>be me, math PhD student>need to write dissertation>remember Grothendieck's quote "Fuck everyone, do your own shit. We don't read books. We write them." >spend 8 months inventing mathematics barely reading any papers or books. Just here and there when I need to refresh something.">Invent 110 pages of elementary mathematics.>Hit a roadblock and can't make any new theorems>Too bad at problem solving to solve popular unsolved problems.>Mathematical career is over now, because I can't do research anymore. I just got lucky finding a small elementary niche other people hadn't explored before.Thanks Grothendieck. :')
>Grothendieck was born in Berlin in 1928 to a Russian Jewish father and a German Protestant mother
>>16549005git gud
This is who your tax dollars are going to btw
>>16549005>>Invent 110 pages of elementary mathematicspeak pseudery. You’re not a math PhD student, OP. If you were, your PI would have told you to cut the bullshit already.
>>16549453How do I unsubscribe from paying to OP?
>PhD>Doctor of philosophy>Mathematics>Philosophydo americans really?
>>16549005>Fuck everyone, do your own shit. We don't read books. We write them.chat is this real
>>16550221I tell you only one word that comes into my mind when I hear about how taxes are spend: "defenestration".
>>16550606"Fuck everyone. Do your own shit."-Grothendieck
>>16549005If you were a PhD student you would know your advisor is most often the one guiding you on what to work on.
>>16550606The guy was the definition of a crackpot, insane genius. OP is either a complete idiot or trolling.
>>16550594youre insanely retarded
>>16553347Not OP but my advisor’s “guidance” boiled down to meeting him once in a blue moon to discuss funding that may or may not have been approved for the zillionth time that year. They call it the “hands off” approach. I don’t think the guy read my stuff even once, but I still got my piece of paper somehow. Academia is a fucking joke desu.
>>16550606>>16553341Surely Grothendieck read some books too, not just wrote them?
>>16549005Very humorous, but I don't believe you. Post dissertation.
