Originally Posted by
gixajo
Whatever you say.
You have everything you need in your hands, with curiosity, interest and effort, you should be able to learn up to the limit that you propose for yourself (or maybe don´t).
If that academic paper speaks about 4 SNPs that could be related to the ability in mathematics, and recognizes that many other SNPs that are still unknown, could surely influence also that ability (maybe even canceling the effect of any of those 4 initially related), and you have solely one of those 4 SNPs, and title the thread as "I have
high acute genetic math ability" seems to me quite "unrealistic"a title of this thread.
The thread title is a bit of hyperbole but I clarified it in the subject matter.
No, having those 4 SNPs doesn't make you especially gifted at being a great mathematician, in the same way that having the right SNPs for good eyesight doesn't make you a great picture painter.
Mathematicians know two things that everyone else doesn't : the driving force behind mathematics is 'beauty' and that all mathematics can be derived from a few fundamental axioms. Engineers and scientists wrongly assume that learning mathematics is like learning a large book full of algorithms or rules etc... and no mathematics is more like sculpture than painting :
“Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty—a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show.”--Bertrand Russell
And remember that the "maths" used in that study to find that conclusion are statistics to a large degree. And using statistics it is very easy to fall into the typical causal fallacy of "cum hoc ergo propter hoc".
I see no evidence of p-hacking :
https://bitesizebio.com/31497/guilty-p-hacking/
I'm also well aware that it used statistics that is why I used the qualifier 'probably' in my original first post in this thread.
In any case, if you are going to take the subject seriously, I especially recommend number theory, there could be nothing more beautiful in maths.
Yep, you seem to know what you are talking about when it comes to maths. Number theory is like the zen garden of maths. You know Gauss called number theory “the queen of mathematics,” the purest of the pure subjects, the sealed garden at the center of the convent, where you contemplate the same questions about numbers and equations that troubled the Greeks and have gotten hardly less vexing in the twenty-five hundred years since.
Dude, I know a lot more about math than I let on I'm just saying I'm thinking of focusing more on it than I have been. Anyway, it is good to see you know more about math than the average person
Getting into that branch of math is better than a good LSD trip.
I outgrew LSD I have not done it in at least 20 years or more.
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