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>brb Laplace Transforms junior year of hs

>> No.2810475

>>2810438
I don't know what this has to do with the unabomber, but I was doing laplace transforms junior year as well. nothing special.

>> No.2810501

Err, you retarded?

Dude had a PhD in Math and was teaching at Berkley at the age of 25.

>Laplace transforms
>Jr year
>Not Impressive
>/Sci/

>> No.2810528

I'm jelly, the American math education system sucks balls, I could've started doing calculus in freshman year but the rest of my peers were too busy derping it up in geometry

>> No.2810540

>>2810528
And where does the extra help go? To the retards.

Fucking egalitarians.

>> No.2810547

>>2810501
Your point? What does that have to do with laplace transforms? Laplace transforms themselves during junior year in hs are not particularly impressive.

>> No.2810549

>>2810528

>Implying you finished geometry, algebra 2, precalculus before grade 9
>Implying you don't go to community college right now

>> No.2810552

>>2810540
seriously, I should've gone to a magnet school or something... I feel like I wasted my entire time in high school

>> No.2810561

>>2810540
Yeah fuck school I learn more on my own...

>> No.2810572

>>2810549
I don't go to community college, I go to a pretty high-tier college (but not as high-tier as I expected I'm now learning, talk about grade inflation) I'm just saying a lot of concepts could have been taught earlier. I was legitimately smarter than my 8th grade algebra teacher, she didn't understand the concept of substitution

>> No.2810595

>>2810547

Considering the vast majority (read 99.99999%) of US students do not get to Calculus BC (Calc II) by senior year, I'd say its pretty impressive.

>> No.2810604

I think it's pretty hilarious how much undergrads seem to care about how early they finished introductory calculus. As though it makes any difference whether you learned about Laplace transforms as a high school junior or as a college sophomore.

>> No.2810605

>>2810595
did you go to school in ameriderp? if so I'm guessing it was a magnet school

>> No.2810638

>>2810595
It's literally one integral the happens to be extremely useful. If you can do integration by parts then you can do laplace transforms. If I was able to teach it to myself by junior year (and I don't consider myself particularly intelligent), then I struggle to see why he would have had a hard time with them.

>> No.2810640

>>2810605

I don't get what your saying. I went to a magnet school? Or Kaczynski did?

He learned them himself apparently.

>>2810604

I was just pointing out that he is a genius. And it does make a difference usually how early you are exposed to material. It makes a huge difference, as earlier exposure gives more time for mastery and exposure to higher level material. Not everyone can handle early exposure to calculus though as it goes over their heads or they are simply too intimidated by it.

>> No.2810681

>>2810638
>Advanced Laplace transforms

Plus he was doing PDEs sophomore year. I envy his math talents, that's all. Shame he eventually became so jaded.

>> No.2810703

>>2810640
I don't disagree that he was a genius, and it's certainly unusual for a high school junior to have learned how to solve ordinary differential equations with Laplace transforms. What I'm talking about is the pissing contest that people always have about "HURR DURR I LEARNED CALC WHEN I WAS ONLY 15, YOU LEARNED IT WHEN YOU WERE 18 SO I MUST BE A GENIUS COMPARED TO YOU LOL" and shit like that. In the long run, a three year difference in when a certain topic in mathematics is learned doesn't have much impact on your abilities. Sure, your friends in college will think you're a genius. But in the real world, where people have been doing all of this stuff for decades, it doesn't mean anything.

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You are now aware that Saul Kripke was his roommate at Harvard

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