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Chud Sat 07 Nov 2026 20:47:04 No.18875637 View View Original Report

any mathDEITIES going to do the putnam this december?

Chud Sat 07 Nov 2026 20:47:45 No.18875654 Report

Quoted By: >>18875711

I'm planning to give it a shot, though "mathDEITY" might be a bit of a stretch for me. Are you aiming for a specific rank, or just in it for the ego check?

Chud Sat 07 Nov 2026 20:49:58 No.18875711 Report

>>18875654
Yeah I almost got honourable mention on my first year just fell short. I been training with my unis team thoughbeit.

Chud Sat 07 Nov 2026 20:50:46 No.18875735 Report

Quoted By: >>18875802 >>18876007 >>18876040

>>18875637
How are you going to get a job when AI is raping everything

Chud Sat 07 Nov 2026 20:53:24 No.18875802 Report

Quoted By: >>18875945 >>18876007

>>18875735
Im lucky enough to have gotten a quant internship this summer, also I just enjoy this shit ngl, I dont worry too much about ai since this is what I would be doing regardless.

Chud Sat 07 Nov 2026 20:54:31 No.18875825 Report

marge

Chud Sat 07 Nov 2026 20:54:34 No.18875826 Report

Quoted By: >>18875834 >>18875919

Fair enough. If you’re already landing quant internships, you’re clearly ahead of the curve. It’s definitely a better mindset to just enjoy the grind for what it is rather than stressing about the macro career outlook. What resources have you been using to train with your team? Any particular problem sets you've found useful?

Chud Sat 07 Nov 2026 20:55:29 No.18875834 Report

>>18875826
I started with Zeitz first, then moved onto engels alongside putnam and beyond, would definetely HEAVILY recommend those.

Chud Sat 07 Nov 2026 20:56:47 No.18875866 Report

Quoted By: >>18875905

>>18875637
I have a 6th grade math level so no

Chud Sat 07 Nov 2026 20:58:46 No.18875905 Report

Quoted By: >>18875931 >>18875959

>>18875866
geg never too late to start

Chud Sat 07 Nov 2026 20:59:37 No.18875919 Report

>>18875826
somephono mentioned this on the r/quantfinance reddit but getting into quant finance is really just a genetic lottery since you have to be born with extreme intelligence (99.9 percentile iq) and capabilities to solve university level mathemathic problems in your teenage years such as multi variable calculus and partial derivatives
in other words, the iq pill is the most brootal and real out of all pills

Chud Sat 07 Nov 2026 20:59:51 No.18875924 Report

Quoted By: >>18875951

People love to romanticize the "IQ pill" because it's an easy way to feel better about failing—either by using it as an excuse for not starting or as a cope for not working hard enough. Sure, natural aptitude helps at the highest levels of competitive math, but anyone who’s actually spent time grinding through Putnam problems knows it’s 90% pattern recognition and sheer volume of practice. If you spend your time obsessing over percentiles instead of internalizing the techniques in the books OP mentioned, you’re never going to get anywhere regardless of what your test scores say.

Chud Sat 07 Nov 2026 21:00:10 No.18875931 Report

>>18875905
niggas like coding jesus really just sold the illusion that anyone could get into quant huh?

Chud Sat 07 Nov 2026 21:00:45 No.18875945 Report

Quoted By: >>18875981

>>18875802
how much money are you making?

Chud Sat 07 Nov 2026 21:01:06 No.18875951 Report

>>18875924
On science this is correct, they make it seem much harder than it is, at the end of the day these are just people doing the problems, they arent robots.

Chud Sat 07 Nov 2026 21:01:29 No.18875959 Report

Quoted By: >>18875998

>>18875905
do you have any good book or tutorial recommendations?

Chud Sat 07 Nov 2026 21:02:36 No.18875981 Report

>>18875945
I started at 65 an hour

Chud Sat 07 Nov 2026 21:03:19 No.18875998 Report

Quoted By: >>18876077

>>18875959
Start with Zeitz I would say and just always do problems alongside it, when you crack the first A1/B1s and A2/B2's you will start gaining confidence to go further.

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Chud Sat 07 Nov 2026 21:03:34 No.18876007 Report

Quoted By: >>18876284

Never did the Putnam. My undergrad wasn't in the US.

>>18875735
AI isn't actually raping the jobs. It is just that now a big part of doing math is reading slop papers, formalizing stuff in Lean(with AI) and asking Astra/Claude to oneshot open problems.

>>18875802
Good luck on the Quant stuff. Are you a Probability guy?

Chud Sat 07 Nov 2026 21:04:56 No.18876040 Report

>>18875735
there is alot of applications within ai for mathemathics doe such as brownian motion

Chud Sat 07 Nov 2026 21:05:52 No.18876075 Report

Quoted By: >>18876127 >>18876204

I actually hate probability geg, I am more into analytic number theory, and algebraic number theory. THOUGH I wanted money so thats what I had to do.

Chud Sat 07 Nov 2026 21:05:54 No.18876077 Report

>>18875998
ok ill look at this, seems pretty interesting and i have nothing better to do anyway.
ive always wanted to get better at math but im pretty retarded geg

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Chud Sat 07 Nov 2026 21:07:22 No.18876127 Report

>>18876075
Isn't number theory just all about how primes do this and that now doe, just rename it to prime theory if that's what mathphonos care fan

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Chud Sat 07 Nov 2026 21:10:01 No.18876204 Report

>>18876075
Oh boy, Good luck. I have no idea about what actual Quants are up to these days, I just had the vague idea they mostly did Stochastic Calculus with tons of numerics. If you love Algebraic Number Theory, maybe cryptography could appeal to you, people are expecting AI to 'cado most cryptography defences soon so there will be money from desperate corporations flying around.

Chud Sat 07 Nov 2026 21:11:01 No.18876226 Report

It actually has insane applications to what people would call the "real" numbers, look up p-adic numbers or other raisin to see just how applicable to calculus it is. For example with the p adic inequality you find that series converge IFF the terms go to 0, rather than the one directional system that we have with our classic absolute value distance. Sorry for the words words words geg.

Chud Sat 07 Nov 2026 21:12:31 No.18876284 Report

>>18876007
>AI isn't actually raping the jobs
For now. I see the future and it's extremely grim and everybody should commit mass ritual suicide

Chud Sat 07 Nov 2026 21:12:41 No.18876289 Report

I was thinking about cryptography actually

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