/sci/ - Science & Math

if i push myself to understand it then it comes easily to me; i am extremely unmotivated which is why i joined the merchant navy instead.

if i push myself to understand it then it comes easily to me; i am extremely unmotivated which is why i just wageslave at a bullshit job

>>12342268
Nobody wants to work a shit job, they don’t have options

>>12342272
I wasn't mocking him, I was describing my own life.

>>12342274
Who are you?

>>12342225
It comes pretty easy to me when I can see a direct application for it (physics, chem, programming, etc.), but I end up getting bored and lazy in my actual math classes.

forgot everything i learned at uni, no regrets. i can't even remember trig and i refuse to look it up.

>>12342268
>65k a year with no income taxes, only work 8 months of the year
ok stemcuck

>>12342225
Better than anyone in my family and got a great GPA and test scores in HS.

BUT, going back to college after 4 years of fucking around has done nothing for my retention of anything more difficult than basic geometry and algebra.

>>12342225
definitley above average for my field of work(chem eng).
would I like to be able to do more?
hell yes, but you have to decide for something in life.
one cannot have everything.

>>12342225
I'm almost half reasonable at maths.

I'm very good by normal population standards.
I'm good by physicists' standards (counting experimentalists as well, to make it easier on me, lel).
I'm bad by postgrad mathematicians standards.

>>12342291
I'm not even in stem..

pretty bad I think, but I like it. I won't stop just because I'm bad. it's the only thing I like.

Probably algebra up to analysis one and some basic understanding from other fields in math.

>>12342225
Right around the time I started learning the physics for vibration in complex mechanical systems I stopped being able to calculate tips.

>>12342225
good enough to be an engineer but not much better than that.

I'm good by PhD standards [I am talking about maths, not "statistics", "numerical analysis" or even worse "mathematical finance" ] but feel dumb when I read geometry or algebra.

>>12342225
It takes me a lot of brain power and I'm not very good at it, but I still enjoy learning about it.

>>12342225
Foundationally I'm doing good but not educated enough in a lot of the practices

>>12342225
I can learn it extremely quickly but it has almost no application in my field so I have forgotten I'm sure everything after Algebra II or Precalculus. It also seems like there's no field where an extensive knowledge of pure maths translates into a high income so whatever

>>12342225
good in what way?
i'm not as good as a math undergrad, but my math is way more useful so there ya go

>>12342225
based Kiritsu putting thirsty oujo biofag thot in her place

>>12342225
I'm very good but I need a shitton of time to learn by deconstructing everything to its basic truths, more than others. I can need 2 days to solve some problems that other people solve in 3 hours.
I'm an engineer btw, so I'm good as far as it concerns my profession.

Probably average or slightly below average. I still like it thought.

Really bad.
I understand when I read about it, I can follow most proofs ans trains of reasoning. But besides this passive understanding I am shit at actively engaging. And if a proof has some tricky algebraic manipulations I often struggle to see how some expression was reached. When there are a few of those I just gloss over the text accepting it at face value. Am not good at considering edge cases that are not accounted for in the proof, either.
And a single excercise the solution of which is not obvious takes me days to solve.

>>12342225
depends. compared to the general population? well above average? compared to stem majors? above average. compared to hard stem majors? average or slightly above. compared to professional mathematicians? well below average.

OP
https://mangadex.org/chapter/1101167/3

Also How does /sci/ feel about mathematical girls?
https://mangadex.org/title/1550/mathematical-girls
https://mangadex.org/title/17247/mathematical-girls-fermat-s-last-theorem
https://mangadex.org/title/13973/mathematical-girls-g-del-s-incompleteness-theorems

>>12342225
I'm pre university good.

>>12342225
I struggle with pre calculus. I'll forever be a mathlet but its worse because I wish I was smart enough. I studied for hours and barely got a B in precalc. People just arent created equal.

>>12342225
not good enough

>>12342275
I'm you, from your past.

>>12342225
Absolutely horrible. I never learned my times tables.
>t. 3rd year physics student.

>>12342225
define maths

>mental arithmetic
not very good with speed, definitely have to improve
>problem solving
I can solve most brainteasers but I'm very slow and I may get it wrong if I rush. I think I can improve
>formal math
I like it but I'm still not very good at proofs
>applied maths
I have some knowledge in some fields
>statistics and computational math
I can do some things and mostly I can lay down the problem with code

In summary: not really. Can do better

>>12345257
this is the only possible answer to such a question.

>>12342225
I'm a grad student and I could study math and explain math to others like a knack. However, I
take long to acquiesce this knowledge through
work, being as patient as I am, and I am feeling
inadequate about my abilities and my prospects
of finding a career needing said knowledge.

In a way, I'm quite good at math to have
"scientific doubts" about myself.

>>12342225
I'm a grad student and I could study math and
explain math to others like a knack.
However, I take long to acquiesce this
knowledge through my work, being as patient as
I am, and I am feeling inadequate about my
abilities and my prospects of finding a career
needing said knowledge.

In a way, I'm quite good at math to have
"scientific doubts" about myself.

>>12342225
Terrible and my ADHD makes nearly impossible to perform mental math. Still, I'm trying my best to start learning again in my 20s.

>>12345996
>In a way, I'm quite good at math to have
>"scientific doubts" about myself.
good. who believes to be something has stopped becoming something.

wisdom frees from doubt.
virtue frees from suffering.
determination frees from fear.

>>12342225
I peaked in middle school. I was the best at math in the state according to the AMC and then it all went downhill because for some reason all my teachers and parents expected nothing from me so I spent my days grinding league of legends instead of doing math. Took calc as a freshman and failed and refused to take it again until college

By undergrad math standards I'm ok

>>12342225
I did maths at Cambridge.
Got a 2:2 lmao.

>>12346095
>>12345996

Thanks for the words

>>12342225
Above average but nothing special I don't think. People seem to think I am for some reason though.

>>12346373
I peaked in elementary school because I went to a quaint all white elementary school then joined the inner city zoo in middle school.

i finished my undergrad last year and im literally clueless about anything
and not le humble "haha im not good" i actually know nothing
i passed with a gpa of just over 3 (out of 9)
i did maybe half of my assignments and never went to tutorials, and would just cram the day before my exams
the only paper 300 level paper i got higer than a c on was mathematical logic

Terrible. At some point in time math turned into a memorisation game for me. I don't have any kind of intuition and can't prove even the simplest concepts to myself.
It is painfull to constantly look stuff up instead of being able to derive it yourself.

>>12342225
Bad. Very bad.

I take time to understand and do the exercises don't come naturally, I need example and understand the examples.
It's very difficult.
But with work I get there.

>>12347029
>>12347029
I feel you bro

Did very well at undergrad math - like "top of the class in every class" well. Taking my first grad level classes this year and so far I am doing well, although I'm not top of the class anymore. Applying to relatively competitive PhD programs (all group 1) right now so thats where the real test of how good I am at math will come

i often make mistakes when dropping parenthesis and then i feel like complete retard

I can't do basic mental math to save my life and I'm an eng student which is embarrassing

I got through diff eq. but I wouldn't say I'm talented. I honestly hate math.

I am a certifiable genius, member of Mensa, and can calculate pi ad infinitum if it was not a giant waste of time.

Extremely bad.

I have some evidence that suggests I'm better than anyone else but better is subjective. There are a lot of other people who are more meticulous in doing arithmetic than I am. It depends what you mean by better.

I'm an accountant so I can add, subtract and sometime multiply and divide. 4/10

>>12342225
i am bad and thats why i need someone here to help me with my trig homework

>>12342225
I am really good academically. The best in any of my classes since grade school. But if you ask me on the spot to add together two numbers i can't do it. I would freeze from the social pressure.

>>12342225

it seems like I was better at it when I was younger. I think after I got really depressed in high school I lost interest in math and it prevented me from going very far with it or trying very hard.

>>12342225
Terrible. I'm still going for that PhD though

>>12342225
Shit. Only here because I love science though.

>>12342225

not very

>>12346416
3rd year mathmo at Cambridge here. Wish me luck!

>>12342225

Engineering degree, I took ALL my technical electives in the Mathematics department and when I went for Masters in Engineering I took a a few more classes in Mathematics graduate department and got a BS in Mathematics. it literally required NO extra work other than getting my graduate advisor to approve a few graduate mathematics classes as Engineering electives and getting the mathematics department to approve a few graduate classes as satisfying some undergraduate mathematics classes I was missing.

Short story, getting a BS in Mathematics is easy if you are a graduate Engineering student and you plan ahead a bit.