Sourav Chatterjee: Advice to Young Mathematicians (2024)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 ก.ย. 2024
- Sourav Chatterjee shares his advice to young mathematicians.
Sourav Chatterjee is an Indian mathematician, specializing in mathematical statistics and probability theory.
Sourav advice.
1. You can't make a plan for the future. Life just happens to you. Make use of every opportunity that vomes your way.
2. You'll find people who are better at math than you.
3. There's difference between working under time pressure and not working under time pressure. Doing well in exams and doing well in research is completely different. One may excel at both but you dont need to be good at exams to do well in research.
4. You do not need to qualify all exams or participate in competitive maths to excel in maths.
5. Resist the temptation to take highly paid jobs. It will rob you of your freedom. The most important thing in life is to be free.
6. Creativity is an important thing. it's the main reward you get for being a scientist or mathematician in addition to being free.
Thanks bro
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love 5 and especially 6
He should also add that one should avoid working with predatory math advisors who have never made an A* publication, as you may end up being a slave to their expectations.
Exactly
Try doing PhD from actual mathematicians. You don't have to worry about these issues
Indian statistical institute ❤❤❤
Try to go there and make India proud.
It's better to discover than to read it from somewhere. This kind of philosophy this man has! Quite a nice approach. A great mathematician from India.
Wasn't expecting that. Great advice about the freedom to create.
Only thing I would add is that once you take the blue pill (hedgefund job) there's usually no coming back.
Freeness --as You have said --makes Our mimd free. I am happy that this Advice that you have given us from Your Life Experience & from Your accomplished Life. I have just listened this Advice on our Independence Day--- A Day of Freedom that you have Cherished.
It is a mental trap that you really need the kind of money that easy financial channels offer you. Freedom is far more precious. Every single day of life lived with freedom, dignity and happiness is and should be the real prize to aim for.
Thank you so much Prof. for your advice. Lots of love from INDIA :-)
Really inspirational ❤
This is one of the best YT videos
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Why did he say no good place to study physics duting his times? There was Presidency College, IITs, IISc etc.!
Study from the pov of research. In India, even today higher education is hamstrung by budget. The govt this time reduced the budget by 16.8% in Higher Education. At the same time issued tax notices worth crores to IITs while giving tax break of 5 years to Patanjali group.
@@sagarbehera Right. BJP govt destroying higher education.
@@sagarbehera there is no problem in giving tax break to patanjali group. The enourmous pharma industry wouldnt have been there if they didnt have a tax holiday of 20 years. Same for IT industry who had a tax holiday for 10 years. The problem is with taxing research grants through gst. Its nonsensical
@@sagarbehera IITs haven't produced shit for India, just freeloaders who study on tax payer's money and immigrate to serve US.
Often high paid jobs have better WLB than low paid jobs.
he's talkig about following your passion and purpose , not starving for the fun of it , you people are projecting your own insecurities here lol
@@titanicisshit1647 I don't disagree but he is speaking to a wider audience not everyone wants to do a PhD.
@@moviesfan5513 and?he's not specifically talking about people who want to do a phd lol
At that place, people who attended are all academically ambitious rather than driven by financial and superficial ambitions. So if you want to lose your freedom and you think you would find more fulfillment with money over passion, be everyone's guest, but not my guest. This is not a wide audience, please go elsewhere and let the academics be academics.
@@samadritobhattacharyya4757 There is no shortage of academics leaving academia due to lower wages. How old are you by the way ? The young man knows the rule the old man knows the exception.
dOn'T mAKE mOnEy
People like these are pathetic. Just stuck in their own bubble.
what kind of a bubble is he stuck in?
That isn't what he said, but alright.
@@himadrimandal8548 You will realise that's what he said when you waste your life doing a PhD. You still have much to learn about how academia works little undergrad baby.
In this world he,me or you we can't be satisfying any one things. He already past his half life's journey. If you don't love him don't judge him. If your way is best then go yarrrr.
Seems like you are too frustrated with life due to your work life stress. Calm down baby. It's his advise. Feel free to not take it. No need to be a crying baby.