how mathematicians think?

[urban sand]

I wonder how it would be to understand math from a mathematicians pov and how to achieve that?

[idle chasm]

A lot of handwaving

This is grothendieck yes

[idle chasm]

A lot of crack a la Erdos

[idle chasm]

You don't need to

Just take Erdos' advice

I'm a comathematician i turn cotheorems into ffee

[urban sand]

I need some more realistic answers about thinking not writing or else 🤧

[sturdy totem]

ok

it's not like a mathematician just knows a whole bunch of formulas

Just knowing 1000 formulas ain't gonna get you anywhere

You'll have to look at something from many angles

approach a problem from many sides at once

A mathematician thinks logically, basically

keep it as simple as possible

the simpler, the better

[idle chasm]

Realistically, you have to be delusional. That's what @idle chasm told me

It's either that or drugs

Haha when did i say that

[idle chasm]

Help me again please

[cyan token]

idk about that

some things arent simple

[idle chasm]

But I think that's the point

You make things as simple as possible

[sturdy totem]

yee but

its best to keep it as simple as possible

[idle chasm]

The simplest possible explanation is very rarely simple

[sturdy totem]

yes

that's why, emphasis on "as possible"

[full talon]

The main difference between the mind of a mathmatician and a normal person is that mathmatician care a lot about formal definitions and logic implicactions when they do deductions

[compact night]

not really

simplicity is subjective

[sturdy totem]

bro I messaged here last year

go get a job