Mathematicians are very much like artists

Thu, 13 Oct 2022 15:36:22 -0400

Mathematicians are very much like artists in the sense that they won’t shut up about the need to “use your creativity.”

That being said I have yet to hear a math prof tell someone they need to take more creative risks, maybe that’s also in my future… hmm.

Mathematicians throw the word "creativity" around a lot

Wed, 06 Jul 2022 02:58:12 -0400

Mathematicians definitely spend just as much time throwing around the word “creativity” as people in more conventionally artistic fields.

I was reading a bunch of articles written by math people and noticed this, and then I remembered that the math contests I wrote in high school all had some spiel about expressing creativity on them.

I also found contest math to actually be interesting, despite being pretty disastrous at it (which… most people are too but still). Like I remember once banging my head against some practice problem until someone pointed out a super elegant solution to me and I was like, how does your brain even do that???? I hate the way math is taught in school.

Mathematicians on rkempe’s blog

Mathematicians are very much like artists

Mathematicians throw the word "creativity" around a lot