🧵 Can I like math if I hate calculations?
Anonymous at Thu, 20 Mar 2025 17:55:27 UTC No. 16624373
I think so many mathematical theories are beautiful and creative and genuinely artistic but I hate putting in the grunt work to compute things so I never get to grasp the fundamentals to truly understand the advanced concepts and build an intuition around them. Is my brain just too art pilled to enjoy math and its applications?
Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 21:40:14 UTC No. 16625373
A lot of proofs are inspired by seeing patterns in calculations
It's a good idea to do calculations to get a "feel" for what is going on, so you don't just end up memorizing and regurgitating proofs mindlessly
Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 23:41:59 UTC No. 16625445
>>16624373
Geometry
Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 02:08:06 UTC No. 16625519
>>16624373
No, you can't. All of math is just finding better ways to calculate.
Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 02:11:51 UTC No. 16625520
>>16624373
you don't even know what math is hence it's impossible for you to find it "beautiful and creative." you just heard someone call it that and liked the idea so you started LARPing. you're a disgusting normie freak.
Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 03:47:37 UTC No. 16625569
>>16625520
Man, you sound like you have some things you need to work out. I'm sorry you're so angry anon. You're right that i'm a terrible student and a pretty stupid person, but I think i've earned my stripes by taking classes in PDEs, going through the analysis sequence and doing a little bit of algebraic topology (I'm terrible at algebra though!). I'm just trying to work out whether someone as unintelligent and intellectually lazy as myself could do real math research or not
Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 03:50:25 UTC No. 16625570
>>16625373
This is exactly what i'm struggiling with. My brain is very lazy and struggles working through the repeated calculations because I get bored, I skip ahead to the overarching theory and proof without getting a full grasp on the objects i'm working with and then only partially understand the concept. This adds up over time to massive gaps in my mathematical understanding and makes me feel too dumb for math. It's a vicious cycle
Anonymous at Mon, 24 Mar 2025 08:05:32 UTC No. 16627177
>>16624373
nigga wtf is this, you either like math or you dont
Anonymous at Wed, 26 Mar 2025 15:44:56 UTC No. 16629058
>>16625519
You find better ways if you hate current ways of calculating.
Anonymous at Thu, 27 Mar 2025 19:56:22 UTC No. 16630088
I just wanna do research and not hate myself while being stupid