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>>8667159
sunlight

>>8667159
Oil.

>>8667159
Sweet, sweet West Virginian coal.

>>8665269
dude like they like memorize the torah and that shit...
memorizing things that have nothing to do whatsoever with your field makes you smarter XD

>>8665269
Japan effect.

Because they literally count every person with a single drop of Jewish blood. Europeans people don't consider American Nobel laureates with their heritage as one of their own.

Also accelerated natural selection among the Ashkenazi who lived in Europe.

It should be thrown out. The entire tiers can be more easily explained like this

"things I know about"
"things I know nothing about"

Apart from the fact it's utterly retarded, what makes it even moree retarded is the fact that Geophysics pops up twice; Geophysics is in both God tier and good tier - why?

>>8668306
Do you think it's possible to make a somewhat accurate and concise chart ranking degrees on their value based on current income, job availability, etc. based on the most recent statistics?

>>8657109
>humans have barely colonized Australia or Canada
What.

>>8657121
We've only colonised a small part of both of those countries.

>>8657124
We choose not to colonize most of those countries. Also it wouldn't make sense considering population size.

aerospace engineering

aerospace engineering?

>>8671238
yes

>>8671200
Definitely yes. Just learn the general formulas, where to apply them, and what they mean.
Once it clicks, calculus is basically plug and check.

>>8671200
Easily. Try Kline.

>>8671200
You need a RIGOROUS but yet EASY book.
I you don't understand something, go back at the basics.

suicide

Maybe try to think more long-term.

>>8667047
Interest, drive, goals, satisfaction. Often, BELIEF in the lie of the positive contribution in a profession; within a business or organization.
And writing is hard, which is why most people can't even punctuate or spell all their words correctly. Our writing also shows people who we are: and this can be scary for insecure people who can't "honestly" feel intelligent, adequate, secure.

not practicing enough

>>8666747
Nature and nurture

>>8666747
Not being born good at it.

I am currently a math major and my two brothers suck at math so like a year ago my dad said he would pay me 20 bucks each weekend if I helped one of my little brothers git gud. I obviously accepted because I don't really mind.

But I am not an asshole. My plan was not to do his homework for him. I came up with really interesting problems for his class. First some obvious ones to be sure he knows the basics, and then some ones that needed some extra reasoning. I gave them to him and he couldn't even do the basic ones.

His method was literally just guess.
>Hey, is that triangle obtuse acute or right?
Umm... obtuse?
>No, not quite. Why did you say obtuse? (I always asked this so that he would explain his reasoning and therefore I could correct the source of his mistake)
Umm... Acute?
>Yes! But why did you first say obtuse?
ACUTE!
ACUTE!

sigh...

>>8666294
I'm afraid I don't know that feel, OP, but you have my condolences.

Calc 2
I did it over the summer
It moves fucking fast
Got so pissed off i got drunk and totaled my car
I have a DUI now
Mfw

>>8666294
>failing calc 2
>drop it
>do it again

It's not that hard, OP. If you actually let all of the fools who have no meaning in their lives other than to satisfy their own egos get to you when they call you silly names then you weren't meant to make it anyway.

>>8671320
thats the dankest press break ive ever seen

>>8671325
it's a wind tunnel

>>8671328
being shaped by a press

they have street smarts. and emotional intelligence

>>8670998
I think anyone who actually puts in effort can learn how to do math. It might take time, you might fail and have to retake classes, but I don't think it's impossible.

For me the biggest designator of smart/not smart is not whether someone is good at math. I mean it's possible that someone took interest in other subjects and decided to study those.

That said I hate more than anything someone who won't even bother to learn something they need to know and they just write it off as "hurr I can't do that I'm bad at math"

>>8670998
>who cannot do math but is still capable of using logic and reasoning in other contexts.


I think that it is reasonable but only b/c said person may have never even tried to learn math above a high school level. And high school level math is often just bad teachers forcing you to memorize a bunch of rules without any type of proof, so logical reasoning doesn't really come into play.

1 is a perfect square

p=1+1...+1

solved

>>8670994
didn't even smirk.. just wondering why you bothered.

>>8670992
Never heard of this particular case. You can probably name them.

But if you are going to name them you better have an important theorem first.

Are there infinitely many primes made up of perfect squares?

>>8670171
proving that the sum of two rationals is rational doesn't prove the sum of three, four or infinite rationals is rational

you can get that the sum of a finite, arbitrary number of rationals is a rational by using induction, but that's it. the sum of an infinite number of rationals is any real number

>>8670181
>proving that the sum of two rationals is rational doesn't prove the sum of three, four or infinite rationals is rational
It proves that the sum of a finite amount of rationals is rational. You are right about the infinite case though. The infinite sum of rationals isn't necessarily rational

>>8670171
your "induction" fails because it shows that approximations for pi using a finite number of terms is rational, which it is.

the reason why it fails is kinda how like f(x+y)=f(x)+f(y) has pathological solutions

>he fell for the spivack meme

>>8670055
>he wants to study a class of functions in R
>he doesn't know what R is and complains when taught
wow

You know you can solve Calculus on a calculator, right? Hell even WolframAlpha can solve it.

BRAINLET
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>>8669991
>calculus
>intuition
here's what you need to do: trash your everything-nice-works-because-all-nice-conditions-are-implicit" "intuition" and try to get some real intuition based on experience. what subject are you having problems with?

Right now im taking linear algebra and diff eq. The proofs in linear are giving me quite a bit of trouble, diff eq im not having too much trouble with. I'm not sure how else to put it. Intuition probably isnt the right word - its more appropriate to say that I havnt had any trouble with maths up until now :/