Should I be worried if I don't find anything particularly

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2017-03-01 12:43:12 Post No. 8711947
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Anonymous 2017-03-01 12:43:12 Post No. 8711947 [Report]

Should I be worried if I don't find anything particularly remarkable about theorems or proofs that my textbooks tell me are "beautiful"?

e.g. Hardy, in A Mathematician's Apology, says "It will be clear by now that, if we are to have any chance of making progress, I must produce example of ‘real’ mathematical theorems, theorems which every mathematician will admit to be first-rate"
These two theorems and their proofs are the infinitude of the primes and the irrationality of the square root of 2. All I can think is... "okay... I guess that's kinda cool?" I cannot conjure up the genuine feelings that these really are interesting results, let alone "beautiful" or "first-rate."

Anonymous 2017-03-01 12:47:51 Post No.8711954
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Anonymous 2017-03-01 12:47:51 Post No.8711954 [Report]

>>8711947
No, people have different tastes. I am only truly interested in theorems with geometric significance.

Anonymous 2017-03-01 12:55:23 Post No.8711966
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>>8711947
My strong impression is that you havent found the right theorem yet. But keep looking ;D

Anonymous 2017-03-01 01:48:36 Post No.8712122
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>>8711947

I never found any straight up proofs to be "beautiful"

Really I've never had much fun with math without using a computer. Using a computer you can always pull a fractal out of your ass with pretty much everything you can think of.

> Iterated function systems
> bitwise fractals
> julia sets
> attractors
> systems involving addition and prime factorization
> space filling curves
> cellular automata
> newton fractals
> LFSRs

Anonymous 2017-03-01 02:03:36 Post No.8712146
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Anonymous 2017-03-01 02:03:36 Post No.8712146 [Report]

>>8711947
there's a reason why abstract math is not a popular pursuit

Anonymous 2017-03-01 02:08:24 Post No.8712152
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Anonymous 2017-03-01 02:08:24 Post No.8712152 [Report]

>>8711947
t. not INTP
you will never be a true mathematician

Anonymous 2017-03-01 02:20:30 Post No.8712177
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Anonymous 2017-03-01 02:20:30 Post No.8712177 [Report]

>>8712122
What do you use to plot them?

Anonymous 2017-03-01 02:22:29 Post No.8712182
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Anonymous 2017-03-01 02:22:29 Post No.8712182 [Report]

>>8712122
Creating and looking at pretty pictures isn't math.

Anonymous 2017-03-01 02:27:19 Post No.8712197
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Anonymous 2017-03-01 02:27:19 Post No.8712197 [Report]

>>8712177

depends

SDL gives you an easy window with a drawpixel(r,g,b,x,y) command

other times I use OpenGL

>>8712182

-t. chain rule master

Anonymous 2017-03-01 02:28:36 Post No.8712199
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>>8711947
Having the creativity to know how to apply them is really all you should care about.

Anonymous 2017-03-01 02:37:23 Post No.8712217
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Anonymous 2017-03-01 02:37:23 Post No.8712217 [Report]

>>8711947
Probably better to move on to a different field then, OP.

Anonymous 2017-03-01 02:44:33 Post No.8712231
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Anonymous 2017-03-01 02:44:33 Post No.8712231 [Report]

>>8712197
Damn, that's cool. I'm taking Geometry this semester, what would you recommend? (projective geometry, euclidean geometry, affine spaces,... stuff)

Anonymous 2017-03-01 02:49:16 Post No.8712240
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Anonymous 2017-03-01 02:49:16 Post No.8712240 [Report]

>>8712231

I've never taken geometry at that level

Anonymous 2017-03-01 02:51:31 Post No.8712244
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Anonymous 2017-03-01 02:51:31 Post No.8712244 [Report]

>>8712240
wow

Anonymous 2017-03-01 02:54:14 Post No.8712248
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>>8712240
Oh, well my professor recommended POV-ray if we want to play around with pictures but it's quite limited. Might try and code something myself

Anonymous 2017-03-01 05:03:50 Post No.8713558
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Anonymous 2017-03-01 05:03:50 Post No.8713558 [Report]

Why does he do that? He is going to stain the window

Anonymous 2017-03-02 01:57:03 Post No.8714807
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Anonymous 2017-03-02 01:57:03 Post No.8714807 [Report]

>>8713558
DUDE LOOK AT HOW SMART I AM LMAO

Anonymous 2017-03-02 05:40:10 Post No.8715329
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Anonymous 2017-03-02 05:40:10 Post No.8715329 [Report]

Why is he writing on the windows. Is he on that spectrum?

Anonymous 2017-03-02 05:57:10 Post No.8715360
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Anonymous 2017-03-02 05:57:10 Post No.8715360 [Report]

>>8715329
Ye

Hating him is a popular meme old man

Anonymous 2017-03-02 12:13:55 Post No.8715769
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Anonymous 2017-03-02 12:13:55 Post No.8715769 [Report]

>>8711947
What is he up to nowadays? Did he discover anything good?

Anonymous 2017-03-02 01:13:51 Post No.8715822
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Anonymous 2017-03-02 01:13:51 Post No.8715822 [Report]

>>8715329
>Is he on that spectrum?
What do you think?

Anonymous 2017-03-02 03:05:31 Post No.8716017
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Anonymous 2017-03-02 03:05:31 Post No.8716017 [Report]

He's clearly a fucking normalfag

Fuck off with your meme illness

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