why do people like that agree to be your advisor then? what’s the point? if you do nothing, why do you even agree to advise students?
does your advisor bother reading what you write?
why do people like that agree to be your advisor then? what’s the point? if you do nothing, why do you even agree to advise students?
If we made a thread about people refusing students you would get the dual response and someone asking why so and so wouldn’t take students.
All sorts of reasons. They don’t realize they are useless, the department pressures them, they haven’t tried yet and think they will be good advisors, who knows why people do things?
My adviser has a reputation for reading what his students write to a pathological degree. All his current students complain about the degree of oversight and the amount of thought he puts into the placement of a comma.
On the other hand, his former students universally agree that the process of dealing with idiosyncratic feedback has invariably made them better writers. Mathematics would benefit greatly if there were more advisers like mine.
hi AMM?
That's what top-tier scientists ACTUALLY do. They just read what is necessary, don't scout literature wasting time on incremental advances.
this post is glorious.
When a visitor asked the location of the IHES library, Grothendieck responded, "here we do not read books, we write them".
Let me guess, you’re an undergraduate.
Only idiots celebrate ignorance. Most of the genuinely great mathematicians I know have a tremendous command of the literature.
That's what top-tier scientists ACTUALLY do. They just read what is necessary, don't scout literature wasting time on incremental advances.
this post is glorious.
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