Jason Bourne

@TheGreatDuck Nothing, as usual.

My account will be deleted in 23 hours, bye everyone, good luck!

That is 12 years of life lost to learning almost nothing in school.

Have you wondered why you learn so few things from grade 1 to grade 12? Because they make you do the same thing over and over again...

When I take over the world I can change the math syllabus

Seems that the singer Chris Cornell just committed suicide. =(

ALL CAPS LOOK GREAT

Hey two people have thought that Waiting and I are the same person. Strange right?

And schools should give kids more options to choose what they want to learn more of or less of.

I think schools should teach people more about life. Life is hard and school doesn't prepare you for that.

@user16839 Maybe you can consider giving yourself a username other than userxxx. =)

Today my book Algebraic Number Theory by Neukirch arrived in the mail. Very nicely printed. =)

I think after I delete my account this time I will never return

Showing examples don't prove anything at all.

No idea why teachers keep not doing proofs in class.

A proof is just an explanation of why something is true. It's not magic.

In middle school, no proofs, in high school, wrong proofs, in college, not enough proofs.

I had bad math teachers at all levels.

It's wrong to solve equations in one direction and simply reject those that don't work, because the unrejected ones may not work either unless tested manually

And when people solve equations it should be checked that the steps are bidirectional.

The two column proofs are nonsense. Proofs should be written in sentences, lol.

The downgrading of math at school levels is a universal phenomenon.

If you are a smart 13 year old maybe you can learn all of high school math in 1 day. =)

I think I will delete my account soon. I will talk here for a few more days.

@Bob Most people in this room disagree with most things I say, and many put me on ignore mode

Mathematicians are from everywhere, it's true

I ain't

@PVAL-inactive The word 'irregardless' appears in merriam-webster.com, but of course, it is marked as nonstandard and people are advised to use 'regardless' instead.

Hello Nate.

And Bourbaki also defines a compact space such that it must be Hausdorff.

In French texts translated into English, positive sometimes means more than or equals to 0.

I think other than naturals including zero or not, there is also the issue of whether rings have one or not, how to define the fourier transform, and how to write subset and proper subset.

@Semiclassical I don't even know tau exists until a few months ago.

Just now I went to a rock band performance and some kids were like jumping around in a trance.

Bourbaki includes 0. Set theorists do too.

@Brody No need for that, just different conventions!

M16, in particular.

I have actually fired rifles before, you know.

I thought action is Hamiltonian. =)

says the next President Miller

Let us impeach Trump. It is time.

@Daminark Hey those business students could become Bill Gates and then give you a million bucks!

@Daminark I taught in some average schools here, and I can tell you this: The classroom behaviour is atrocious. The worst behaviour you see on TV is actually the best in reality.

I am not American so if someone can answer my question above it would be good.

Are the students in the average American high school very naughty?

@EricSilva Never say never again is also the title of a James Bond movie, lol.

@EricSilva Never say never. That's one of my favourite Justin Bieber songs...

@EricSilva Then emerge years later with a solution to a Millennium Problem, lol.

My account will be deleted in 23 hours, bye everyone, good luck!

@Piomicron 'Distaff' and 'counterpart' are both words. It depends on what you want to mean when you say them together. This also has nothing to do with GCSE or not.