🧵 Why is Princeton considered the mecca of mathematics?
Huh J. at Wed, 13 Nov 2024 13:59:18 UTC No. 16473359
I've read this time and time again on several forums. Besides the fact Princeton spent decades proving one by one the over 3000 theorems and equations of Ramanujan diaries and the fact Princeton has the biggest mathematics library of the world, How true is it?
How is Princeton maths different than Harvard maths or MIT maths?
Anonymous at Wed, 13 Nov 2024 15:52:46 UTC No. 16473470
Math is the same everywhere,.
Anonymous at Wed, 13 Nov 2024 16:07:32 UTC No. 16473487
>>16473359
The mecca of math is whenever terence tao goes to
Anonymous at Wed, 13 Nov 2024 16:28:14 UTC No. 16473508
>>16473359
> princeton math
maybe it was a great place some decades ago, but now it only produces low IQ niggereses like piper harron.
Academia is cringe, it is no longer a place for cutting edge innovation, Industry took the lead ages ago.
No ground breaking work is happening in academia, specially in classical sciences.
PhD in general is a wasteful endeavour in 2024.
Anonymous at Wed, 13 Nov 2024 19:12:15 UTC No. 16473722
>>16473359
rentech is better
Anonymous at Wed, 13 Nov 2024 21:12:54 UTC No. 16473852
It is the mecca because of Paul Erdős and rigor.
I knew people who went to Princeton or other colleges intending to be math majors and were shocked at how radically different the subject turned out to be when it's no longer about computing things by a rule the teacher has explained.
The academic level is so demanding that Terence Tao almost flunked maths at Princeton
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKp
Anonymous at Thu, 14 Nov 2024 00:16:39 UTC No. 16474080
>>16473852
Uhu so what is it about? A proof is after all just symbolic computation according to rules. A chain of inferences.