/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.12199976]

The smartest people don't need prizes.

[Anonymous No.12200005]

mushroom picker sounds like a slur lol

[Anonymous No.12200065]

>>12199976
Wasn't it Feynmann that once said that "the real award is in the excitement of the discovery itself"... while simultaneously accepting the awards though.

[Anonymous No.12200094]

Recognizing valuable work doesn't solely benefit the individual getting recognized, especially for something like science where there isn't really much bringing high-profile research to the eyes of the public. Regardless, you probably wouldn't have heard of Perelman or spend time praising his ability had it not been for him being offered the Fields medal.

[Anonymous No.12200124]

>>12200065
there's a documentary in which Feynman intensely expresses his disdain and disgust for awards such as the nobel prize. It goes along the lines of "these people that sit in a room around a table discussing who we should deem worthy of our acknowledgment ". He expresses it with so much disgust. It is glorious. This is where he says >>12200065 as well. Feynman is srsly my fucking hero hands down. I swear to god Rick from rick and morty is based on Feynman. Except Rick is a total faggot and Feynman is based as fuck.

[Anonymous No.12200136]

>>12199976
The smartest people don't need to be smart

[Anonymous No.12200141]

>>12200124
Then why didn't he turn down the award like how Brando turned down his Oscar while trolling the award ceremony? I think he was just virtue signalling for attention.

[Anonymous No.12200152]

>>12200141
I don't fucking know know Feynman and can not speak for him. What i can say is the disgust he expressed while talking down the nobel prize and all the faggots involved in choosing who gets it was as authentic and sincere as it gets. And considering obama got 1 for literally god damn nothing, i'd have to agree.

[Anonymous No.12200158]

refusing the glory of a fields medal and 1 million dollar prize from clay is pretty much godtier

[Anonymous No.12200159]

>>12200136
this

[Anonymous No.12200164]

>>12200136
this

[Anonymous No.12200338]

>>12200005
Fpbp

[Anonymous No.12200494]

>>12200141
Feynman actually wanted to refuse Nobel prize. So he asked it to the his familiar journalist. But that journalist said 'you would be much more popular if you refuse prize. So receive it unless you want to be like that'. Then Feynman followed this advice.

He's absolutely right. Perelman's popularity came from mostly his refuse on Fields medal.

[Anonymous No.12200504]

Rejecting an award is just a less humble way of accepting it.

[Anonymous No.12200533]

>>12199976
It could help me not to be forced into solving the money problem before I develop my other project. Though I'm not a mathematician.

[Anonymous No.12200540]

I got an award for my master thesis. Only $500 but still.

[Anonymous No.12200567]

>>12200158
Refusing a million dollar prize while living off your mum's pension is pretty much cunt-tier.

[Anonymous No.12200590]

>>12200567
Actually it's madlad based tier.

[Anonymous No.12200609]

>>12200141
He's autistic, he doesn't understand social dynamics

[Anonymous No.12200720]

>>12199976
play stupid games
win stupid prizes

[Anonymous No.12200764]

>>12200540
based ghostwriter

[Anonymous No.12200823]

>>12199976
I hope one day some anon posts groundbreaking science or math to totally upend even the identity recognition part of discovery.

[Anonymous No.12200854]

>>12200823
Well that kind of happened

[Anonymous No.12200878]

>>12200823
What about Tooker?
probably the smartest poster here

[Anonymous No.12200880]

>>12200823
4chan noble prize when?

[Anonymous No.12200957]

>>12200136
>implying Perelman is homeless
>Implying he doesn't live rent free at his mother's house

famous star ftw

[Anonymous No.12200966]

>>12200065
He literally rejected the Nobel Prize in physics

[Anonymous No.12201081]

>>12199976
>be famous mathematician and one of the smartest people alive
>still no chance of passing on his genes

[Anonymous No.12201099]

>>12200494
But it wasn't about fame. He was passionately against the idea of the prize so he should have followed his conviction.

[Anonymous No.12201306]

>>12200854
>>12200878
wait what happened. I vaguely know of Tooker

[Anonymous No.12201316]

>>12200504
What does this mean?

[Anonymous No.12201321]

>>12201081
He will pass on his memes

[Anonymous No.12201325]

>>12201306
Tooker is a shizo. Some actual anon did this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superpermutation..

[Anonymous No.12201359]

>>12200494
cool story. source?

[Anonymous No.12201365]

>>12201306
He invented infinity. With a hat. Totally worth some prize. Not sure about the nobel but Fields for sure.

[Anonymous No.12201368]

>>12200065
>the real award is the friends we made along the way

[Anonymous No.12201396]

>>12200823
if I ever solve a popular math problem, I’ll post it as anon

[Anonymous No.12201516]

>>12200823
math is racist and going forward all recognition in mathematics will go to whoever hired the most diverse research group

[Anonymous No.12201523]

>>12201516
Ok Rabbi

[Anonymous No.12201804]

>>12200966
Wrong.

[Anonymous No.12202064]

>>12199976
I'd like to meet that guy someday

[Anonymous No.12202356]

>>12199976
no, but they need enough to have a home and eat. most smart people do their work out of passion, for the reward of finding an answer itself, not for any prize. however, some recognition or prizes could be nice, especially if they needed it economically. why look a gift a horse in the mouth? plus you could use the resources to go on and do other things or help others.

[Anonymous No.12202378]

>>12200878
He is one of the smartest identified posters on the board, and maybe the smartest overall. His physics ideas have potential, and his RH commentary is noteworthy, even if it is outside the scope of the traditional problem, which ironically was proven true by another 4 chan user.

[Anonymous No.12203162]

>>12200878

[Anonymous No.12203473]

>>12199976
The prizeiest people don't need smarts?

[Anonymous No.12204837]

>>12200005
bich!

[Anonymous No.12205343]

>>12200152
The peace prize is not administered the same way as the other prizes

[Anonymous No.12205366]

>>12205343
Oh you mean a panel of old Scandinavian liberals don’t choose it based on virtue signalling of the moment?

[Anonymous No.12205405]

>>12200065
Based Feynmann didn't even know who the snownigger Alfred Nobel was. To him the Nobel prize was awarded for a discovery that the Swedish academy deemed "nobel".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f61KMw5zVhg

[Anonymous No.12205969]

bump

[Anonymous No.12206865]

>>12205405
that's it, that's the documentary hell ya. man i looked for that a while ago and couldnt find it. +1 internetz to you sir thank you.

[Anonymous No.12207813]

>>12205366
No they don't, and when people who blatantly don't deserve it are awarded one - e.g. Henry Kissinger - they'll often quit the panel.

[El Arcón No.12207935]

It's not that Perelman didn't want the Prize, it's that he was protesting against Hamilton being excluded from the prize. It's like if Hairer turned down the $3M for stealing the MCM unit cell from me in protest of me not receiving the prize with him. It's a lot different than that too because Perelman actually carried Hamilton's work forward and made his own original contributions while Hairer has only pointless dressed my idea in jargon, advancing it not at all, but calling it a "regularity structure" instead of a cosmological unit cell.

[El Arcón No.12207938]

>>12207935
>calling it a "regularity structure" instead of a cosmological unit cell.
What Mochi stole and calls a Hodge theater.

[El Arcón No.12207950]

>>12207935
>calling it a "regularity structure" instead of a cosmological unit cell.
What Mochi stole and calls a Hodge theater.

[El Arcón No.12207956]

What Weinstein stole and calls geometric unity.

[El Arcón No.12207969]

What Wilczek didn't steal but calls time crystals in a deliberate attempt to act like he's talking about something other than my idea. What basically everyone who ever saw tried to steal from me except everyone who I ask to publish it who all tell me it's worthless garbage.