Timeline for Too old for advanced mathematics? [closed]
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| Feb 18, 2023 at 13:30 | history | left closed in review |
Alex M. Daniele Tampieri Yemon Choi |
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| Apr 24, 2022 at 16:26 | history | left closed in review |
Michael Albanese Mark Wildon Johannes Hahn |
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| Oct 14, 2020 at 5:25 | comment | added | Timothy | like the teacher which isn't reasonable to expect everyone to be able to do. | |
| Oct 14, 2020 at 5:24 | comment | added | Timothy | I can't be bothered to read all the answers and don't want to repeat an answer by mistake so I'll write it here. Here is what I think. People don't get too old to learn. They can see and notice things in the stuff they're reading. However, they can't be sure the author really meant what they saw and noticed in it. We're not gods. We can't make it so that what ever is going on with researchers, will will be able to figure out what it is. It needs to be their job to fully and clearly explain what's going on, not ours to figure it out. I think universities are testing people on ability to think | |
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| Mar 19, 2015 at 11:47 | comment | added | Zsbán Ambrus | You may consider asking this question on Mathematics Educators SE (which is a new site that didn't exist yet when you posted this), as matheducators.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic indicates questions about learning mathematics are on-topic there. | |
| S Jul 7, 2014 at 4:38 | history | suggested | CommunityBot | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 10, 2013 at 13:01 | review | Reopen votes | |||
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| Dec 24, 2011 at 19:03 | history | closed |
Felipe Voloch Gjergji Zaimi user9072 Bill Johnson user9198 |
no longer relevant | |
| Dec 24, 2011 at 17:45 | comment | added | user9072 | In my opinion the material collect so far on this subject seems sufficient to refelect a wide spectrum of opinions. I thus now vote to close. | |
| Dec 24, 2011 at 10:45 | answer | added | Steve | timeline score: 2 | |
| Dec 5, 2011 at 13:30 | answer | added | user37691 | timeline score: 5 | |
| Dec 5, 2011 at 3:14 | answer | added | Elizabeth S. Q. Goodman | timeline score: 5 | |
| Dec 4, 2011 at 16:49 | answer | added | Jonathan Ringstad | timeline score: 3 | |
| Dec 4, 2011 at 16:36 | comment | added | Dima Pasechnik | I got my 1st degree at 27, and it was in CS, not in maths. | |
| Dec 4, 2011 at 16:25 | answer | added | gggg gggg | timeline score: 4 | |
| Oct 5, 2011 at 12:15 | answer | added | sigma_z_1980 | timeline score: 0 | |
| Sep 24, 2011 at 21:10 | answer | added | Jeff Burdges | timeline score: 0 | |
| Nov 11, 2010 at 4:15 | answer | added | roy smith | timeline score: 46 | |
| Jun 7, 2010 at 4:24 | answer | added | Deane Yang | timeline score: 60 | |
| Jun 6, 2010 at 21:34 | answer | added | rhombidodecahedron | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jun 6, 2010 at 20:26 | answer | added | user6617 | timeline score: 5 | |
| Mar 4, 2010 at 16:32 | comment | added | Regenbogen | I know one mathematician who left math at the age of 20(with a B Sc), enrolled in grad school in his thirties and got Ph. D. in a very modern and hot topic, requiring lots of study and effort, by 38 or so. He is very good, in my view. So you shouldn't hesitate at all. | |
| Mar 4, 2010 at 15:25 | answer | added | Jaikrishnan | timeline score: 3 | |
| Mar 4, 2010 at 15:14 | answer | added | Per Alexandersson | timeline score: 0 | |
| Mar 4, 2010 at 4:48 | answer | added | amit kumar | timeline score: 5 | |
| Jan 26, 2010 at 0:06 | answer | added | The Mathemagician | timeline score: 39 | |
| Dec 25, 2009 at 8:09 | answer | added | Mike | timeline score: 6 | |
| Dec 19, 2009 at 2:54 | answer | added | Ryan Williams | timeline score: 48 | |
| Dec 18, 2009 at 22:23 | answer | added | Jeff | timeline score: 6 | |
| Dec 18, 2009 at 21:47 | answer | added | Philip L. Bowers | timeline score: 13 | |
| Dec 17, 2009 at 20:31 | answer | added | Alex Wong | timeline score: -1 | |
| Dec 17, 2009 at 20:14 | answer | added | Alex Wong | timeline score: 1 | |
| Dec 4, 2009 at 5:07 | answer | added | Kurt Luoto | timeline score: 11 | |
| Dec 3, 2009 at 20:34 | answer | added | Matt Jensen | timeline score: 7 | |
| Dec 2, 2009 at 20:30 | answer | added | Andrew | timeline score: 2 | |
| Dec 2, 2009 at 2:49 | answer | added | user1855 | timeline score: 0 | |
| Dec 1, 2009 at 19:17 | answer | added | PeterR | timeline score: 8 | |
| Dec 1, 2009 at 8:20 | answer | added | user577 | timeline score: 1 | |
| Dec 1, 2009 at 3:56 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by David Zureick-Brown | ||
| Nov 29, 2009 at 23:31 | answer | added | Michael Hoffman | timeline score: 12 | |
| Nov 29, 2009 at 22:38 | answer | added | user2172 | timeline score: 2 | |
| Nov 29, 2009 at 20:47 | answer | added | Elizabeth Henning | timeline score: 22 | |
| Nov 29, 2009 at 18:03 | answer | added | Saad | timeline score: 9 | |
| Nov 29, 2009 at 17:54 | answer | added | user455 | timeline score: 7 | |
| Nov 29, 2009 at 17:35 | answer | added | Cotton Seed | timeline score: 36 | |
| Nov 29, 2009 at 12:27 | answer | added | Michael Benfield | timeline score: 16 | |
| Nov 29, 2009 at 11:29 | answer | added | Gerald Edgar | timeline score: 2 | |
| Nov 29, 2009 at 9:51 | answer | added | Georges Elencwajg | timeline score: 64 | |
| Nov 29, 2009 at 9:47 | comment | added | Jonas Meyer | No, of course not, do what you like! As you can see at Kim Greene's link, there are certainly examples of people starting late. But this is really a person to person thing, and no one can predict how you (or an 18-year-old) will fare. | |
| Nov 29, 2009 at 9:45 | answer | added | Pete L. Clark | timeline score: 105 | |
| Nov 29, 2009 at 8:54 | comment | added | Kim Greene | There is a question about mathematicians that learned mathematics at a late age. mathoverflow.net/questions/3591/… | |
| Nov 29, 2009 at 8:44 | history | asked | MattyZ | CC BY-SA 2.5 |