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10770996

Anonymous Mon Jul 1 09:09:17 2019 No.10770996 [Reply] [Original]

Is there a job where you do nothing but solve combinatorics problems all day?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 1 09:11:27 2019 No.10770999 Tutoring

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 1 09:44:14 2019 No.10771053 since factorials are just prime decompositions it's probably being a number theorist

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 1 10:23:26 2019 No.10771136 File: 29 KB, 355x499, 23E94E6F-B27B-45D4-BEC0-E4ABF877E4C3.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10770996 No lie that sounds like a based fucking job if it exists. I would want that job. Also posting a chad book

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 1 10:25:02 2019 No.10771140 File: 81 KB, 500x686, mods-are-asleep-post-confused-looking-anime-girls-with-question-2668527.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10771053 >since factorials are just prime decompositions

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 1 10:26:00 2019 No.10771145 To many n values for me.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 1 10:26:03 2019 No.10771146 >>10770996 >Is there a job where you do nothing but solve combinatorics problems all day? Combinatorialist

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 1 10:27:43 2019 No.10771150 File: 48 KB, 192x240, BA7E6D65-63A5-406C-B9A1-999B2E425E3D.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] If Tim Gowers wasn’t a statusmaxxed mathematician would he still have a wife?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 1 10:28:31 2019 No.10771152 >>10770996 If you are a game designer for a gambling website then your job is quite literally doing combinatorics.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 1 10:29:12 2019 No.10771153 >>10771150 He had creepy hobbies.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 1 10:30:24 2019 No.10771157 >>10770996 >Is there a job where you do nothing but solve combinatorics problems all day? Being Hungarian?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 1 10:34:40 2019 No.10771166 >>10770996 Textbook writing

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 1 17:40:11 2019 No.10772119 >>10770996 Unironically being a combinatorialist or most parts of theoretical computer science. Usually people who do one do the other. Source: read papers and look up who wrote them

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 1 20:42:47 2019 No.10772592 dont you find this shit boring? if not, why?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 2 02:20:44 2019 No.10773134 >>10772592 Have you never read analytic combinatorics by Flajolet and Sedgewick, Combinatorial Problems and Exercises by Lovasz, or anything like that? Combinatorics is exciting dude

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 2 09:40:35 2019 No.10773574 >>10770996 Create a software startup or a video game that uses combinatorics

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 2 12:23:32 2019 No.10773770 >>10772592 Only brainlets cant understand or appreciate combinatorics

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 2 14:05:25 2019 No.10773912 >>10773134 my jewish russian professor ruined the subject for me.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 2 14:08:21 2019 No.10773914 >>10773134 >>10773770 All kinds of problem types get old after a while.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 2 14:35:45 2019 No.10773959 i wish i was smart enough for combinatorics :(