Shit undergrads say. >Eeew, real analysis! It's not

>I am an undergraduate

>I'm so hungry

incidentally it's the same thing they'll say even after receiving their pure math degree

>>8381024
>>Eeew, real analysis! It's not even categorical.
>>Grothendieck is easily the greatest mathematician of the 20th century.
>>I'm interested in mathematical logic.

>>8381024
>Eeew, real analysis! It's not even categorical.
If I had a dollar for every undergrad that has actually said this, I wouldn't be making 300k at any job I wanted

>>8381066
that's why you go for a PhD
>any job I want
>300k starting

Shit graduates say.

>I wish I could afford to sustain even a simple lifestyle but unfortunately I am several thousand dollars in debt and I can barely afford food, much less my electricity bill
>I don't like living but I don't want to die

>>8381173

shit undergraduates say:
"that's why you go for phd. any job i want, 300k starting"

>>8381229
you know, i would never commit sudoku now but i've always thought that if there had been a software install process for being born such that i had to click "OK" and accept life's EULA etc. before continuing that i would've clicked cancel without hesitation, at least knowing what i know now.

>i'm a faggot

>I love real analysis, it's the height of mathematics!
>(Cauchy/Erdös/Tao/Newton) is the greatest mathematician in history!
>I'm interested in... uh... I can calculate lots of integrals!!

>>8381278
integrals are more useful than the jerk-off crap you do though

>Real analysis is the hardest math class
They actually say this.

>>8381283
>thinking I care about utility
Bitch I'm as useless as a poet. I know this and do not try to convince people otherwise.

>>8381283

yes everyone knows that engineers spend their days solving difficult integrals

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>I want to be a professor when I finish

Don't we all chum

No one comes close to Grothendieck though

>>8381024
Have fun with your outdated set-theoretical framework, gramps. Nothing you do will be relevant in 30 years.

Beginning of freshman year
>"I think I am gonna get my phd"

>I'm gonna have better job opportunities than an engineer

>>8381453
Poincare, Hilbert

>>8381066

Underrated post

>>8381453
what about Mochizuki

>>8381024
>>I'm interested in mathematical logic.
That's me in freshman year. Doing a PhD in it now, u mad?

>>8381507
Weil, Cartan, and Serre don't get enough love either. Any fan of Grothendieck ought to hold them in high regard, too.

>>8381453
Them >>8381507 and Kolmogorov

Grothedieck is a wildly overrated narrow specialist in highly specific abstract algebraic branches.

Loved mostly for his non-scientific contributions, just like your pop-sci heroes.

>>8381239
>you are born into a social contract
>you don't consent to this

Society is a spook

>>8381234
it's only a maymay, muy friendo.

>>8381437
>Don't we all chum
Not even remotely.

>>8382059
This. It's like the only sane response to such a broken world is total sociopathic self-advancement.
Only to find out that the sociopaths are actually running the asylum

>>8381024
They make stupid threads about shit undergrads say.

>this makes sense

>>8381024
Fucking this

>>8382053
>Grothedieck is a wildly overrated narrow specialist in highly specific abstract algebraic branches.

He was a specialist for the most part, but he had such a wide vision for algebraic geometry that it sort of "spilled over" into other areas. He practically invented n-category theory.