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Do you believe that mathematicians are dry, cold fish, serious and introverted people!!?

I heard something that caused me to create this discussion....

Do you believe that  mathematicians (or any majors which are dealt with mathematics) are dry, cold fish, serious and introverted people!!? why?

Do you think that we can judge a part of people's personality according to their major? 

2018年1月12日 17:55
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Little-known fact: Four out of three people struggle with math.
2018年1月13日
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Many of my close friends at university were physicists. Not mathematicians but pretty close. And they were all lunatics. The mathematicians I knew were all pretty outgoing as well. So no, this is not my experience at all. I am reminded of a joke though, related to this subject. 

How do you know when you've met an outgoing mathematician?

They stare at your shoes instead of their own.

2018年1月12日
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What? Who is that mathematically illiterate who even dare to say mathematicians cold and dry!?:) Well, at least my father has a very good reputation even after being a math teacher:) Mathematics is a language and those who don't understand it, might find it tough or even annoying.
2018年1月12日
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In the case of mathematics--university-level mathematics, not accounting or arithmetic--I think we can guess at an association with personality. It is not so much that mathematicians are cold or dry, it's that they are intensely focussed inward.

I actually had a discussion with this once with someone, and dragged out a college yearbook from a year that wasn't ours (so consisted only of strangers). We went through the pictures trying to guess who was a math major, just from the picture. There might have been pictures of 400 students, of whom perhaps 20 were math majors. I picked out about ten people as "looking like math majors." So I missed about ten. Of the ten I picked, about eight actually were math majors, and one was a physicist. Yes, there is a "look" to them.


2018年1月13日
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It would be unfair if I judged people on their majors

Maybe our personalities effected by what we study and learn however we can't generalize

I still remember most not all of my math teachers were strict ,coldfish and harsh because of them I hate math and I was very weak at math

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