Why are people majoring in mathematics so crazy

because they're incredibly based

Hahaha if you're Japanese and can't do math you should just commit seppeku

can you britanon?

Nope I'm not Japanese

>you will never be a critically acclaimed Russian NEET hypergenius who turned down a million dollars and lives with rats in a commie block

youtu.be/qQ-56b_LvOw

Someone who goes into a field that's harder and more rigorous than something that's way more financially rewarding is crazy by default. If you're smart enough to get a math degree, you're smart enough to get an engineering degree, yet you choose the degree that gives similar job prospects to that of a history major, while wasting years of your life on a doctorate as well?

That's actually me. I was a winner of international IT-tournament, but dropped uni and refused to move in States afterwards.

I understand not wanting to be in the limelight and all that, but quitting academia entirely and wasting your 1 in a billion gift? That's just nihilistic and also selfish.

cringe retard

Why is the Russian bell curve so broad?

numbers are not real so only schizos dedicate their life to it

smart people have passions and recognize that there are multiple paths to comfort and happiness
i study mathematics with the intent of doing research because i prefer to thoroughly enjoy and value my career on a level of self-fulfillment, given a certain baseline standard of living which i can achieve.

based Piraha tribesman

True. If you want to be an academian, then of course a math major will lead that route, and there's nothing wrong with that. It is however risky to go into mathematics, because you're forced to go the PhD route, which not everyone is cut out for. If you then end up stuck with only a bachelor's in math, you're fucked.

he's talking about perelman who proved something far far far more incredible than any little competition you won a participation trophy in.
perelman filled in extremely difficult gaps in a proposed argument for the poincare conjecture, which says that a very wide class of 4 dimensional spaces can be deformed into the 4 dimensional sphere. this argument quite literally involves abstractly flowing the space to a 4d sphere via something called the ricci flow, which is a differential equation that basically pulls a space in the direction that it curves. there are huge huge issues with this idea, most notably that when you flow a space like this sometimes it will pinch off (like an hourglass) and become disconnected. well, obviously a sphere is not disconnected, so that's no good. perelman conducted a process of meticulous "surgery" on these hourglass-like structures that can confound the ricci flow in order to essentially force the idea to work. so for, say, a 4d dumbell shape, this would be cutting out the handle and gluing the two ends to one another. but of course much much more complicated and abstract in perelman's proof.
it's truly astounding that anyone could possibly manage to prove poincare that way. and there are still plenty of unsolved problems that people think the ricci flow can solve if someone just figures out how to control it appropriately.

I think the best strategy here is to pick up a good amount of applied math and computer science experience in case one needs to pivot. But a student who uses their undergrad correctly should know by the end of their undergrad whether or not they will be able to hack it out for 5-6 years in a PhD.

You are the laughingstock of /sci/. I hope that makes you cry yourself to sleep at night.

based if true

Who here /microbiology/
My degree has never felt more relevant to the world at large than now

>muh career money educayshun
shut up shut up and fuck off every single one of you

>numbers
>colors
>transitivity
>pronouns
>recursiveness
all spooks.

why would he care if he's a laughing stock on a homework help forum?

t.crazy

because nothing makes sense in this chaotic plane of existence so the longer we pursue higher learning consistently (which is most frequently required for math majors) the crazier we become
it's cringe but true

Homework help is not allowed on /sci/. Please go to for academic advice.
Better to be crazy than to settle.

Good point. It's not for me though, I'm more than happy with my less prestigious civil engineering degree. Making decent money and can save half my income. That was the goal of getting the degree anyway.

Math majors are the only ones to directly look upon and record the Platonic realm. We have the unique privilege of observing eternity and perfection. Everyone else is stuck in the messy physical realm which is shoddily modeled on Plato's posited mathematical universe.