ITT:

>while on high school, accidentally "discovered" Vietta's Formulas while trying to find a general solution to 3rd degree polynomials.
>(My mind was blown when i realised if i drew a horizontal line through a polynomial graph and sum the X values of the intersections, you get a fcking constant for each graph)

>retarded? well im autistic so..... i dont know where to start

>independently discovered calculus
>sharted during a lecture once

>partially derived the formula for arc length. couldn't do all of it as i was a brainlet and didnt know what the mean value theorem was at the time
>wasting my youth on a botswanan brass rubbing forum

Stay alive
Born

>had an idea to use a parameterized and default class constructor at the same time before we were taught what they were

>during the final exam, I assumed a triangle was to scale and tore off a piece of paper, compared it to a side, then used it to determine the length of the unknown side.
It worked but like really dude did I really not understand trigonometry after learning it for the entire year.

The quintessential engineer.

In middle school, I understood that solving for x just meant doing operations on both sides of the equality to cancel something out an the "rules" for solving for x are not some magical beast. This doesn't seem so grand, but from that point I went to be the best in math in my school just because algebra was a breeze after that.

pls post a pic of your cereal bowl

>skipped 2 grades in math
>failed math as a senior because i spent most of my classes doing autistic redstone projects in class

no

you're no fun

Subtle keks

>sum of the x values of horizontal colinear points is constant
U wut m8
Maybe for polynomials with only even degree terms but that is just a consequence of the definition of evenness for a function, no?

nope for all polynomials,
note that the line may not intersect the graph in N points where N is the degree of the polynomial, in that case you must consider the missing complex solutions

I discovered the Fibonacci sequence when I was 6

I only ever notice when girls like me via hindsight

rearranged and solved using standard elliptic function techniques

you got those mixed up

not browse Veeky Forums

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Mnigga

>Did not solve exercise sheet for topology class at an ivy, because of laziness and marijuana.
> TA (math PhD) calls my name, to show my solutions to class on blackboard, fuck!
> Solved the whole exercise sheet ad hoc. One ex was really hard, TA himself wasn't able to solve it.
> Did this again in physics, analysis and stochastics class.

> Went to casino, thinking i will make a lot of money. After a series of red, there must eventually be black. Lost a lot of money.

Felt like I'm the most stupid human on this planet.

>i would win every single maths bingo game because the game involved the teacher yelling out a number and if you found a multiplication pair that matched that number you could cross a number out, because i memorized my times tables in year 2, i would pick the most common solution like 12, 60, 24 etc. while other kids just picked their favorite numbers like 9

>getting overweight and generally making bad decisions, really fucked up my physical health :(

>I only ever notice when girls like me via hindsight
I hope this is all just people imagining that girls liked them, because either I still have no hindsight, or no girl has even liked me.

> I wrote N queen solution without know recursion, use random algorithm with random resets, several years later discover begins call climbing hill.

>got into cambridge to study science
>didn't revise at cambridge because I felt nervous whenever I tried to sit down to revise because of how big the gap was between how much I still needed to work on before I was exam ready then, and how much I still needed to work on before I was exam ready in the lst years of highschool. In highschool when I sat down to revise in the summer I could basically get a high B from the start with what I already retained , and revision was just about polishing to guarantee I got an A. In university at the time I sat down to start revision I'd have gotten like 30% if I tried to do the exam that day.

>teacher asked us to guesstimate area under curve of random curves
>I got like 10 in a row right just from estimating the area
>teacher was unsure if I was cheating or a savant

...

>at 6 or 7 I figured there must be alternate time lines taking the other option. (After dad asked if I wanted chocolate or vanilla)

>Used this for years to keep my depression unchecked cause some version of me somewhere is happy

Where's the intelligent thing?

Leibniz, is that you?

Not in this universe.

underrated post

>won a prize in some big math contest

>fucked up my first and last relatioship due to autism

Just wrote your pic on a bathroom wall
Lol

Do you sell windows/used cars?

Just called the police. I hope you're happy serving your time in jail, vandal.

muh nigga

lol

>won a national programming contest

>said "you too" to a waiter once

>because either I still have no hindsight, or no girl has even liked me
Same here. I don't approach girls because I'm almost completely certain that they're not interested in me, and I'd like to keep that tiny amount of doubt.

Forgot what year this was happened but I pissed off the smart kid in class tapping to the beat of my ipod music
I stopped and apologized but this meant war for this kid so he would do passive agressive shit like spreading his items out too
far and spilling over to my desk, slamming his book or bag, muttering lame shit whenever I was called to answer so I decided to
beat him at his own game.. I studied the hardest I ever did and managed to get a perfect score on the next test while he scored an
80 plus. He was disappointed but sadness turned to rage when I showed him my paper. I did a thing where I looked at my paper,
made approving noises like "oh.. thats good. yes this will do" and then looked at his, looked at him and shook my head turning it to the side
like "well..."

Guess it was too much for him since he up and half packed his shit and ran out of the room. He stopped sitting next to me after that.

Most retarded thing ? I dropped out the same school haha.

criminally under rated post

>There must be alternate timelines because of choices
>SCIENCE!

I hear you though. You were dead wrong but the concept was opened up to you because you were critical of a situation most would ignore because ice cream.

I remember at about that age, my friends and I trying to wrap our heads around time travel causality paradox in back to the future (If marty went back and his mom never boned his dad he and his siblings would cease to exist but if they ceased to exist marty never would have gone back to interrupt the no pants dance and he would have been born) while there are adults today who think that actual people living in 1955 were excited that it was the year that marty travel back to.

>won 2nd place in programming in a lego robotics competition in the 5th grade, while competing against college students because the teacher didn't read the age grouping

>spent all my college money on fast food and weed because I thought jesus was going to return in 2012

where is the smart thing?

>generalised the fibbonacci closed form for arbitrary F0 and F1 when bored in freshman high

>accidentally licked sulphuric acid

>Wrote a genetic algorithm to replicate an image using polygons (like evolisa) while procrastinating instead of doing my final lab report for freshman physics

>failed freshman physics

Pic related

Are you me?

>"discovered" taylor series before taking infinite series by taking the linear approximation of functions like sin, and e^x at x=0 and integrating then solving for the constant
>thinking that -(a+b) = -a+b and spending hours trying to find the mistake

This reminds me:
>at age 8, spend 15 minutes explaining to my teacher that if we had a big enough computer, we could predict how all atoms moved and know the future (this was in the 90s, before many people in my neck of the woods even had a computer)
>a week later, get transferred to a Gifted and Talented class

Dumbest thing I ever did:
>proceed to coast on innate intellect at the top of class without ever having to work for it
>nearly miss out on college and other major life milestones because so used to everything just happening automatically for me
>eventually get to classes on electromagnetism and complex analysis and have to study for the first time
>DIDN'T. KNOW. HOW.
>4.0 lost
>slipped to #3 in class
>become severely depressed for years
>still kinda depressed over it

You were wrong, though. Typical 8 year old brainlet.

>>generalised the fibbonacci closed form for arbitrary F0 and F1 when bored in freshman high
I seriously doubt that unless you had a course where you did something quite similar (i.e. derive the closed form for F0=0, F1=1)

Kek, pretty good

>most retarded thing you've ever done

study and work as an engineer

>most intelligent thing you've ever done

change to advocacy

>Figure out the proof of Pythagorean Theorem before the professor telling us

>Fall in love with a girl that didn't loved me back

>taught self differential and integral calculus in 7th grade for fun
>fell deeply in love with my TA who very well might not be gay and is also 8 years older than me first semester
help Veeky Forums it hurts

>won medals national and somewhat international competitions in programming
>won medal at an international competition in linguistics
>really good at sciences in general

>tl;dr irl and online stalked my first crush
>some retard didn't keep his mouth shut and told her I like her
>I was basically 100% she would be disgusted by this
>I started hitting on her anonymously trough some social media like site
>gave myself away in the most retarded of ways
>tried this one more time because am complete autist
>eventually came out of it, and haven't really had any romantic interest towards any girls I know
>sort of partially followed her after school a few times

>literally proved a previously unsolved problem in mathematics in my head but forgot to write it down when the idea hit me

>got home and forgot what my brilliant idea was or what the problem I solved even was about

fuck I feel like I could be a famous math celebrity right now. I keep telling myself maybe the proof wasn't real, and of course I couldn't prove something like that (whatever it was) but it seemed so logical at the time

>a/(b+c)+b/(a+c)+c/(a+b) = 4
>A = -11
>B = -9
>C = 5
What am I missing

I'm not sure that -11 and -9 are [math]\textit{natural}[/math] numbers, buddy.

Well I didn't even know what a natural number was until now.
I'm just a fag visiting from /g/ who happened to know C++

>most intelligent thing you've ever done
Finished high school

>most retarded thing you've ever done
When I was 12, I spent my whole summer vacation in the following way:

1. Wake up at 12 am,
2. Cut trees in Edgeville in RuneScape,
3. Go to sleep at 12 pm.

Sundays were special, since then I'd spend the day selling the logs that I had acquired during the week.

Are you schizo?

>Make stupid proposition that any knowledgeable person would dismiss since said computer would have to include it's own calculations into the equations, causing infinite regression in it's calculations.
>Brainlet teachers transfer you to gifted school.
>Develop narcissistic mind set caused by constant gratification from others.
>Have to study for once in life.
>Fail miserably.

Here you can see how intelect doesn't necessitate success.
Bad luck user, we don't really know better at 8 years. Would like to hear full story.