There was a scientist who did his best stuff while he was working as a patent clerk.
Do you know how much a patent clerk makes?
Monumental (if correct) advance in number theory posted to ArXiv by Yitang Zhang
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#52Re: Monumental (if correct) advance in number theory posted to ArXiv by Yitang Zhang
#53I'm not a mathematician, but the story of Yitang Zhang desperately makes me want this paper to be correct. > Prior to getting back to academia, he worked for several years as an accountant and a delivery worker for a New York City restaurant. He also worked in a motel in Kentucky and in a Subway sandwich shop. A profile published in the Quanta Magazine reports that Zhang used to live in his car during the initial job…
Someone needs to make a movie about his life, or at least a documentary.
Good luck finding a movie about Isaac Newton or Einstein, or literally anyone whose value to the world is more than pretending to be someone else or lying a lot, let alone a very interesting mathematician no one recognizes. (Ok I know there’s a few movies about folks like Turing and Nash, but it’s pretty slim pickings).
Re: Monumental (if correct) advance in number theory posted to ArXiv by Yitang Zhang
#54I'm not a mathematician, but the story of Yitang Zhang desperately makes me want this paper to be correct. > Prior to getting back to academia, he worked for several years as an accountant and a delivery worker for a New York City restaurant. He also worked in a motel in Kentucky and in a Subway sandwich shop. A profile published in the Quanta Magazine reports that Zhang used to live in his car during the initial job…
Someone needs to make a movie about his life, or at least a documentary.
I hope to see a movie about Perelman, too.
Re: Monumental (if correct) advance in number theory posted to ArXiv by Yitang Zhang
#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah I started reading that from the Wiki citation. Yikes. Academia is brutal.
Man, it's so weird and pathetic All of these guys are probably a hundred times smarter than me or most of the other code monkeys working for the FANGMAN, but they're all squabbling over little 5-figure scraps of grant money.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayre%27s_law
In any dispute the intensity of feeling is inversely proportional to the value of the issues at stakeRe: Monumental (if correct) advance in number theory posted to ArXiv by Yitang Zhang
#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think Zhang's previous result was good enough to rebuff Hardy's claims. Actually I think Math is more or less a young people's game is because whence someone be super successful and famous it's kinda difficult psychological to retain the previous mental state and push out similar results.
Plenty of counterexamples to the claim https://mathoverflow.net/questions/25630/major-mathematical-...
Just curious how many examples that show FIRST major discovery after say 40? I think I spotted a few.
Re: Monumental (if correct) advance in number theory posted to ArXiv by Yitang Zhang
#57I am pretty confident that I will never in my lifetime fully understand stuff like this (not the symbols themselves, but the overall meaning of each term and why it is like that): https://i.snipboard.io/by4tsH.jpg
I'm sure 3b1b will make an explanation video :)
Re: Monumental (if correct) advance in number theory posted to ArXiv by Yitang Zhang
#58I'm not a mathematician, but the story of Yitang Zhang desperately makes me want this paper to be correct. > Prior to getting back to academia, he worked for several years as an accountant and a delivery worker for a New York City restaurant. He also worked in a motel in Kentucky and in a Subway sandwich shop. A profile published in the Quanta Magazine reports that Zhang used to live in his car during the initial job…
Someone needs to make a movie about his life, or at least a documentary.
There is a documentary: Counting from Infinity - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBADiHU_0Wg
Re: Monumental (if correct) advance in number theory posted to ArXiv by Yitang Zhang
#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah I started reading that from the Wiki citation. Yikes. Academia is brutal.
Man, it's so weird and pathetic All of these guys are probably a hundred times smarter than me or most of the other code monkeys working for the FANGMAN, but they're all squabbling over little 5-figure scraps of grant money.
I think it’s their egos they’re squabbling over, not grant money.
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