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>>8873916
I don't know about you but if you can't dedicate yourself into your field that well, you will never make it.

It's not only about the brain but also about the dedication, if all of the people you mentioned were not dedicated to their respective focused fields, they would have done some other things and never do something amazing with their intelligence, see arts and philosophy.

But IMO, if you couldn't do anything in your lifetime despite being dedicated as fuck, at least you could try to make your kids enjoy math at an early age, like when a father does something and the kid loves him, the little one will imitate their father a lot, etc.
If you cannot be great, at least make your kid great, since notice that most of these geniouses parents were already into that but not that famous like you believe you will become, but look at what they did "made", a bunch of influential geniouses that made a fuckton of things.

So don't feel like shit, instead of spending your time being like this, start doing and stop thinking like that.
Because once you are worryfree about this, you will enjoy math and science a lot more and you may not even realize later on that you made a revolutionary contribution, all of this because you dedicated yourself to that science, just like them waifufags at certain places on 4chan are dedicated to their (cute) waifus.

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>How do you deal the fact that you will forever be an absolute brainlet, an amoeba, in comparison to Einstein, Euler, Gauss, etc?

I don't care. Maturity means accepting that you won't be one of the great heroes of the world...but you can still have some fun. I study what I study because even if there were nothing left to discover, no stones left unturned, no fame to be won, I would still do it. If I lived in some universe in which all scientific and mathematical inquiry had passed on to super intelligent machines, I would still study, I would have some fun and see if I could keep up.

>>8873965
I guess you're right. I'm being unrealistic, arrogant, and selfish really.

>>8873811
Get fucked, four eyes

His language is so pretentious. He calls it "clown" language and then vemently defends himself on every message board.

Like hell I'm going to sad sack of shit going to give this guy the time of day

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>>8873849
Did you just insult the greatest man alive? You will regret this.

*sharp image

How come you can't sees any stars in the background?

>>8873605
>How come you can't sees any stars in the background?

http://www.iflscience.com/space/why-can-t-we-see-stars-in-space-photographs/

>>8873504
Apostol / Spivak
unless you never learned and you don't want to actually review? just memorize or whatever? in that case steward or something

I don't really like Spivak, and I don't really understand the american autism towards this book, like it's holy or something. It will take you 1.000 years to solve all the exercises, because none of them are trivial. But if you like a challenge, sure, go for it.

I'd go with Apostol or one of the russian books I forgot the name, they're pretty good too.

>>8873514
I did first year calc in the past, single variable differentiation, integration, infinite series etc. I have to finish a second year calc course covering differential equations and other series things, so I feel I need a fairly good grasp of the material.

>>8873276
that thumbnail looks like a dried up sperm on my screen.

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>>8873286
make sure to lick it clean

>>8873286
It's hebrew, it means number 6.

Good question. It probably is. But is a gender of an animal a spectrum as well? Can my dog be trans?

they quite literally are a spectrum. taxonomy is not as precise of a model as population genetics.

>>8873258
Not really animal species, the definition here is rigid: the ability to produce fertile offspring.

What intrigues me more is bacteria species, since they reproduce by simply dividing, there are no real "parents". Additionally, bacteria can exchange genes during their lifetimes with completely different species of bacteria through plasmids, transposons and general uptake of DNA. How the fuck are species defined among bacteria? Any microbiologist or just a well educated person here to answer?

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>>8873147
We have inborn knowledge, when you see a stick on the ground, probably your first instinct is to grab it
Any other animal just wouldn't, they would walk by it without even pay attention, but not humans. It's a basic instinct of humans to manipulate and create tools, inborn knowledge is so subtle that no one really notices it.

>>8873164
I'm not arguing that we don't, just wondering how much research has been put into this.

>>8873147
Let's make an assumption that learning a new skill or a behavior = making certain synaptic connections in the central nervous system.

Natural selection favors those individuals or populations that learn a skill faster than others, as new skill -> increased chance to survive -> more offspring. Selection favors those that can make those certain synaptic connections at a younger age.

Eventually individuals that have those synaptic connections "hard-wired" will have the most advantage, as they don't need to spend time and resources to learn that skill. All they need is a key stimulus to launch that certain behavior.

In order to make math genius babies there should be selection for math skills. Let only the talented ones make more babies.

it just werks

>>8869783
This should be o-on nsfw....

Problem solving is on a spectrum.

Also maybe I lucked out cause I didn't experience any major side effects like being unable to sleep or loss of appetite. I also would exercise regularly and meditate daily. Only annoying side effect was that they would make me smell like shit because of the sweat.

>>8867376
You'll be sorry when you die at 50

>>8867376
What is this? Adderal?

>>8866278
>Tesla anything but great
>Newton anything but Ancient Creator
kys

>>8866278

It's not a competition.

>>8866281
Do you not realize ALL mathematical thought stems from Archimedes?

>>8874918
Count the number of fruits, brainlet.

>>8874918
Define an object, call it a multi-fruit and denote it [math] M [/math]. Then [math] M = a + O [/math] where a is the "apple part" and O is the "Orange part".

Fruit is a spectrum, you bigoted brainlet.

>>8874860
If the gases can make a balloon rise far enough up to not be a problem, then the gases would rise that far up on their own, as well.

>>8874860
Because the air still ends up in the atmosphere, twit. Also, big enough bags are less than implausible.

>>8874860


its dumb but it just might work.

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>>8874594
Thanks! Have a mildly aesthetic picture

>>8874619
You're welcome :)
If you have something to add to the list, tell me

>>8874594
bump

Shameless self bump

>>8874463

Read an intro to programming book and do the exercises like "C++: How to Program". It will eventually click.

>>8874463
>>8874490
Dude, you're just in the 2nd page, calm down.

Anyway, I don't have any experience on programming and shit like that but you should ask on /g/ as well.
Make a thread there or search on the respective programming threads so they may help you.
But I don't guarantee it.

And /sci/ will help you soon, see >>8874496
however remember this board is kind of slow but sadly it's a little faster because of the shitposting about Nye.

>>8874281
Because of field specific technicalities, you FUCKING. BITCH.

All math can be reduced to philosophy which can in turn be reduced to English.

So, why do people study anything other than English?

>>8874281
People claim science can be reduced to math but I'm as to how. How would you make a scientific breakthrough just be doing math alone?