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"Math is a game for the young."
Not so fast: "Major mathematical advances past age fifty"
Why was this down voted? The comic is a take on a fairly prevalent belief, heck, Hardy said it!
I wish more people on this forum would explain why they were down voting something, that on the face of it, seems reasonable.
I'm up voting this.
EDIT: When I posted this, I was of the opinion that the comic was just giving a funny take on the maths is a young man's game thing. Now, after looking it several times, I am of the opinion that it was trying to poke fun of this said misconception. And, giving the benefit of doubt to the original poster, I still stand by my upvote.
Let's find an archaeologist to exhume the remains of the long since dead reader who downvoted that comment a mere 52 months ago. Who knows what his thought process was? Did he hunt saber-tooths and not appreciate the cave-man like quality of XKCD stick figures? And where did he even get his computer, or did he MacGyver a Turing Machine out of sticks and stones?
Turns out he's still alive!
I did. I didn't want to explain why because it's a long conversation I don't want to have, but basically I think this quote promotes a misleading conception of mathematics. For the record, Hardy is thought to have been suffering from depression when he wrote this.
Am I misreading the comic? It appears to be making fun of that quote. Maybe it's more haha only serious than I thought?
EDIT: By the way, I upvoted you even though I think you may have misinterpreted the comic in question, as I am in favor of people explaining their downvotes. Keep up the good work!
I know, and I've read too, that Hardy was apparently not in the pink when he said this. And in all honesty the comic seems to be making fun of the conception that maths was for the young.
Me too. (Not sure that a link to that xkcd comic in this context “on the face of it, seems reasonable”, though.)
Does a link to a comic have a place in this forum? I don't know the answer to that, perhaps it is not. That said, my comment was more a reaction to other down votes, this just happened to be the straw I was commenting on.
(I meant “context” not “comment” BTW -- fixed that.)
Yes. I've posted such links myself. But that particular one seems to me to have very dubious topicality.
Really? I think, after staring at it for some time, that the comic is making fun of the thinking that maths is a young man's game.