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This is no laughing matter. There used to be a Wikipedia category for scientists who committed suicide. (With a subcategory: Mathematicians who committed suicide.) Probably removed because it got overly broad or something.
Submitted it to Reddit's r/MorbidReality once, they just fucking removed it. Reddit mods are assholes.
Was probably the "you can help expand this list by contributing" line at the top.
i'm guessing the subcategory got removed because of slapfights between pure and applied mathematicians
I'll prove who's more applied!
There’s a great book called “the advent of the algorithm” and it has a chapter about how frequently logicians lose their minds and take their lives.
working with abstract ideas alienates you from other human beings as you see the world in a fundamentally different way than most people and you lose touch with social norms that are the building-blocks of social connection. it doesn't help that folks also tend to treat you like your a freak/monster because they are terrified of things they don't understand, like logic or pure mathematics.
even talking about how logic works at a 101 level is going to make people resent you in a casual social situation. and advanced logic is basically witchcraft for anyone not working that field, of which there are maybe a hundred or two globally.
out of 9/10 people I meet, who find out my academic background, become immediately hostile to me about it. as my graduate degree is some sort of personal attack on them. shit's wild. and the 1 person who isn't offended by it is mostly because they just don't care and don't judge people for stuff like that. maybe 1/50 I meet thinks it's a positive or interesting thing and 1/2 of those folks will get offended because I don't know about some obscure thing they think is related to my field, but isn't at all.
In my studying days in Australia, i lived with a guy who studied abstract mathematics. I found that shit fascinating, but could only understand 1/3 of it. Dude was interesting as fuck!
a lot of abstract math eventually finds an application, which is even cooler. there is just a gap of a decade or two typically.
This reminds me of the book Three-Body Problem, which has a whole bunch of physicists going down the suislide near the beginning.
The pool table analogy not making it in to the show was disappointing.
...it was definitely in the show? Even had some of the cooler bits of CGI.
So are lemmy users now that I’ve been here for a while!
Something tells me this may not be a unbiased opinion.
You are all the same
What's the common denominator here bud?
If you run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day...