Scientists on Reddit

Jordan Ellenberg

Mathematician, author of How Not to Be Wrong

How we know it's theirs

The 2018 r/science AMA, posted from this account

We retrieved 4 posts and 74 comments from u/Jordan-Ellenberg, dated 2018 to 2021, most often in r/science, r/IAmA and r/Lyft.

Best moment

A redditor wrote in r/science

On “I’m Jordan Ellenberg, author of How Not To Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking, and I’m on this week's NOVA: “Prediction By The Numbers.” Ask me anything about mathematics, predicting the future, predicting the future of mathematics, data, and number theory!”

How do you improve your math skills where subjects such as calc becomes easy to understand. Im just tired of everyone around me telling me how easy derivatives are and how stupid i look when i tell them its hard for ms

u/Jordan-Ellenberg replied

Math isn't easy to understand. It's hard to understand. There's a reason it took thousands of years of mathematical progress to get to calculus! The worst thing a teacher can say is "This is simple." It isn't simple! But it's…

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Math isn't easy to understand. It's hard to understand. There's a reason it took thousands of years of mathematical progress to get to calculus!

The worst thing a teacher can say is "This is simple." It isn't simple! But it's doable, with work.

The problem isn't you, it's the people around you.

More moments

In a thread on r/science

I’m Jordan Ellenberg, author of How Not To Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking, and I’m on this week's NOVA: “Prediction By The Numbers.” Ask me anything about mathematics, predicting the future, predicting the future of mathematics, data, and number theory!

u/Jordan-Ellenberg replied

Are you going to be trampled and left in the dust by brilliant kids? Well, we all are, eventually, right? In math, there is always someone stronger/faster/more advanced than you. That is not a reason not to do it. If…

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Are you going to be trampled and left in the dust by brilliant kids? Well, we all are, eventually, right? In math, there is always someone stronger/faster/more advanced than you. That is not a reason not to do it. If it were, there would only be one mathematician. That would stink.

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