How do you even cope

>was solving differential equations at 12
>finished school at 13

>"He was interested and equally competent in every aspect of physics and the participants in his seminar did not find it easy to follow his train of thought in instantaneously switching from the discussion of, say, the properties of "strange" particles to the discussion of the energy spectrum of electrons in silicon."

>"To Landau himself listening to the papers was never an empty formality: he did not rest until the essence of a study was completely elucidated and all traces of "philology" — unproved statements or propositions made on the principle of "why might it not" — therein were eliminated. As a result of such discussion and criticism many studies were condemned as "pathology" and Landau completely lost interest in them."

>"On the other hand, articles that really contained new ideas or findings remained in Landau's memory forever. In fact, usually, it was sufficient for him to know just the guiding idea of a study in order to reproduce all of its findings. He found it easier to obtain them on his own than to follow in detail the author's reasoning. In this way, he reproduced for himself and profoundly thought out most of the basic results obtained in all the domains of theoretical physics."
>"This probably also was the reason for his phenomenal ability to answer practically any question concerning physics that might be asked of him."

>"He always strove to simplify complex things, to uncover in the most lucid manner the genuine simplicity of the laws underlying the natural phenomena."
>"He always worked hard (never at a desk, usually reclining on a divan at home)."
>"His opinions about women, expressed loudly and often, seem adolescent in their naivety and crudeness."

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  1. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >jew
    >promoted "polyamory" in his life
    >insufferable materialist israeli attitude
    Yikes

  2. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I cope with a wild Grothendieck

    >wins fields medal
    >creates Algebraic Geometry
    >becomes literal wizard

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >Grothendieck was born in Berlin to anarchist parents. His father, Alexander "Sascha" Schapiro (also known as Alexander Tanaroff), had Hasidic israeli roots
      Such a surprise. Surely, "algebraic geometry" is something very important.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        kys brainlet

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >Surely, "algebraic geometry" is something very important.

        https://www.ias.edu/ideas/2007/algebraic-geometry-interface

        >“Whereas with Einstein it was differential geometry that was the most relevant, for modern theoretical physics it is algebraic geometry. Algebraic geometry is the central aspect of geometry for the physicists now.”

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          As far as I remember, modern physics has not made a new correct prediction in about 50 years or so.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            I predict your brain will atrophy into a set of handy memes, by which you will communicate with the staff at your nursing home.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Damn, he looked great young. The norwood reaper doesn't forgive.

  3. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    by numbers
    not everyone is world class mega genius scientist
    how many like him can you find the last century?
    50, 100? gonna bet it doesn't reach even close to 1000
    yet there're tens of thousands physicists graduating every year

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >how many like him can you find the last century?
      We are already in an era of stagnation, pic. related.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >turing turns 30
        >becomes bonger lord of computer science
        gay death is a hell of a drug

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        There is no trend whatsoever in this plot. All we can tell is that the average is 35 with a standard deviation of 8.
        Here is the data, I autistically extracted the points one by one
        https://pastebin.com/0QTvcdjT

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Also, adding to , from past experience reading this kind of science analysis, the rate of scientific progress has remained constant in the last 100 years, while the number of researchers has grown exponentially. So the progress per capita is going to zero.
          Lots of interesting things are happening in science. Recently I have been very impressed by deep learning language models like GPT and variants.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            is GPT and variants considered science or engineering?
            like they expand our theoretical knowledge or are better applications of what we currently have?

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            I call it science, you have existing data (language) and want to create a model that reproduces this data. It's empyrical and converges, just like physics

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Shut up, Luke.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          what if you make of a histogram of them?

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            More great researchers over time? I don't know what to make of it.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >There is no trend whatsoever in this plot.
          Look closer. Once we had real scientists such as Faraday, Pasteur, Curie, Pauling and more. Now? These days we have to pad the diagram with people like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates to avoid making the utter collapse clear.

          this chart may well have selection bias, and calls steve jobs a scientist

          Few of the recent decades in that diagram qualify as real scientists.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >At what age do scientists do their best work?
        >Scientists
        >steve jobs

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        this chart may well have selection bias, and calls steve jobs a scientist

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >yet there're tens of thousands physicists graduating every year
      That won't help us in overcoming the knowledge event horizon. The low hanging fruits were picked a long time ago.

  4. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    The overwhelming majority of people are not born as gifted as this, nor is this gift even a guarantee of personal success.
    Stop caring and just be glad you weren't born a midwit.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >mfw I'm a complete midwit and live a basic middle class life renting a small apartment, jerking off, playing video games and coding and doing my work from home and it's good enough for me
      >mfw I'm stupid and literally do not give a shit if anyone thinks they're smarter than me or if I'm worse than anybody else because it literally does not affect my comfy life in any way.

      BigBrainlets on suicide watch

  5. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I simply don't care

  6. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I had an actual childhood.

  7. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >finished school at 13
    Litetally how, that's the part that really grinds my gears.

    Even assuming that the kid is smart enough to do it, most places simply won't let him.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >most places simply won't let him
      Anon...
      We are talking about stuff that happened 90 years ago in Soviet Union. Not yesterday in Kentucky

  8. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    He was a israelite BTW

  9. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >Lev Landau believed in "free love" rather than monogamy and encouraged his wife and his students to practise "free love". However, his wife was not enthusiastic.

    I cope by not being degenerate israelite

  10. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    life's not a race anon

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