How has mathematics gotten so abstract?
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How has mathematics gotten so abstract?
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Re: How has mathematics gotten so abstract?
#2This reminds of of that one time when I was on a date with a girl from the history department who somehow bemusedly sat through my entire mini-lecture on comparing infinite sets. Twenty years and three kids later, she'll still occasionally look me straight in the eye and declare "my infinity is bigger than your infinity."
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#3This reminds of of that one time when I was on a date with a girl from the history department who somehow bemusedly sat through my entire mini-lecture on comparing infinite sets. Twenty years and three kids later, she'll still occasionally look me straight in the eye and declare "my infinity is bigger than your infinity."
This is the type of romcom I'd watch ;)
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#4This reminds of of that one time when I was on a date with a girl from the history department who somehow bemusedly sat through my entire mini-lecture on comparing infinite sets. Twenty years and three kids later, she'll still occasionally look me straight in the eye and declare "my infinity is bigger than your infinity."
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#5What else is it supposed to do?
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#6This reminds of of that one time when I was on a date with a girl from the history department who somehow bemusedly sat through my entire mini-lecture on comparing infinite sets. Twenty years and three kids later, she'll still occasionally look me straight in the eye and declare "my infinity is bigger than your infinity."
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#8This reminds of of that one time when I was on a date with a girl from the history department who somehow bemusedly sat through my entire mini-lecture on comparing infinite sets. Twenty years and three kids later, she'll still occasionally look me straight in the eye and declare "my infinity is bigger than your infinity."
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There’s something called “not giving a fuck” that works in those situations. The crux of it though is you need to “know thyself” or you’ll be forever your worst critic and enemy.
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#9My mental representation of this phenomenon is like inverted Russian dolls: you start by learning the inner layers, the basics, and as you mature, you work your way into more abstractions, more unified theories, more structures, adding layers as you learn more and more. Adding difficulty but this extreme refinement is also very beautiful. When studying mathematics I like to think of all these steps, all the people, and centuries of trial and errors, refinements it took to arrive where we are now.
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There’s something called “not giving a fuck” that works in those situations. The crux of it though is you need to “know thyself” or you’ll be forever your worst critic and enemy.
Also you're being open and readable to the other person. You're not being deceptive or putting on a show, which is usually what rustles people's jimmies.