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Did you read the article? It doesn't say anything like he just woke up one day and changed majors, but that he made a connection in a class that most people dr
by cma 1y ago
Did you read the article? It doesn't say anything like he just woke up one day and changed majors, but that he made a connection in a class that most people dropped out of with a research professor.
- monkeyelite 1y agoYeah and which class was that? Calc 1?
- cma 1y agoIt wasn't at Princeton, not a class he had to get access to. Says the class had 200 people in it--wow the big exclusive club he used dirty family connections to get into to cheat at winning the Fields Medal: a class with 200 people enrolled.
- monkeyelite 1y agoHis father is a Statistics professor and he was taking a graduate level math course (algebraic geometry) from a Field’s medalist. This is a course nobody but math majors would take: > In that sixth year, he enrolled in a class taught by the famed Japanese mathematician Heisuke Hironaka, who won the Fields Medal in 1970 > Ostensibly, the course was an introduction to algebraic geometry, the study of solutions to algebraic equations and their geometric properties You seem weirdly personally invested in this: > the big exclusive club he used dirty family connections I didn’t say anything like that - I’m just saying the article wants to suggest he just happened into math and that’s clearly not the case.