🧵 Writing a dissertation
Anonymous at Thu, 16 Jan 2025 04:01:33 UTC No. 16549005
>be me, math PhD student
>need to write dissertation
>remember Grothendieck's quote "Fuck everyone, do your own shit. We don't read books. We write them."
>spend 8 months inventing mathematics barely reading any papers or books. Just here and there when I need to refresh something."
>Invent 110 pages of elementary mathematics.
>Hit a roadblock and can't make any new theorems
>Too bad at problem solving to solve popular unsolved problems.
>Mathematical career is over now, because I can't do research anymore. I just got lucky finding a small elementary niche other people hadn't explored before.
Thanks Grothendieck. :')
Anonymous at Thu, 16 Jan 2025 04:07:55 UTC No. 16549015
>Grothendieck was born in Berlin in 1928 to a Russian Jewish father and a German Protestant mother
Anonymous at Thu, 16 Jan 2025 06:05:01 UTC No. 16549245
>>16549005
git gud
Anonymous at Thu, 16 Jan 2025 06:36:20 UTC No. 16549453
This is who your tax dollars are going to btw
Anonymous at Thu, 16 Jan 2025 07:47:28 UTC No. 16550033
>>16549005
>>Invent 110 pages of elementary mathematics
peak pseudery. You’re not a math PhD student, OP. If you were, your PI would have told you to cut the bullshit already.
Anonymous at Thu, 16 Jan 2025 11:51:16 UTC No. 16550221
>>16549453
How do I unsubscribe from paying to OP?
Anonymous at Thu, 16 Jan 2025 17:05:58 UTC No. 16550606
>>16549005
>Fuck everyone, do your own shit. We don't read books. We write them.
chat is this real
Anonymous at Thu, 16 Jan 2025 19:18:23 UTC No. 16550827
>>16550221
I tell you only one word that comes into my mind when I hear about how taxes are spend: "defenestration".
🗑️ Anonymous at Fri, 17 Jan 2025 06:53:12 UTC No. 16553316
>>16550606
(1/2)
🗑️ Anonymous at Fri, 17 Jan 2025 06:55:23 UTC No. 16553322
>>16550606
(2/2)
🗑️ Anonymous at Fri, 17 Jan 2025 07:05:37 UTC No. 16553337
>>16550606
"Fuck everyone. Do your own shit." -Grothendieck
Anonymous at Fri, 17 Jan 2025 07:08:25 UTC No. 16553341
>>16550606
"Fuck everyone. Do your own shit."-Grothendieck
Anonymous at Fri, 17 Jan 2025 07:18:04 UTC No. 16553347
>>16549005
If you were a PhD student you would know your advisor is most often the one guiding you on what to work on.
Anonymous at Fri, 17 Jan 2025 07:29:41 UTC No. 16553355
>>16550606
The guy was the definition of a crackpot, insane genius. OP is either a complete idiot or trolling.
Anonymous at Fri, 17 Jan 2025 11:00:53 UTC No. 16553529
>>16550594
youre insanely retarded
Anonymous at Fri, 17 Jan 2025 13:29:24 UTC No. 16553676
>>16553347
Not OP but my advisor’s “guidance” boiled down to meeting him once in a blue moon to discuss funding that may or may not have been approved for the zillionth time that year. They call it the “hands off” approach. I don’t think the guy read my stuff even once, but I still got my piece of paper somehow. Academia is a fucking joke desu.
Anonymous at Fri, 17 Jan 2025 22:15:51 UTC No. 16554367
>>16550606
>>16553341
Surely Grothendieck read some books too, not just wrote them?
Anonymous at Fri, 17 Jan 2025 22:58:07 UTC No. 16554430
>>16549005
Very humorous, but I don't believe you. Post dissertation.