[ysofunny]

you seem to be missing this idea that mathematics must be doable alone, individually

this appears to be what sets mathematics appart from science? I mean, it's not like Euler, or Poincaré, and so on, are really there with you when "doing math"

point being, mathematics is not a team game. but everything else is??

[gus_massa]

When I'm teaching congruence or the Gauss method to solve equation systems, I tell my students: "You can solve the midterm alone or with the ghost of Gauss sit on the side chair."

[jerf]

I like that. "Standing on the shoulder of giants" is a fairly common way to phrase this, and it captures truth as well, but "on a team with the greatest mathematicians of history" is pretty fun too.

Pity I'm by far the weakest link in such team-ups. :)

[mcphage]

> point being, mathematics is not a team game. but everything else is??

Sorry, it’s early, and I can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic. I hope you are? Mathematics is very much a team game.

[celticninja]

i think based on the username they seem to be looking for validation through upvotes. Perhaps assuming this place is like a nerdier reddit.

[ysofunny]

actually, reddit is a mainstream hacker news

to me old.reddit.com will always be reddit.com

[celticninja]

Ah I never changed from old.reddit, I am sure the current version is entirely unrecognisable. It throws me sometimes when a comment mentions a users pfp, because wtf? Reddit doesn't have user profiles with pictures.