A misconception

Alan 发表于 2010-01-13 10:48:55

It may well be that individuals who are attracted into mathematics have a certain talent for pan-mathematical reflection - a delight in categorizing objects to an utmost extent, finding curious ambiguities in both quantitative and qualitative aspets, establishing then questioning heuristic and/or intuitive formulation, looking for proofs and disproofs, and the like - and that professional training as a mathematician only amplifies this proclivity. It would then be no surprise that mathematicians' sense of what is interesting in mathematics is different from that of our friends in the industrial world or in other sciences. It is just that we mathematicians have made the mistake of assuming everyone else is like us.
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