at this pimp motherfucker

What is your position on the foundations of mathematics?

Personally I prefer formalism. I argue that mathematics is best understood as a symbolic game. Following Wittgenstein's private language argument it seems to me that you can't separate mathematics from medium in which it is expressed.

Other popular views:
Logicism, mathematics can be reduced to logic.
Intuitionism, mathematics is a series of mental constructs stemming from our analytic a priori intuition of time.

Of the remaining Hilbert & Millenium problems, which do you think will be the next and which do you think will be the last to be solved?

Millenium (unsolved):
P versus NP problem
Hodge conjecture
Riemann hypothesis
Yang–Mills existence and mass gap
Navier–Stokes existence and smoothness
Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture

Hilbert (unsolved.. skipping over Riemann's):
9-Find the most general law of the reciprocity theorem in any algebraic number field.
11-Solving quadratic forms with algebraic numerical coefficients.
12-Extend the Kronecker–Weber theorem on abelian extensions of the rational numbers to any base number field.
13-Solve 7-th degree equation using algebraic (variant: continuous) functions of two parameters.
15-Rigorous foundation of Schubert's enumerative calculus.
16-Describe relative positions of ovals originating from a real algebraic curve and as limit cycles of a polynomial vector field on the plane.
23-Further development of the calculus of variations (fuck you Hilbert)

Is the fact that the mathematic difficulty of physics increases as you try to model reality more accurately due to the fact that mathematics, as a construct of the human mind, is in fact a "program", within which we are tweaking variables, that takes input in a specific language (values of variables in equations / statements in some mathematic language) in an attempt to make the output (our predictions in physics) closer to some arbitrary value (our measurments / reality).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundational_crisis_of_mathematics#Foundational_crisis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del's_incompleteness_theorems
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_physics

tldr: Why is physics mathematical?