you seem to be missing this idea that mathematics must be doable alone, individually
this appears to be what sets mathematics appart from science? I mean, it's not like Euler, or Poincaré, and so on, are really there with you when "doing math"
point being, mathematics is not a team game. but everything else is??
When I'm teaching congruence or the Gauss method to solve equation systems, I tell my students: "You can solve the midterm alone or with the ghost of Gauss sit on the side chair."
I like that. "Standing on the shoulder of giants" is a fairly common way to phrase this, and it captures truth as well, but "on a team with the greatest mathematicians of history" is pretty fun too.
Pity I'm by far the weakest link in such team-ups. :)
Ah I never changed from old.reddit, I am sure the current version is entirely unrecognisable. It throws me sometimes when a comment mentions a users pfp, because wtf? Reddit doesn't have user profiles with pictures.
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you seem to be missing this idea that mathematics must be doable alone, individually
this appears to be what sets mathematics appart from science? I mean, it's not like Euler, or Poincaré, and so on, are really there with you when "doing math"
point being, mathematics is not a team game. but everything else is??
When I'm teaching congruence or the Gauss method to solve equation systems, I tell my students: "You can solve the midterm alone or with the ghost of Gauss sit on the side chair."
I like that. "Standing on the shoulder of giants" is a fairly common way to phrase this, and it captures truth as well, but "on a team with the greatest mathematicians of history" is pretty fun too.
Pity I'm by far the weakest link in such team-ups. :)
Sorry, it’s early, and I can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic. I hope you are? Mathematics is very much a team game.
i think based on the username they seem to be looking for validation through upvotes. Perhaps assuming this place is like a nerdier reddit.
actually, reddit is a mainstream hacker news
to me old.reddit.com will always be reddit.com
Ah I never changed from old.reddit, I am sure the current version is entirely unrecognisable. It throws me sometimes when a comment mentions a users pfp, because wtf? Reddit doesn't have user profiles with pictures.