Mathematicians of Veeky Forums:
How do mathematicians know what to go after? In physics I can see it: you see a phenomenom and you get an insight like that stuff about the apple falling on newton's head or you see a phenomenon and make some basic questions to yourself.
But I can't see how Mathematicians get their inspiration I don't even understand how they even start finding out the things they do. It's like it comes out of nowhere and it's just a bunch of disconnected rules. It's like: How do you even start thinking about roots or those other properties?
Mathematicians of Veeky Forums:
Caleb Torres
Easton Collins
Your image gives away your troll.
Anthony Clark
How is my post trolling? I'm asking a genuine question. I also like Wildberger.
Gabriel Reed
user, in mathematics a believing heart is your magic.
Andrew Jenkins
Someone said it was something about defining variables and equating certain reactions with those variables. a = hit b = movement
a + b = speed
something like that I believe. Although the hard part is working out the kinks and the logic behind your equations most likely.
Eli Thompson
What does that even mean my man? Are Mathematicians connected to other realities than us? Do you guys just dream about this stuff? Fuck why don't mathematicians answer this shit. I want to see a mathematician recording what he does to arrive at a proof or some new concept.
Julian Martinez
Mathematicians attempt to discover patterns in nature while finding correlations between different phenomena. For example, the famous E=mc2, which tells us that energy is equal to mass.
Hudson Torres
>What does that even mean my man?
If you believe it in your heart and can imagine it, it is real.
>Are Mathematicians connected to other realities than us?
Yes
>Do you guys just dream about this stuff?
Not always but mathematics dreams are always the best dreams.
>I want to see a mathematician recording what he does to arrive at a proof or some new concept.
It's called a book lol come the fuck on man.
Hunter Smith
physicist*
Kevin Mitchell
No man. I'm talking about the guy who comes up with the stuff that makes writing a book possible in the first place. I'm talking about how did Galois and other mathematicians find the stuff he did?
What I'm asking is what made he even start exploring in the direction he was going. What were the questions and motivations. For someone like me it looks like it's something out of nowhere.