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Mathematics conferences are a huge ego boost (sopuli.xyz)
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[-] drolex@sopuli.xyz 19 points 3 weeks ago

In my (personal) experience, mathematicians have absolutely no difficulty to let their colleagues know when they don't understand a concept. It seems quite normal to reach your max level of abstraction in the field.

In physics, it can be seen as a weakness sometimes. And some people will pretend they always understand everything.

Not always true of course.

this post was submitted on 06 May 2026
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