The man who knew infinity

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I've tried discussing maths with people who don't study it many times. It always ends one of two ways: Either I try to discuss the actual concepts involved, and the other person gets weirded out or bored and leaves, or I just act like a normie and go "oh yeahhhh i know riiiight infinity is, like, woah" (usually only stoop this low when i wanna get the succ).

It's a shame that mathematics is structured in such a way that someone who hasn't studied it for months/years can't see the beauty and elegance of it, vs the humanities and even shit like astronomy and some of quantum physics where you can study or visualize processes and interactions without knowing the underlying mechanisms of it all.

>maths

are you from europe?

If so, how the fuck does that girl not know what sigma is. she must have finished high school

She was too busy on the delta :)

>go to tutoring center
>tell them I'm in calculus 2
>give deceptively hard integrals they can't solve
>finally confess I'm a grad
>they ask me to solve this
sqrt(y) + x = 7 and sqrt(x) + y = 11.

>This is in Ramanujan's biography which I read in 10th grade. It was given to him in elementary school and he solved it in 10 seconds.
>Say answer immediately: x = 4, y = 9.

I think that's cynical. People learn mathematics in high school, so a lot of people you meet will have some basis in math.
That's a fair point, but one that I had thought about. If he didn't know much about Ramanujan he should have just said so.
Not to be rude, but maybe you aren't very good at explaining it, or are choosing the wrong concepts to explain. Obviously you can't just pick any mathematical concept and explain it and have them. I mean shit dip a little into infinity but in a way that actually makes sense. Limits or something; how the derivative is defined; infinite sequences, etc. That stuff can be fun.

>I don't want to recognize I'm disappointed in myself so I pretend to be a genius in front of a bunch of undergrads.

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you got me m8. Can barely respond.

But I'm not a graduate. Just a smart 19 year old. Rest of the post was true. Said I was a graduate to impress people on the internet.

>19 year old
Yeah, that makes sense.

>Smart 19 year old.
>Already knew the answer because of a book.