What if the tremendous success and conceptual cohesion of the unified code base of mathematics is largely the result of bad math teachers making the field unattractive to all but the smartest and most tenacious students?
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Replying to @Plinz
why would bad teaching select for smarter students, specifically?
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Replying to @norvid_studies
It means that almost everybody who makes it into academia is self-taught.
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Replying to @Plinz @norvid_studies
But why would the smartest autodidacts go for maths, specifically?
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Replying to @ebenwert @norvid_studies
It would be only the smartest autodidacts that were able to discover and like math for what it is (an aesthetic discipline), without being distracted by promises of status and income.
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Replying to @Plinz @norvid_studies
Okay. Do you think it's different for physics or other fields with some of the smartest people?
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Replying to @ebenwert @norvid_studies
Physics appears to be a bit less cohesive to me than math, and it is built more around paradigms, with a few top level thinkers carving out the work of their adherents.
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What I wanted to express is: physics has multiple code bases and more dependency management.
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Replying to @Plinz @norvid_studies
A language I understand! So, math is a monorepo.
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