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I remember when I was around ten that my parents mentioned some Russian who recluded himself for years and solved this huge mathematical problem.
I was ten, so I was thinking of this huge equation, a polynomial of fiftieth degree and five variables, and this wise old autistic Russian who suddenly noticed that this one specific number was a root through means and techniques beyond mortal comprehension.

What did you think real math and science were like when you were little?

>> No.10584403

I didn't know what Dragnet was,we only watched PBS. So I pretty much believed that this is what mathemeticians did and were like and what they did
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJmWPNckrpo

>> No.10584643

>>10584403
>stole the gold out the top of Fort Knox
>how?
>a helicopter
Fucking kek.

>> No.10584847
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10584847

>first learning calculus
>basically think that higher level math and physics just turns into really ridiculous integrals

>> No.10585099

>>10584352
quintic equations are unsolvable though

>> No.10585120

>>10585099
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bring–Jerrard_normal_form

>> No.10585521

>>10585099
>all quintics are unsolvable
>not even non-algebraic, just unsolvable
yes, of course, x^5-32=0 has no real or complex solutions

>> No.10586699

When I was little, I thought math was basically exclusively for rockets and planes with a few physical laws here and there.
I was wrong