Po Shen Loh's Advice For High School Students Who Want To Major In Math

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[@OmicronGaming]

Good old epsilon/epsilon-delta proofs, just started my math major at UCLA this year and love all these proofs, analysis, and generalizations to different dimensions and spaces. It makes math more of an “art” rather than a “process”

[@sabe607]

Yo Omicron hi

[@awesokestephen3494]

OMICRON YOOO

[@dqrksun]

Wtf why are you here

[@prithujsarkar2010]

gamer ~ maffs :D

[@dusscode]

for some reason, I now have a lot more respect to you since you’re majoring in pure math xD

[@amaymnair4558]

Junior Classes : What do the numbers mean , mason Secondary Classes : What do the letters mean , mason

[@Ghost____Rider]

University: what do the Greek letters mean, mason

[@timotejmlakar4502]

I’m starting my math major in october, this was certainly something I had to see🥰

[@DrandelSheep]

Wish I saw this 3 years ago. Rip me.

[@drpeyam]

I love this so much!!!

[@songlovers4348]

Both of you are my favorite teacher , big fan from india

[@vogelvogeltje]

I’m a 31 year old physics major that just restarted my college journey this year. Your videos helped me to understand that math is actually fun, like a big puzzle. I used to be addicted to drugs, party a lot, but now that I am older, and a little more wiser, I’m actually finding myself having joy in my math classes. Thank you, based BPRP.

[@wistfulgraph]

It’s like learning a language I guess. You don’t “memorize” what every word’s definition is. And for math, you don’t memorize the exact proof of something.

[@Ghost____Rider]

Maths *is* a language

[@aayushshrivastava2072]

I see 2 Asians laughing.......... Me as an Asian: also starts laughing

[@vivekchandwani6596]

🤣

[@spacelogisticsinc468]

LOL. The end part's relatable

[@LaBrantMath]

My abstract algebra prof made us read the textbook during class all together and in the college way because he was convinced (correctly so) that we had never learned how to properly read a college level math textbook.

[@mathyland4632]

Oh hey this was my question! I'm really happy with how that livestream was set up so he could get to peoples' questions. Thanks!

[@theimmux3034]

Real good advice, memorizing isn't learning but understanding is

[@absbi0000]

Love the absolute joy in these guys faces discussing math.

[@emerald3324]

I see that epsilon over three is an inside joke, that only proper mathematicians would get :(

[@Eps398]

Absolutely true. To get the joke you have to get through the pain first, for which you have to read the first course on Real Analysis, pal!

[@DynestiGTI]

Just take one analysis course and you'll know the pain

[@applealvin9167]

YAY I got the ε/3 joke LOL

[@silvally4992]

I gave my math olympiad exam today. And I am depressed with the idea that only 7 of them were correct out of 10!

[@justinpark939]

Thanks for the advice. I am the equivalent of a junior in HS and seeing this advice prior to choosing this major (maybe not, but I hope it is this) makes me feel less in the dark about things.

[@lalalalalalalala390]

Yeeees that's so true!!

[@chessandmathguy]

This is gold.

[@Bobbius-il9rf]

Love it! I'm a maths uni student who essenitally tries to treat maths as a game still. 1) You start off a complete idiot but you just play around because you don't feel worthy of the excellence already written below the theorem. 2) You try a few things, get annoyed, look at a little hint and laugh at how silly you were for going in silly directions. 3) You use that hint and you'll get so far and get to a block again. 4) Rinse and repeat until eventually you think you've got to a proof. 5) See whether your proof is the same or different to the one that's there and consider why it is the same or different in the relevant case (it could be wrong or yours could in fact be more elegant - which is a personal thing but at least more elegant to you). 6) Don't stop there! Once you've done that I'd recommend looking into the name behind the proof, maybe even the history behind the proof, as it will allow you to remember it much more easily. If you can get into the mind of the person whose name got attached to that proof, your appreciation for it (and the likelihood of you remembering it) will quadruple at a minimum. Remember most of a (professional) mathematician's work, even brilliant ones is entirely "stupid" working that goes in the wrong direction...it's only after a long time of taking it in the wrong directions do they finally write up the beautiful thing in the end for others to enjoy. :) Even Terence Tao said he didn't know you could get paid to do maths when he was a kid (interview on KZbin I saw), once you realise the answer to why they get paid and what exactly they get paid for... that's an appreciation of the mathematical working life and it will give you a clear (much clearer at least) picture for why you should bother putting the effort in to do maths things. Surely the working life of a professional mathematician is essentially the same as the procedure above but instead of having a solution already there to consult, you go in more wrong directions, you get annoyed and talk to colleagues, you get annoyed again as you can't proceed so you procrastinate and get coffee... lots of "Oh yes!....Nope, idiot!..."Surely that's it!...Nope so stupid sometimes!"...""I don't even trust myself anymore...could be right...hey John can you have a look at this? John: Yeah seems solid to me well done. You say: Thanks, Inside: "BOOM, what an idiot I was! how could that possibly take me so long, now where's my 1 million dollars at and who's writing my name down for the theorem?" 🤣 Then humility returns and you realise every little detail has to be scrutinised first so you forget about it and do something else. Then one day someone gives you a phone call which goes: "Other: Hi there, I have some good news for you, You: Sarcastic: Do you now?!, Other: You've been awarded the Fields medal, You: Stop messing around, I'm at work [doing absolutely nothing but watching cat videos], Other: no sir, understand your proof has been verified, you are going to be receiving the Fields medal. You: Sarcastic: Damn! I better buy myself a decent suit then, Other: Further details will follow with the specifics and we will email them to you. You: Okay thanks for the good news." *hangs up* 2 days go by and the slow realisation dawns on you after niggling at the back of your mind for a while. Then you get the legit email... but being a mathematician you still don't believe it, I mean "I know proof and this isn't proof! Where's the rigour in this email?" Getting the medal: "Thanks everyone! (But do you all actually exist I mean I can't prove that...shhhh)" Is that about right? 🤣🤣 Ideally, the adults would provide the inspiration and clear pictures of what it means to be a mathematician, but you/we as students must go through the perspiration to get there. XD

[@shurjoaunibar]

"And then buh-buh-buh-buh-buh all these words" I love how he isn't that formal. That's how he sounds like he knows what he's talking 'bout.

[@omaral-aghbari681]

Great advice!!!!

[@songlovers4348]

Really helpfull

[@Siddhartha_Gogoi]

Thanks I am going to take Major in Maths

[@danielbanoe4196]

My role models. I love you guys

[@fatemehparvizi6981]

Thanks,It was great advice

[@draaagoo7799]

That's a great advice 👍

[@redder02]

What a great advice...

[@PTGaonkar]

That's amazing

[@miriotogata7487]

Love to see it

[@srividhyamoorthy761]

This guy would even try to prove e = mc² lol

[@52.yusrilihsanadinatanegar79]

I like this!

[@vikrantraina529]

Why this video came after my college. I did started losing interest in math in my cllg time.

[@amaymnair4558]

It's the truth 👍👍😢

[@itzani8051]

Sir you start teaching physics as well, it'll be wonderful 😂❤️... love from India ♥️

[@aravinds3846]

Dude bprp is a math professor, physics is not his forte , considering the vast theory and the minor calculations of high school -college physics it’s kind of an insult coz for someone like bprp their talent would be wasted studying the theory and the lacklustre calculations and roundabout problems which are no where as near as demanding as the problems he posts on yt and solves

[@itzani8051]

@@aravinds3846 but bro, maths is always there in Physics, I'm just talking bout the tricks and all those stuffs😂

[@aravinds3846]

@@itzani8051 Those tricks are not worth to be taught by a maths teacher tho. Try alok pandey or Tibees. They are very good in physics

[@itzani8051]

@E Cult I was talking for some unique tricks and some mathematical fun

[@theimmortalphysicsmaths3962]

2 legends are here

[@user-ir8nd6mj2b]

lim 8 8 → 9

[@RhysJosmin]

I do thisss 😌

[@singhsaab6422]

Please give a heart Sir

[@vedantdas1606]

Just two Asians talking about math

[@amaymnair4558]

First