I loathe mathematics competitions. They don’t have competitions in comparative literature, do they? There must be plenty of fields that do not have them. Surely we can come up with better ways to make mathematics exciting for young people.https://twitter.com/ilaba/status/1189028060076503040 …
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Replying to @cjp_still
Ha. It wouldn’t have occurred to me that spelling bees are related to writing or literature.
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But that's not so far from how certain math competitions are related to actual math research...
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These contests are a bit like spelling bees. There is some connection between good spelling and good writing, but the winner of the state spelling bee does not necessarily have the talent to become a good writer, and some fine writers are not good spellers. ~ William Thurston
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There was little about me that identified the kind of bright student who wins at prestigious competitions or assimilates, almost by sleight of hand, the most forbidding subjects. ~ Alexander Grothendieck
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It’s true that I’m not good at solving problems. For example, I would never be good in the Math Olympiad. There, speed counts and I am certainly not a speedy worker. ~ John Tate
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How do you know all these quotations?!
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I've been collecting them for years now. I have more than forty pages' worth.
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I've only put up a small fraction of those dealing particularly with contest exams. Lots more in my collection, but I didn't want the thread to become unmanageably long.
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