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Why if you're still in school you should become a pure mathematician
Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2009 3:16 am
by Negi
1. It's awesome
2. No chance of anyone ever using your shit for anything evil... or good for that matter.
3. Makes you officially awesome.
But seriously, you should all do it.
Modern Algebra is so freaking cool. You get to work with groups, rings, fields, modules, vector spaces, algebras, infinite dimensional spaces, etc.
Check out this awesome book I attached.
You'll need a DJVU reader to read it, like WinDJView
http://windjview.sourceforge.net/
Re: Why if you're still in school you should become a pure mathematician
Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2009 9:11 am
by tipereth
I agree with all three statements, but I find blowing up mountains to be pretty cool, too. Yeah, though, math is friggin sweet.
Re: Why if you're still in school you should become a pure mathematician
Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2009 10:13 am
by Lavarinth
Math makes you feel awesome when you know an equation someone else doesn't.
Re: Why if you're still in school you should become a pure mathematician
Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2009 10:42 am
by SaintKerrigan
Lavarinth wrote:
Math makes you feel awesome when you know an equation someone else doesn't.
Agreed.
Re: Why if you're still in school you should become a pure mathematician
Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2009 10:48 am
by Legion
Math confuses me.
Seriously.
Like crazy.
Re: Why if you're still in school you should become a pure mathematician
Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2009 12:18 pm
by IskatuMesk
TheExecutor wrote:
Math confuses me.
Seriously.
Like crazy.
This.
Re: Why if you're still in school you should become a pure mathematician
Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2009 1:45 pm
by Whiplash!
IskatuMesk wrote:
TheExecutor wrote:
Math confuses me.
Seriously.
Like crazy.
This.
this
Re: Why if you're still in school you should become a pure mathematician
Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2009 3:24 pm
by tipereth
Lavarinth wrote:
Math makes you feel awesome when you know an equation someone else doesn't.
What
Re: Why if you're still in school you should become a pure mathematician
Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2009 9:42 pm
by Negi
lol this book has basically no formulæ, but it has lots of higher dimensional geometry, crystallography, representation theory, linear groups etc.
By the way, when I say crystallography, I mean classification of 3d and 2d natural geometric arrangements. This book explains why you can have wallpaper patterns with 1,2,3,4, or 6 rotations in them, but not 5. It's siiiiiiiick.
Re: Why if you're still in school you should become a pure mathematician
Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2009 1:55 pm
by Rocco
Math has always been my best subject, I could never imagine being a teacher though.
Re: Why if you're still in school you should become a pure mathematician
Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2009 2:10 pm
by Legion
IskatuMesk wrote:
TheExecutor wrote:
Math confuses me.
Seriously.
Like crazy.
This.
What? I'm serious, it was my worst subject and I hated it and I'll kill it one day.
Re: Why if you're still in school you should become a pure mathematician
Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2009 5:08 pm
by IskatuMesk
I'm serious, too. I despise math. I was once decent at it but then decided it was totally pointless and it was the single greatest subject I totally ignored.
Re: Why if you're still in school you should become a pure mathematician
Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2009 6:34 pm
by Mucky
Fuck yes. I love math.
Re: Why if you're still in school you should become a pure mathematician
Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2009 7:55 pm
by Thalraxal
Whiplash! wrote:
IskatuMesk wrote:
TheExecutor wrote:
Math confuses me.
Seriously.
Like crazy.
This.
this
This. I've had some really good math teachers who helped me enjoy the subject, but they're always followed by teachers who suck the will to learn from you.
Re: Why if you're still in school you should become a pure mathematician
Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2009 8:08 pm
by tipereth
High school math teachers got paid to teach math. University math teachers get paid to do math. There is a huge difference in the level on interest in the subject and thus quality of teaching.