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Anonymous Sun Jul 1 23:42:56 2012 No.4826722 [Reply] [Original]

Is it possible to become a math overlord all by yourself? (No college, teachers, etc.)

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 1 23:43:55 2012 No.4826723 >>4826722 Yes. Galois Ramanujan Grothendieck Noether Do it. Faggot *Extreme dedication and effort and time required.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 1 23:44:10 2012 No.4826730 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C4%81dhava_of_Sa%C3%B1gam%C4%81grama Its possible but very difficult. Most math is too abstract to comprehend without the help of a teacher who can explain it with English. There are a few exceptions (link related).

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 1 23:57:41 2012 No.4826767 I tried, I mastered calculus and then I got frustrated as fuck and decided to go back to school doing math

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 1 23:59:40 2012 No.4826771 Well, all the great mathematicians were self-taught, considering nobody could teach them things they discovered. Pythagoras Euclid Archimedes Euler Gauss Leibniz Cauchy Greatest mathematicians of all time, and were for a large part self-taughyt

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 2 00:04:41 2012 No.4826775 >>4826730 What is an example of a topic in math that is "too abstract"?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 2 00:07:10 2012 No.4826780 >>4826775 depends on the person really group theory for me

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 2 00:09:11 2012 No.4826786 so create your own math system?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 2 00:10:10 2012 No.4826788 File: 6 KB, 248x251, 1339557955019.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4826786 there is only one math system, there are just different ways of representing values

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 2 00:13:55 2012 No.4826795 shout out to george green that nigga never even left his dad's mill

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 2 00:15:27 2012 No.4826796 I taught my self up to calculus 2.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 2 00:17:11 2012 No.4826799 >>4826722 Maybe go with physics, follow something like this. At least it will seem like you are learning something, other than crunching numbers http://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~hooft101/theorist.html

Anonymous Mon Jul 2 00:21:10 2012 No.4826807

>>4826775

Discrete Math gets really fucking hard once you start delving into it beyond an intro course.

I took it as an elective course for my math minor and thought it was pretty interesting as a 300 level course. Looked into some topics a little further on my own once the semester ended and it was very hard to make any progress without someone there to break everything down; concepts just got too involved beyond the shallow level that was presented in our course. Discrete geometry would be pretty damn interesting to take as a formal course though.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 2 00:24:26 2012 No.4826812 >>4826807 What is discrete math?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 2 00:45:10 2012 No.4826860 >>4826812 In a sense... Programming math.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 2 01:35:40 2012 No.4826978 >>4826860 Wat?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 2 02:16:40 2012 No.4827075 >>4826860 Theres a lot more to it than analyzing, studying, and making logical conclusions about computations (if thats what you meant). a LOT more

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