@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. -
@Meaningness Well, Feynman and Milnor did win it. The idea of kids *studying* for it though...ugh -
@St_Rev Defending my crackpot hypothesis: F & M won it when Putnam had not yet sucked field into tail-chasing death spiral of triviality. -
@Meaningness Plausible! -
@St_Rev I’ve no idea what the state of the field is, actually. Didn’t get far enough to have an opinion even when I was doing math ages ago. -
@Meaningness There's plenty of good work going on. Problem is that it's harder and harder to reach frontiers of research.
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@St_Rev Ah see, you ARE a normal person, except for actually looking at a Putnam exam.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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