What's it like to be legit deep in math

Your motto becomes "I have no idea what I'm doing."

>>9076458
You dissociate functional forms from their meaning in reality thus going insane, just like Mr. Nash.

you transcend the need for sex

>>9076458
It feels like you have become one with the universe.
Like even if you were to be nuclear obliterated you could still go out laughing like a lunatic.
The old joke goes,
An engineer is working at his desk in his office. His cigarette falls off the desk into the wastebasket, causing the papers within to burst into flames. The engineer looks around, sees a fire extinguisher, grabs it, puts out the flames, and goes back to work.

A physicist is working at his desk in another office and the same thing happens. He looks at the fire, looks at the fire extinguisher, and thinks "Fire requires fuel plus oxygen plus heat. The fire extinguisher will remove both the oxygen and the heat in the wastebasket. Ergo, no fire." He grabs the extinguisher, puts out the flames, and goes back to work.


In short it feel like this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gA_8w1dz7r8
A mathematician is working at his desk in another office and the same thing happens. He looks at the fire, looks at the fire extinguisher, and thinks for a minute, says "It is trivial." and goes back to work.

>>9076526
>He looks at the fire, looks at the fire extinguisher, and thinks for a minute, says "It is trivial." and goes back to work.
So basically it's having serious autism?

>>9076526
And to think that video is what kids these days think is funny & entertaining

>>9076532
It is autism that transcends time and space anon.

>>9076539
It is actually not meant to be funny. It is a chapter in the inter dimensional sci-fi epic currently going on in Frank's universe.

LEARN THE LORE YOU FUCKING PLEB. FOR HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN IN THE INTERNET GRANDPA FFS

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>>9076548

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jm2D7ohWos0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTz93Y-qeq0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JMktNW8RiY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=equC7GEUt6k

https://www.youtube.com
/watch?v=lXMskKTw3Bc

Play all of these at the same time.
This will sum up how it feels to run so much math in your head.
This is what is expected. This is the weight of what I wake up with every day.

>>9076458

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HCz1tFqIcs

It's a real abstract kind of feel

>>9076634
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdHTnpgpLDc

As good as sucking cock

>>9076476
You transcend the possibility of sex

Fixt

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>>9076787
Lel

>>9076787
fuck u

like warm apple pie

>>9076458
You feel really insecure and can't ever shake the belief that you're not good enough to be doing this and are a phony.

salty milk and coins

>>9076458
Currently learning grassmanian to study amplituhedron polytopes. It is not much different to studying euclidean algebra say but a little more abstract.

>>9076787
jokes on you I already had sex before i started studying math

>>9077759
Then you can never truly be a mathematician

You become like L from Death Note.

>>9077777
Those sweet, sweet digits tho

>>9076458
For me, my spatial awareness decreases, to the point that I become really clumsy and have a hard time crossing streets.

>>9077777
quints of truth, sorry >>9077759 you will never make it.

>>9076463
this.

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>>9076458

good, man

>>9076841
This

>>9076463
>>9076841
These. Even though you know the mathematical logic behind what you're doing is airtight, you can't escape the feeling that there's something you're not seeing. You question every small detail, every aspect of your analytical thinking. But it's entirely worth it for those brief moments when the right gears turn in the right places and a proof or an idea finally makes sense.