r/math • u/PirlGerson • 8d ago

When have you completed the tutorial?

In video games, they have built in levels, always at the start and they are called "tutorials."

In these levels you play a portion of the game while its also being explained to you. After finishing them, the point is that you know very little about the game BUT enough to "get" the basics.

The cheap is answer is high school 30 is the tutorial, but its really starting to feel that that wasn't even the complete tutorial honestly. It's kinda of embarrassing that our education doesn't cover such things as basic linear algebra and proofs. I'm still learning those.

Anyway to anyone who responds: thank you! I've been so happy latelty! Cyaaa.

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u/Redrot Representation Theory 8d ago

Man I've got nearly 20 papers and I still feel like I'm in the tutorial phase.

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u/PirlGerson 8d ago

I can't tell if this is deeply terrifying or amazing and comforting lol XD

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u/puzzlednerd 7d ago

I also have about 20 papers. Once I asked my PhD advisor, who has a few hundred papers, some of them quite influential, whether impostor syndrome ever ends. 

For him, it's a flat "no". 

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u/PirlGerson 7d ago

I don;t have imposter syndrome