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9151013 No.9151013 [Reply] [Original]

>tfw you realize that it's impossible to be a decent mathematician unless you were a child prodigy
Literally anybody with a three digit IQ can be an experimental scientist or a code monkey. But the really interesting stuff is inaccessible to us brainlets. We will never truly understand mathematics the way that Gauss or Ramunujan did. They are gods in comparison to the average man.

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>>9151013
>>tfw you realize that it's impossible to be a decent mathematician unless you were a child prodigy
Wrong.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-path-less-taken-to-the-peak-of-the-math-world-20170627/

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>>9151013
I was never good at math in undergrad so I never pursued it but I turned out ok

>> No.9151027

>>9151015
>As a teenager he dreamed of becoming a poet
This is me.

>> No.9151028

>>9151015
he was a math prodigy. just didnt do math.

>> No.9151030

>>9151028
>In psychology research literature, the term child prodigy is defined as a person under the age of ten who produces meaningful output in some domain to the level of an adult expert performer
He wasn't a child prodigy.

>> No.9151050

>>9151030
but he had the ability.

>BTFO

>> No.9151053

>>9151050
>produces meaningful output

>> No.9151061

>>9151050
The article says he got mediocre grades in school. I assume that includes math.

>> No.9151407

>>9151061
>mediocre grades
Like grades mean anything. I bet he was an actual "tfw smart but lazy" fag.

>> No.9151430

>>9151407
ofc he was, he wanted to do science journalism. wtf is that.

>> No.9151479

>>9151013
Speak for yourself. Us average folks are perfectly capable of advancing mathematics at an average rate. If you are so incapable of contributing anything of value that you are apparently only good for writing code and performing experiments, you aren't average. You're a below average brainlet who thinks he is average and speaks for the majority.