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Anonymous Mon Dec 4 21:30:54 2017 No.9343552 [Reply] [Original]

Comp sci student here.
ow can people get excited to learn advanced math?
I mean, math is the foundation of 99% of technology, so its pretty important I guess. But the thing is, the more advanced/higher you go, the larger the diminishing returns and the gap with real world applications.
How can you get excited over something that most likely will never be applied in an useful way and it will only be used to circlejerk with peers? Not trying to offend or sound like a jerk, genuine question.

Anonymous Mon Dec 4 21:39:15 2017 No.9343570
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>>9343552
>gap with real world applications

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
>he fell for adv math has no application meme
>he doesn't know about its unreasonable effectiveness

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 4 21:40:48 2017 No.9343575 I think being in an increasingly smaller subset of people who understand an advanced topic can be exciting. And even if the knowledge has only a nuanced application at best, it still can be applied. Having a rare skillset is valuable. Like COBOL.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 4 21:46:12 2017 No.9343588 File: 287 KB, 836x1065, 1455310679806.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9343552 >Comp sci student here. The >>>/g/hetto is that way.

Anonymous Mon Dec 4 21:55:05 2017 No.9343609

>>9343552
Oliver Hardy wrote a famous essay about how he was so glad that none of his mathematical work had any "practical" uses.
He was dead wrong.
What could be more abstract than prime number theory or higher-dimensional geometry? But the Internet wouldn't work, your credit card number couldn't be transmitted with reasonable safety, and computers would be unreliable without those topics.
Bernard Riemann toyed with non-Euclidian geometry and produced _exactly_ the tool Einstein needed for General Relativity.
Topology, Galois theory, you name it.
Try reading some books by Ian Stewart. The must unexpected things turn out to be "useful" -- even essential. Why do you think Bell Labs and Google and Microsoft hire "pure" mathematicians?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 4 21:59:04 2017 No.9343623 File: 455 KB, 640x480, 1403606909026.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9343588 >he really believes /g/ has anything to do with computer science

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 4 22:51:31 2017 No.9343753 File: 36 KB, 778x599, bursting lel.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9343623 >computer >science

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 5 00:58:18 2017 No.9343973 >>9343552 Since you are from CS, it is most likely you haven't come close to anything that is actual relevant modern math in 2017. So what are we talking about here? Graphs and algorithm complexity? /sci/ is really trash tier nowadays.

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