@St_Rev @sarahdoingthing maybe the Putnam prep crew in the undergraduate math lounge?
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@Meaningness I'm not sure any of it applies much to my own experience as an algebraist, though. -
@St_Rev yes, algebra seems to not to have foundational problems so much. -
@Meaningness I just had the frustrating experience of my advisor being a lot easier to understand when he didn't know I was watching. :[ -
@St_Rev Uh, why? (I’m missing a step here) -
@Meaningness I have no idea! He talked math to other people in a way he didn't with me. -
@St_Rev Ah, right. Our hypothesis, based on experience, was that both of us were denied access to the holy inner circle of initiates -
@St_Rev But now I’m suspecting one reason I was denied access was *because* I asked triggering questions about foundations. -
@St_Rev it was completely baffling at the time. we’re doing real analysis and you get all upset when I ask what “real” means?? - 1 more reply
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@St_Rev Yeah, exactly the analogy. So this makes me want to poke harder and see what upsets them the most, because something interesting -
@St_Rev Toward the end, this talk by Chaitin http://arxiv.org/html/nlin/0004007 … points at one of the places where mathematicians get super squicked
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