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I didn't feel comfortable at first with pure mathematics, or as a professor of pure mathematics. i wanted to do a little bit of everything and explore the world.

-Benoit Mandelbrot

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I Didn't Feel Comfortable At First With

Benoit Mandelbrot

I didn't feel comfortable at first with pure mathematics, or as a professor of pure mathematics. i wanted to do a little bit of everything and explore the world.

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Mr. moony presents his compliments to professor snape, and begs him to keep his abnormally large nose out of other people's business. mr. prongs agrees with mr. moony, and would like to add that professor snape is an ugly git. mr. padfoot would like to register his astonishment that an idiot like that ever became a professor. mr. wormtail bids professor snape good day, and advises him to wash his hair, the slimeball.

Longing surged up within me. i wanted it. oh god, i wanted it. i didn't want to hear jerome chastise me for my "all lowlifes, all the time" seduction policy. i wanted to come home and tell someone about my day. i wanted to go out dancing on the weekends. i wanted to take vacations together. i wanted someone to hold me when i was upset, when the ups and downs of the world pushed me too far. i wanted someone to love.

Explore, and explore, and explore. be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry. neither dogmatise yourself, nor accept another's dogmatism. why should you renounce your right to traverse the star-lit deserts of truth, for the premature comforts of an acre, house, and barn? truth also has its roof, and bed, and board. make yourself necessary to the world, and mankind will give you bread, and if not store of it, yet such as shall not take away your property in all men's possessions, in all men's affections, in art, in nature, and in hope.

I just don't feel that we've traveled very far in the realm of social equality. there just seems to be a little bit of unrest. and sometimes i think that happens when you really feel like something's about to change. right before the moment of lift off, sometimes things feel a little bit unhinged, and that's what it feels like to me right now, both as a woman and just as a human on the planet as an american woman in america. i feel like we're on the precipice of change. i feel a little nervous.

Most people have some appreciation of mathematics, just as most people can enjoy a pleasant tune; and there are probably more people really interested in mathematics than in music. appearances suggest the contrary, but there are easy explanations. music can be used to stimulate mass emotion, while mathematics cannot; and musical incapacity is recognized (no doubt rightly) as mildly discreditable, whereas most people are so frightened of the name of mathematics that they are ready, quite unaffectedly, to exaggerate their own mathematical stupidity

Srinivasa ramanujan was the strangest man in all of mathematics, probably in the entire history of science. he has been compared to a bursting supernova, illuminating the darkest, most profound corners of mathematics, before being tragically struck down by tuberculosis at the age of 33, like riemann before him. working in total isolation from the main currents of his field, he was able to rederive 100 years' worth of western mathematics on his own. the tragedy of his life is that much of his work was wasted rediscovering known mathematics.

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