Every once in a while I look at a Putnam exam and wonder a) how you solve any of the problems and b) why anyone would care about any of them
@St_Rev Oh, I thought it was only me that felt that way! Due to lacking math gene. But maybe it's just dumb.
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@Meaningness It's very hard stuff, but it's a very artificial kind of hard. My advisor said I had no sense of aesthetics tho, so who knows? -
@St_Rev Hmpf. Maybe, since doing well on Putnam gets you a position, whole math profession now optimized for artificial objective function. - 8 more replies
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