Why I failed to become a mathematician...
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I failed to become a mathematician for the simple reason that there was always something great on TV the night before every test I had. So it’s Vladimir Zworkin’s fault.
The Ukrainian reporter who grills Russian POWs?
I agree. Even though I get pretty good grades in mathematics, I know I could become a much better mathematician but I'm not putting anywhere near as much work as the top mathematicians do so I can only blame myself.
No, Zworkin was the inventor of the cathode ray tube and several other devices that make TV possible. He is credited with being the overall inventor of television, the bane of those of us who were undisciplined in our youths.
You didn't focus because you didn't have an aim to follow. Maths is tool not the aim itself. This is why you weren't willing enough to study it
math is not about passing exams, it is about solving problems and discovering structures. but tbf most people have no idea what a mathematician does but think they solve exams or do derivatives all day, which is kinda ridiculous
I failed to become a mathematician because I'm stupid. Hope that helps.
I love mathematics because it is not about people. Mathematics is a place where I can be alone by myself Focusing on logic and abstraction. It is a place where I can temporally be free from the pressures of daily life.
It's because life is uncertain and I hate the ambiguity of it. I love maths because it's certain and you know exactly what to do
I also Love Meth
@tomellman2418 There's a lot of truth in that. I can identify.
That is why I did it as a degree. 1. The problem solving. 2 . Do not need to depend on anyone to do the work but just collaborate if needed to help understand, again if can not solve myself. 3. It is exact as you can get and if you work hard easy to score full 4.0 GPA. 4. Lots of masters it can lead and many lucrative careers.
be alone by myself. GOOD one….DUMBBELL!!!
The main point of your video aside, it has also brought up another important point: prematurely judging a field. As a mathematician, you work with collaborators in your department and around the world, you teach sometimes hundreds of students every semester, and you closely mentor other people who are in the process of becoming mathematicians. To go with the great advice you gave in this video, I would add another: talk to people. When deciding on career A or B, one of the best things to do is talk to as many people from both careers as possible and ask question that can help you decide if the given career will improve your overall quality of life.
I dont think she prematurely judged a field. I think she is right about the social component. It is true that you have collaborators, but your work does not extrictly depend on human or social interactions to move forward. You are still the main contributor. Whereas in other fields like medicine, you need to interact with people for everything. With your patients or clients, with your colleages for a surgery, etc. Even if you compare maths with other academical fields, you will realise that collaborations are much lesser. Papers at most have 5 authors. In other fields, you have thousands of collaborators. You depend on laboratories, private companies other universities, etc.
Having said that, check "Machine assisted proof" by Terence Tao (czcams.com/video/AayZuuDDKP0/video.html), he acknowledge the collaboration issue in maths and he believes Machine assisted proofs might get large collaborations come closer.
Have a nice day!
Thank you for expounding this. It has helped me see myself more clearly. I failed to become a mathematician or a physicist mainly because I only really enjoyed those parts of physics and mathematics that could be mastered by intuition. As it turned out, only a few parts of the early curriculum in college could be done that way. I did not have the determination to get into the parts that were not intuitive, that required study, memorization and drill. I did, however, become a computer hardware and software developer. All of that could be done by intuition in my frame of reference.
Not all Mathematicians are Anti-Social..
No, but interacting with other mathematicians is often very painful. In fact, lack of social skills and ability to conversate normally are very common in my own experience
Yeah from my experience they're weird and difficult to speak to. Even when I was doing it for 10 hours a day for my masters I noticed that it became more difficult to speak to people because my brain is living in this strange and abstract world
And not all socialists are anti-Math.
Also, remember that our life is a journey rather than a destination, and making it into a destination will end up causing long term problems for ourselves which will eventually catch up with us: such as burn out or worse, a breakdown of some type. Our biological makeup is a masterpiece of engineering so take care of it.
You are completely right.
Thanks for this video. I am working on finishing up a chemistry degree I left, one more class to finish. After that, I am either starting a small business or an academic 180, and going to a theological seminary.
I failed to become a mathematician because I always thought maths just about numbers and variables to play around floating on a textbook. Once I first attended university it got harder and challenging into my third year, endlessly staring one problem at the time. I never enjoyed it, as a skill it challenges your capable thinking and problem-solving skills. In the end I kept grinding self-taught through problems through khan academy or additional readings to keep with the curriculum, ended up finishing my stats degree doing less pure mathematics such as complex analysis reminded me why I hated real analysis and mathematics overall. Just an iterative process of gathering more logic and information. Hoping to add some value later in life (in analytics, data science, commerce, finance etc..,). P.S. I am finishing my Masters degree hoping to land a role that does involve mathematics (many jobs only use partially/portion of it).
Science is all about interacting with people.
Each person has to figure out what their particular accent to the human motivation array is in order to build a behavior-space that satisfies it to the greatest extent for happiness.
And I am the opposite, here I am finishing medical school wishing I could be a mathematician hhaha life
Same man. I am a chemist, did a PhD. I am leaving it all aside to study mathematics. Hope you take also the path. Only one life, remember.
I'm in math and one of my classmates came after her studies in medical school.
It's cool to see people from other fields so interested in math whilst also bearing some establishments in their own!
The main reason I stopped doing mathematics is simply that it started to feel like a bunch of puzzles after a while without any broader significance.
My college abstract algebra book contained a handful of biographies about mathematicians throughout history. The biographies went something like, "this person who made major contributions to (some math area) also suffered from (some disease, disability, depression, mental illness, traumatic experience, etc)." I was thinking wow this career and area of study doesn't sound to promising.
maybe u should have taken up functional analysis, people there are much happier overall.
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I failed be a mathematician as the thought of doing a PhD was too daunting and I wanted to make lots of $$$. I did stick out a mathematics degree at a top university and then did MSc financial mathematics and made first $10 million before 35.
LOL!! I have a PhD in Applied Mathematics. I can tell you I am extremely social and actually an extrovert.
As do I, and I can definitely see where she's coming from. If you work in academia as a mathematician, it can be a very lonely endeavour whether you're an extrovert or not. There are lots of careers where you can use your maths phd to good effect and be a part of a team, but very few where you'd explicitly claim to be a 'mathematician'.
because you put the red book between the white and the blue ones.
I believe that mastering Language is more important than to be good at Mathematics either the WASSCE or the SAT out there.
What about being good at both. As a Persian and Arabic language expert I know many geniuses of these languages are also a great astronomers I mean mathematicians who writes poetry in spare times as hobby but now they are famous for their hobbies rather than their actual work.
Hey Amina
Not sure why one makes a video about a career they didn’t enter. It usually has something to do with a combination of lack of interest and lack of ability in that field.
You’re pretty.
If math were taught more as a history and/or philosophy subject, it would be more successful with students. Instead, it's taught as a science, and all the life is bludgeoned out of it. Obviously math's first child, physics, is very needy child, and is very sciency. Still, Mother Math should take more time for her later children, e.g., logic.
hated math in primary school for this reason. Loved math at university for the same reason. It's the same with Comp Sci. Knowing the histories of how advancements were made really helps the material stick
@@andrewpascal6096 The very worst depiction of math and physics was that horrid TV show _Big Bang_ where it was all just magic that only loser guys had. When you really explore the historical origins of, e.g., Galileo and how he came by his discoveries, you feel spoken to, involved. Math and physics become human then. Throughout K-12 you just get math like circus animals learn circus tricks, i.e., rote conditioning.
I always said "Doing maths, solving problems is like writing an argumentative essay in a formalized language."
That later child, Logic, attempted a "reverse takeover" of the parent subject in the person of Russell and Whitehead's Principia Mathematica (1910 -13). Did it work? That's a matter of personal choice.
@@faithlesshound5621 Logic is big with comp-sci.
You probably would have been right. I think as technology has advanced through the years, crime has been reduced by and large. Part of that may be ethics, but you can't deny a slurpee now and then. Nevertheless, nobody still has ever suggested I become a mathematician or electrical engineer, much less provided or assisted in some foundation from which to attempt such as a DWELLING and I know alot of people.
I believe you are not familiar with the field of mathematics. In addition to pure mathematics, there is applied mathematics, teaching mathematics... You connect with people, in fact mathematics is connected with everything, it is a human construction.
That settles it… I don’t love people, so maths it is! 🤓
Pretty smart
mathematics is a highly social field where collaboration is the way to success. Are you living on another planet?
I'm a court married
How are you Amina
I failed to become one because I couldn't compete with those Asian foreign exchange students
NewCanadianTurtle
I don't understand your statement, how does studying along with Asians in the Class made you fail in your exams, I mean you performance depends on your hardwork which is in your hands.....
And studying along with Asians who are smarter than you is actually a blessing in disguise as it is a good source of motivation.....
I think you should be more positive.
PhD Math.
Novantix
Oh gosh I haven't updated since 2015... I'm 26 now and will probably complete it by next year
@@chandrapandey822 are you doing maths bro ?I hope I have friends to discuss math with ?
European exchange students also say that American high school classes are really easy, so even if they had been average students at home they were top of the class in the US: except in sports, where the American kids were streets ahead. The problem is that high school kids in the US may "graduate" while 1 or 2 years behind their contemporaries in other countries.
I thought your segments are bad, honestly.
I love maths but im a bit thick. Oh, well.
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the number one reason why people do not "do" mathematics is because they discover they are not smart enough-it is one thing to be the smartest dude [and yeah most of them are dudes] in your high school and then doing an undergrad [and being one of the smartest] and then postgrad [when you realize there are really... really smart dudes] in math.
Mathematics is a skill that can be learned, the ones that excel are the ones who fell in love with the subject at a young age. I've always loved maths and got good grades in it, but I know I can become a much better mathematician because I don't work anywhere as hard as I can. The top mathematicians are studying 24/7, it's a lifestyle for them. If you dedicate as much of your time to it as they do, you can become a top mathematician too. And yes many find it harder than others, but I think it's because from a young age they didn't get taught the right way.
@@McFlashh Thank you for the comment. You said it is a skill and most people that are good at it start at a young age. Is 20 considered young? I do have an interest in it but I don't work as well as I would like to and that is something I'm working on
I'm currently in third year second semester of something I'm studying for the sake of going to college (Human physiology) and I would like to change to mathematics (like I don't mind at all when it comes to the time) but my funds is limited. However, my biggest fear is not being smart enough
From my experience in college, I got to know that not everyone is the same and more hard work is needed for some of us to get by. Thing is this is mathematics, not like physiology that is more of memorization and that's why I'm scared
I know you don't know me but would you reckon hard work can go (I'm more that willing)
For history - In my secondary school, this is silly but I fluctuated. Some days I'm the best in class other days well not so much. I'm using free time I have to study Trig and calculus cause Trig was hell for me (Even in first year college) and I've never done any calculus. I didn't even know there was a calculus until decided to up my math knowledge just for the sake of it. I use free time to study math
Would going into math be a bad idea?
I have a math BA and a great love for the subject, but the job market scared me off. Plus - it is very anti-social.
Well this didn't explain anything.
So math was too hard for you?
Or perhaps MATHEMATICS was too difficult for you "DOCTOR" AMINA AITSI-SELMI!.
How I can be a mathematician
Lets work together, I am also trying to figure it out
@@TheOnknk I wanna figure out too
@@TheOnknk You guys figured it yet?
@@vnever9078no but I found thousands of ways how not to become one, which I think we can still publish
I wanna figured it out
Love of logic and people is an oxymoron.
Not Math is racist 😉😉😉😉
5/4 are bad at Math
perfect example of why math is a male-dominated area. women generally more interested in people, whereas men are more interested in things. career choice is largely personality driven.
Women are pushed by society to be the caretakers and to be interested in people, while men are often encouraged to pursue interests in "things". Career choice is heavily influenced by external factors like societal pressures and opportunities granted when growing up.
Если из А следует Б и Б приятно, то А верно.
Лев Ландау о женской логике.
So woman?
I clicked on the video just to comment "who cares?"
Clearly, you did.
And this is why there are so few women in stem, you’re to busy worrying about your feelings than just doing the actual work .
Oh shut up. Individuals are allowed to make their own decisions. I'm a female mathematician, GFY.
Also, *you're too busy, not your. This is why there are so many dumb men, you worry too much about putting other people down.
A casebook example of sexism folks right here. Attitudes like yours keep misogyny alive and thriving.
Women aren’t a hive mind, we are not hysterical and so “emotionally fragile” that we can’t do math or science or other STEM related things.
Do you know who wrote the first computer code? Ada Lovelace, a lady over 100 years ago.
@@badanieMMP Isn't it remarkable that even amid a significant epidemic, men continue to lead? Men possess the ability to work regardless of their emotions. How a man feels doesn't impact his obligations to his work or family. In general, a man can feel lonely, heartbroken, downtrodden, and unnoticed by society, yet still continue to work and find joy in doing so.
If men started prioritizing their feelings over their duties, the economy would halt. The world would stop. Infrastructure would cease.
Men's issues cannot be resolved by simply discussing their feelings. While it may be therapeutic, it doesn't result in tangible change. Even Freud acknowledged that discussing feelings is a more feminine approach. Men prefer to solve problems directly.
There shouldn’t be competition, because we’re different beings with different capabilities.
It’s never going to be even, and no amount of social change is going to make it level.
@@Im_Really_Jesus_4realMen do not "possess the ability to work regardless of feelings", they have simply been conditioned to by society. Men are not fundamentally better leaders or innovators or anything else and women are not fundamentally better at expressing emotions and feelings. Instead, it's people like you who reinforce the societal structures already in place that prevent equal representation in fields like STEM. I suggest you read up on more contempory social theory and not just stick to Freud.
There are more female STEM graduates than men nowadays .....