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march 6, 2018
hello to anyone who is reading this.
in this post i want to share some things or views which i feel or do happen in my life. I am a happy guy. although it doesnt reflect from what people say about my face. Maybe i look like an angry man but i feel content(not most of the time). it feels so bad when i am not able to solve a problem or continue to do what i want to do. Maybe beacause of my habits or the point that i want to learn many things at the same time but end up learning nothing.
okay let's talk about PE(projecteuler.net). it is a website that contains more than 600 problems which are continously being posted since 2002, one per week. i was introduced to this website through a column in TOI(i think, i dont exactly remember how i end up with something good.) about 11 months ago. reading up the problems my first goal was to solve 10 problems in a year. but i have ended up solving 40 problems as of now(two of the answers copied from internet and some with help from a genius and others by myself, although i understand how to solve each one of those solved problems). in a year i have suggested this website to a whole lot of people including my teachers as well. PE introduced me to the realm of mathematics and specially number theory. and it also made me know how weak my maths is( i have said it a lot - "i dont know anything or my math aint good or i hate maths"). but ultimately maths is wonderful and beautiful(if you want other adjectives you may prefer to people who are math geniuses). it also made me know about a whole lot of other things Euler and his totient, ramanujan & partition ,diophantus, euclid, congruences, residue arithmatic, GCD, Fermat, pythagoras, pascal, gauss, prime numbers, twin prime problem, milliennum prize problems, andrew wiles et cetera. The PE addiction is higher than drugs(i dont take drugs). the problem is always in your mind. you see it you visualize, you check it, write it, code it and finally solve it. you want to see that green tick when you submit the answer. and after you have solved it there are whole lot of other ways and wonderful people.
and that's where it all starts. the only person i met on PE and whom i chat with is 'him'.the Math guy from south. A genius in maths. he knows everything, almost. pursued Btech. with another discipline and pursued MBA and then started on PE three years ago. and have started proposing problems too! it amazes me that people are excellent in almost every field. if you read his blog you will know it yourself(am-just-a-nobody.blogspot.in). he has solved about 420 problems! one other quality of him is that he is a very good teacher. you can understand everything even if he is explaining through chat. whenever i think of him i realize how much time i have wasted and how much i am gonna waste more. it makes me feel stupid that i dont know anything. but then i also want to be like him and that makes it worse.
The fact that i dont read or study consiously hits me. to be like him i start on learning something new but then there is something which have to learnt before learning it and then again there is something that is to be learnt before that thing and so on. and then i find myself in vicious recursion and at somepoint overflow occurs and alas i am not doing anything! that is the biggest of the problems. i am not able to connect the dots between the things i have learnt because i havent learnt anything completely. Not able to solve a particular problem gives me painless headache.
i dont know how would i solve this bigger problem to solve those problems. Maybe one day i will rise above all.
hello to anyone who is reading this.
in this post i want to share some things or views which i feel or do happen in my life. I am a happy guy. although it doesnt reflect from what people say about my face. Maybe i look like an angry man but i feel content(not most of the time). it feels so bad when i am not able to solve a problem or continue to do what i want to do. Maybe beacause of my habits or the point that i want to learn many things at the same time but end up learning nothing.
okay let's talk about PE(projecteuler.net). it is a website that contains more than 600 problems which are continously being posted since 2002, one per week. i was introduced to this website through a column in TOI(i think, i dont exactly remember how i end up with something good.) about 11 months ago. reading up the problems my first goal was to solve 10 problems in a year. but i have ended up solving 40 problems as of now(two of the answers copied from internet and some with help from a genius and others by myself, although i understand how to solve each one of those solved problems). in a year i have suggested this website to a whole lot of people including my teachers as well. PE introduced me to the realm of mathematics and specially number theory. and it also made me know how weak my maths is( i have said it a lot - "i dont know anything or my math aint good or i hate maths"). but ultimately maths is wonderful and beautiful(if you want other adjectives you may prefer to people who are math geniuses). it also made me know about a whole lot of other things Euler and his totient, ramanujan & partition ,diophantus, euclid, congruences, residue arithmatic, GCD, Fermat, pythagoras, pascal, gauss, prime numbers, twin prime problem, milliennum prize problems, andrew wiles et cetera. The PE addiction is higher than drugs(i dont take drugs). the problem is always in your mind. you see it you visualize, you check it, write it, code it and finally solve it. you want to see that green tick when you submit the answer. and after you have solved it there are whole lot of other ways and wonderful people.
and that's where it all starts. the only person i met on PE and whom i chat with is 'him'.the Math guy from south. A genius in maths. he knows everything, almost. pursued Btech. with another discipline and pursued MBA and then started on PE three years ago. and have started proposing problems too! it amazes me that people are excellent in almost every field. if you read his blog you will know it yourself(am-just-a-nobody.blogspot.in). he has solved about 420 problems! one other quality of him is that he is a very good teacher. you can understand everything even if he is explaining through chat. whenever i think of him i realize how much time i have wasted and how much i am gonna waste more. it makes me feel stupid that i dont know anything. but then i also want to be like him and that makes it worse.
The fact that i dont read or study consiously hits me. to be like him i start on learning something new but then there is something which have to learnt before learning it and then again there is something that is to be learnt before that thing and so on. and then i find myself in vicious recursion and at somepoint overflow occurs and alas i am not doing anything! that is the biggest of the problems. i am not able to connect the dots between the things i have learnt because i havent learnt anything completely. Not able to solve a particular problem gives me painless headache.
i dont know how would i solve this bigger problem to solve those problems. Maybe one day i will rise above all.
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