/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.14771735]

>Since then I've had the chance, in the world of mathematics that bid me welcome, to meet quite a number of people, both among my "elders" and among young people in my general age group, who were much more brilliant, much more "gifted" than I was. I admired the facility with which they picked up, as if at play, new ideas, juggling them as if familiar with them from the cradle—while for myself I felt clumsy, even oafish, wandering painfully up an arduous track, like a dumb ox faced with an amorphous mountain of things that I had to learn (so I was assured), things I felt incapable of understanding the essentials or following through to the end. Indeed, there was little about me that identified the kind of bright student who wins at prestigious competitions or assimilates, almost by sleight of hand, the most forbidding subjects.

[Anonymous No.14771766]

Wow he's literally me

[Anonymous No.14773271]

>>14771766
no he is literally me

[Anonymous No.14773274]

>>14771766
>>14773271
you all are me

[Anonymous No.14773277]

>>14771735
>Meanwhile in reality he casually rediscovered the lebesgue measure and integral whilst fucking around for the lolz
Yeah sure thing bud

[Anonymous No.14773280]

>>14773277
source?

[Anonymous No.14773304]

>>14771735
Fake quote

[Anonymous No.14773317]

for every million geniuses, there are actually 999,999 midwits with charisma, and one genius

[Anonymous No.14773337]

>>14773280
Literally just read his wikipedia page or any article detailing his life
Gröthendick was a mega genius, nigh inhuman

[Anonymous No.14773772]

>>14773277
>>14773337
Grothendieck was distinguishing his approach from his peers here.

[Anonymous No.14773779]

Its often possible to solve math problems by using cleverness, but he was willing to invent a book of math just to solve one problem.

[Anonymous No.14773782]

>Par la suite, j’ai eu l’occasion, dans ce monde des mathématiciens qui m’accueillait, de rencontrer bien des gens, aussi bien des aînés que des jeunes gens plus ou moins de mon âge, qui visiblement étaient beaucoup plus brillants, beaucoup plus "doués" que moi. Je les admirais pour la facilité avec laquelle ils apprenaient, comme en se jouant, des notions nouvelles, et jonglaient avec comme s’ils les connaissaient depuis leur berceau - alors que je me sentais lourd et pataud, me frayant un chemin péniblement, comme une taupe, à travers une montagne informe de choses qu’il était important (m’assurait-on) que j’apprenne, et dont je me sentais incapable de saisir les tenants et les aboutissants. En fait, je n’avais rien de l’étudiant brillant, passant haut la main les concours prestigieux, assimilant en un tournemain des programmes prohibitifs.

>La plupart de mes camarades plus brillants sont d’ailleurs devenus des mathématiciens compétents et réputés. Pourtant, avec le recul de trente ou trente-cinq ans, je vois qu’ils n’ont pas laissé sur la mathématique de notre temps une empreinte vraiment profonde. Ils ont fait des choses, des belles choses parfois, dans un contexte déjà tout fait, auquel ils n’auraient pas songé à toucher. Ils sont restés prisonniers sans le savoir de ces cercles invisibles et impérieux, qui délimitent un Univers dans un milieu et à une époque donnée. Pour les franchir, il aurait fallu qu’ils retrouvent en eux cette capacité qui était leur à leur naissance, tout comme elle était mienne : la capacité d’être seul.

[Anonymous No.14773801]

>>14773782
I dont speak baguette

[Anonymous No.14773805]

>>14773782
Wow c'est littéralement moi

[Anonymous No.14773813]

>>14773805
non c'est littéralement moi

[Anonymous No.14773919]

>>14771735
>I felt incapable of understanding the essentials

Whoa. In fact I know professors who understands everything.

[Anonymous No.14773921]

>>14771735
>I felt incapable of understanding the essentials

Whoa. In fact I know professors who understand everything.

[Anonymous No.14774381]

>>14771735
I can learn things very quick but i am still dumb. It takes a different kind of intelligence to solve advanced problems and see the solutions others can't see.

[Anonymous No.14776745]

>>14773277

He was self-taught as a boy, because he and his mother had to move around a good deal in order to avoid going into the oven. He re-invented the wheel on a few different things, without knowing it yet.

[Anonymous No.14777693]

>>14773805
(: