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From: JSH on 19 Jul 2010 19:33 On Jul 18, 9:52 pm, "Jesse F. Hughes" <je...(a)phiwumbda.org> wrote: > JSH <jst...(a)gmail.com> writes: > > On Jul 18, 11:19 am, Frederick Williams > > <frederick.willia...(a)tesco.net> wrote: > >> JSH wrote: > >> > So then, why should anyone do mathematical research? > > >> Fame, fortune, beautiful women, appearing on chat shows, that sort of > >> thing. > > > Wrong answer. Math fame is actually anathema to all of those things. > > Lordy. > > Has your sense of sarcasm and parody been so utterly sacrificed? People don't become celebrities doing math unless MAYBE someone writes a book about you and it gets turned into a movie, but even then, how many people know who that guy is today? They probably think he's Russell Crowe who IS a celebrity. So consider over a hundred plus years of the modern mathematical world and how many mathematicians are celebrities today? Math is NOT a way to fame. It can be a way to fortune so there is where you can objectively disagree with what I said above as look at Wolfram. And I'm sure there are many others who have quietly made fortunes, like the math prodigy who was recently killed by people trying to take advantage of millions he made. Face it. Math people have a rep for being strange, odd birds who don't get along well with others. Doing math problems is not considered a way to get famous--at least not by most people. James Harris
From: Joshua Cranmer on 19 Jul 2010 21:33 On 07/19/2010 07:33 PM, JSH wrote: > On Jul 18, 9:52 pm, "Jesse F. Hughes"<je...(a)phiwumbda.org> wrote: >> Has your sense of sarcasm and parody been so utterly sacrificed? > > People don't become celebrities doing math unless MAYBE someone writes > a book about you and it gets turned into a movie, but even then, how > many people know who that guy is today? I'll take that to mean "yes." -- Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. -- Donald E. Knuth
From: Jesse F. Hughes on 19 Jul 2010 22:09
JSH <jstevh(a)gmail.com> writes: > On Jul 18, 9:52 pm, "Jesse F. Hughes" <je...(a)phiwumbda.org> wrote: >> JSH <jst...(a)gmail.com> writes: >> > On Jul 18, 11:19 am, Frederick Williams >> > <frederick.willia...(a)tesco.net> wrote: >> >> JSH wrote: >> >> > So then, why should anyone do mathematical research? >> >> >> Fame, fortune, beautiful women, appearing on chat shows, that sort of >> >> thing. >> >> > Wrong answer. Math fame is actually anathema to all of those things. >> >> Lordy. >> >> Has your sense of sarcasm and parody been so utterly sacrificed? > [...] > Doing math problems is not considered a way to get famous--at least > not by most people. Every single item mentioned (fame, fortune, beautiful women, appearing on chat shows) is something that *you* have expected as your reward for doing mathematics. You've mentioned every single one of these as a consequence of your stellar mathematical career. Have you no memory at all? -- "[Sometimes, I don't know what to do] so I guess. Technically what I do is called making a hypothesis. It's like what physicists do, and I basically operate a lot like a theoretical physicist." -- James S. Harris |