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If anything I would say it's the opposite - individuals in less affluent communities are more likely to need the help of their neighbors, and thus interact and form relationships

Indeed, why wait till 50 to start giving back. Edit: Not talking purely about financially giving back, but also volunteering your time.

Thanks for the link, this made me chuckle: There was also a prevailing concept of fairness, in which practising or training was considered tantamount to cheating.[176] Those who pr…

I'm not entirely sure that for the purposes of funding it is. Typically it exists in the Business school/faculty as opposed to arts in NZ.

Exactly, it's completely arbitrary. I like to frame it in terms of fitting n points (the existing data in the problem) to a polynomial of degree n+1, where there's an infinite numb…

The person (Denpok) who quotes it is a charlatan posing as a guru, which makes the fake citation fitting.

Aside from those I also loved the photos I got with the bottle and him in his garden. Thanks Cliff (:

Equally there is also a text called "Linear Algebra Done Wrong"

If you don't mind, could you share how you overcame that? I think for me at least a lot of it is/was not being able to be comfortable struggling with a hard problem for an extended…

Here's one such place - http://www.math.toronto.edu/oz/turgor/archives.php

This is super cool

> What actually hurt young people was the constant reinforcement that "anyone can do anything/anyone can be the best" I think Ratatouille corrects this idea well - Not everyone can…

Out of interest, what and when inspired this change?

Good, he did not have enough imagination to become a mathematician. [Upon hearing that one of his students had dropped out to study poetry] - David Hilbert