Soon I may be in charge of a classroom full of high school students taking a mathematics olympiad test. With this opportunity I thought that maybe I should write a quote from a mathematician on the board for the kids. Something that intrigues and/or inspires them.
Everyone knows the usual famous quotes (god invented the natural numbers and everything else is the work of man, and such) but I wanted to look for something more underground and maybe more spicy.
My first thoughts were getting quotes from either Shinichi Mochizuki or Norman Wildberger (maybe one from each?) but these people don't have wikiquote pages. So could anyone recommend me good excerpts from Mochizuki's papers or Wildberger's videos I could get good quotes from?
And well, if this search is not fruitful then I guess quotes from other mathematicians are also valid, as long as they are not basic and mainstream.
Oh fuck, I like that. I should have remembered Perelman was also in the category of edgy misunderstood geniuses like Mochizuki and Wildberger. But it is just that he doesn't get posted here anymore and my tiny brain forgets.
Do you think this could be too depressive for kids who maybe don't know the entire context of the quote or do you think that they'll get it?
David Wilson
>Cubum autem in duos cubos, aut quadratoquadratum in duos quadratoquadratos & generaliter nullam in infinitum ultra quadratum potestatem in duos eiusdem nominis fas est dividere cuius rei demonstrationem mirabilem sane detexi. Hanc marginis exiguitas non caperet.
William Turner
Please no autismspeak. This is the 21st century.
Kevin Price
... don't be bitchmade. latin is l33t tier.
Gavin Reyes
...what?
Ryder Hughes
"As a society, we need to stop looking at mathematics as we do in the schoolsystem where we teach a different facet each year and instead begin looking at it like this:"
>or any variation of this
John Garcia
>order of operations
i'm actually okay with context free grammars being introduced so early
Brandon Bailey
>one time pad decryption Truly, the study of the gods
Jose Hughes
Go to the nearest library and open a math textbook, most of them have good quotes before each chapter :)
Juan Martin
"primes are like weed"
Thomas Parker
remember kids, pi is wrong
Christian Powell
It doesn't really matter what you have to say as the guy is deaf.
Nathan Roberts
Latin is Th.D. tier.
Sebastian King
"Perelmann in the streets, Gallois in the sheets"
Nicholas Watson
They are kids wtf. I know, but those are the mainstream ones. I wanted some spicy hot sauce from Wildberger or Mochizuki.
Jayden Nguyen
wildburger quotes
Angel Nguyen
I appreciate it comrad but none of it sounds like quote material. I mean, I wouldn't want to write "standard mathematics is an inconsistent theory" to a group of math students.
I would prefer something less agressive. Just Wildberger talking about how he feels about doing mathematics.
Logan Perry
how about (paraphrasing) >If we draw a circle and a line through the circle, it is unclear if the line intersects with the circle.
Sebastian Allen
Well, I am afraid one of the actual professors supervising this will see it and think I am retarded.
Elijah Murphy
So is he actually unable to spot his own error?
He used the formula for distance traveled assuming that POSITIVE g is downward (i.e. 1 - g/2*t^2), yet he earlier defined g so that NEGATIVE g is downward (i.e. g = -32) ?
Is he so retarded that he doesn't realize that you need to use a consistent convention for the direction of g throughout the entire problem?
So is this just someone's joke parody of him? Or did he actually post this to the world as written proof that he's mentally retarded?
Connor Johnson
Surely this image is entirely fake.
Asher Miller
-> Google Translate ->
>> 8929594 (OP) > Cube into two cubes, or quadratoquadratum in two quadratoquadratos to infinity and generally no more than two of the same name must be cut square to control the course of a remarkable demonstration detected. The shortness of this brink, he could not contain her.
Haha are you illiterate?
Anthony Harris
>xe may contact the head of education of xis country Get me out of here.
Jeremiah Campbell
Latin is autismo tier you goddamn loser.
>mfw he doesn't know the vastly superior Greek language of the gods