447: Too Old For This Shit - Revision history

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188.114.102.94: This not so much about child prodigies creating (jealously written in quot. marks by author) “great works”, more about mathematics. No need to remove the current article. Undo revision 342492 by 162.158.167.28

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This not so much about child prodigies creating (jealously written in quot. marks by author) “great works”, more about mathematics. No need to remove the current article. Undo revision 342492 by 162.158.167.28

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172.71.154.104: I know a guy who wrote a math paper at age 13.

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I know a guy who wrote a math paper at age 13.

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 ==Explanation==
-This comic pokes fun at the notion of child prodigies and famous authors creating "great works" at incredibly young ages, even satirizing the notion by placing impossible expectations on everyone else.
+This comic makes fun of the fact that most mathematical geniuses have done their exceptional work (for which they eventually become famous) in their early years by exaggerating it, particularly given that "too old for this shit" is a phrase more appropriately used by people later in age. At the age of thirteen, most precocious mathematicians would not be pushing the frontier of mathematical knowledge, let alone to the point where they would be "too old for it." As such, this is more of a joke about a young boy attempting to dismiss the world around him. It also plays on the fact that in xkcd comics, it is often difficult to tell age because of a lack of detail, which is necessary to set up the final punchline.
-Within the field of mathematics, it is true that many influential figures produced their works fairly early in their careers. One example is {{w|Carl Friedrich Gauss}}, who wrote his exceptional masterpiece ''{{w|Disquisitiones Arithmeticae}}'' at the early age of 21. A fictionalized biography of Gauss, ''{{w|Measuring the World}}'', also pokes fun at the supposed expectation to already be a genius at a young age when Gauss supposedly admits to having trouble understanding his own work when he got older.
+A striking example is {{w|Carl Friedrich Gauss}}, the famous mathematician, who wrote his exceptional masterpiece ''{{w|Disquisitiones Arithmeticae}}'' at the early age of 21. This idea was for instance used in the fictional biography of Gauss, ''{{w|Measuring the World}}'', where he admits to having trouble understanding his own work when he got older because of his age.
-The "age theory" applies to physics as well. {{w|Albert Einstein}} was also very young (26) when he published his {{w|Annus Mirabilis papers|four groundbreaking papers}} in the same year (his {{w|Annus Mirabilis}} in 1905) including the one that eventually gave him the {{w|Nobel Prize}}. Later in life, for instance, he never accepted the theory of {{w|quantum physics}} - which is now a very well-established theory.
+The "age theory'" applies to physics as well. {{w|Albert Einstein}} was also very young (26) when he published his {{w|Annus Mirabilis papers|four groundbreaking papers}} in the same year (his {{w|Annus Mirabilis}} in 1905) including the one that eventually gave him the {{w|Nobel Prize}}. Later in life, for instance, he never accepted the theory of {{w|quantum physics}} - which is now a very well-established theory.
 The title of the comic, "Too Old For This Shit," is also a reference to the ''{{w|Lethal Weapon}}'' series, in which one of the main characters (Roger Murtaugh, played by Danny Glover) is repeatedly quoted as saying things along the line of "I'm too old for this shit."

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 ==Explanation==
-This comic makes fun of the fact that most mathematical geniuses have done their exceptional work (for which they eventually become famous) in their early years by exaggerating it, particularly given that "too old for this shit" is a phrase more appropriately used by people later in age. At the age of thirteen, most precocious mathematicians would not be pushing the frontier of mathematical knowledge, let alone to the point where they would be "too old for it." As such, this is more of a joke about a young boy attempting to dismiss the world around him. It also plays on the fact that in xkcd comics, it is often difficult to tell age because of a lack of detail, which is necessary to set up the final punchline.
+This comic pokes fun at the notion of child prodigies and famous authors creating "great works" at incredibly young ages, even satirizing the notion by placing impossible expectations on everyone else.
-A striking example is {{w|Carl Friedrich Gauss}}, the famous mathematician, who wrote his exceptional masterpiece ''{{w|Disquisitiones Arithmeticae}}'' at the early age of 21. This idea was for instance used in the fictional biography of Gauss, ''{{w|Measuring the World}}'', where he admits to having trouble understanding his own work when he got older because of his age.
+Within the field of mathematics, it is true that many influential figures produced their works fairly early in their careers. One example is {{w|Carl Friedrich Gauss}}, who wrote his exceptional masterpiece ''{{w|Disquisitiones Arithmeticae}}'' at the early age of 21. A fictionalized biography of Gauss, ''{{w|Measuring the World}}'', also pokes fun at the supposed expectation to already be a genius at a young age when Gauss supposedly admits to having trouble understanding his own work when he got older.
-The "age theory'" applies to physics as well. {{w|Albert Einstein}} was also very young (26) when he published his {{w|Annus Mirabilis papers|four groundbreaking papers}} in the same year (his {{w|Annus Mirabilis}} in 1905) including the one that eventually gave him the {{w|Nobel Prize}}. Later in life, for instance, he never accepted the theory of {{w|quantum physics}} - which is now a very well-established theory.
+The "age theory" applies to physics as well. {{w|Albert Einstein}} was also very young (26) when he published his {{w|Annus Mirabilis papers|four groundbreaking papers}} in the same year (his {{w|Annus Mirabilis}} in 1905) including the one that eventually gave him the {{w|Nobel Prize}}. Later in life, for instance, he never accepted the theory of {{w|quantum physics}} - which is now a very well-established theory.
 The title of the comic, "Too Old For This Shit," is also a reference to the ''{{w|Lethal Weapon}}'' series, in which one of the main characters (Roger Murtaugh, played by Danny Glover) is repeatedly quoted as saying things along the line of "I'm too old for this shit."

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 ==Explanation==
-This comic makes fun of the fact that most mathematical geniuses have done their exceptional work (for which they eventually become famous) in their early years by exaggerating it, particularly given that "too old for this shit" is a phrase more appropriately used by people later in age. At the age of thirteen, even precocious mathematicians would not be pushing the frontier of mathematical knowledge, let alone to the point where they would be "too old for it." As such, this is more of a joke about a young boy attempting to dismiss the world around him. It also plays on the fact that in xkcd comics, it is often difficult to tell age because of a lack of detail, which is necessary to set up the final punchline.
+This comic makes fun of the fact that most mathematical geniuses have done their exceptional work (for which they eventually become famous) in their early years by exaggerating it, particularly given that "too old for this shit" is a phrase more appropriately used by people later in age. At the age of thirteen, most precocious mathematicians would not be pushing the frontier of mathematical knowledge, let alone to the point where they would be "too old for it." As such, this is more of a joke about a young boy attempting to dismiss the world around him. It also plays on the fact that in xkcd comics, it is often difficult to tell age because of a lack of detail, which is necessary to set up the final punchline.
 A striking example is {{w|Carl Friedrich Gauss}}, the famous mathematician, who wrote his exceptional masterpiece ''{{w|Disquisitiones Arithmeticae}}'' at the early age of 21. This idea was for instance used in the fictional biography of Gauss, ''{{w|Measuring the World}}'', where he admits to having trouble understanding his own work when he got older because of his age.

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 ==Explanation==
-This comic makes fun of the fact that most mathematical geniuses have done their exceptional work (for which they eventually become famous) in their early years by exaggerating it, particularly given that "too old for this shit" is a phrase more appropriately used by people later in age. At the age of thirteen, even precocious mathematicians would not be pushing the frontier of mathematical knowledge, let alone to the point where they would be "too old for it." As such, this is more a joke about a young boy attempting to dismiss the world around him. It also plays on the fact that in xkcd comics, it is often difficult to tell age because of lack of detail, which is necessary to set up the final punchline.
+This comic makes fun of the fact that most mathematical geniuses have done their exceptional work (for which they eventually become famous) in their early years by exaggerating it, particularly given that "too old for this shit" is a phrase more appropriately used by people later in age. At the age of thirteen, even precocious mathematicians would not be pushing the frontier of mathematical knowledge, let alone to the point where they would be "too old for it." As such, this is more of a joke about a young boy attempting to dismiss the world around him. It also plays on the fact that in xkcd comics, it is often difficult to tell age because of a lack of detail, which is necessary to set up the final punchline.
 A striking example is {{w|Carl Friedrich Gauss}}, the famous mathematician, who wrote his exceptional masterpiece ''{{w|Disquisitiones Arithmeticae}}'' at the early age of 21. This idea was for instance used in the fictional biography of Gauss, ''{{w|Measuring the World}}'', where he admits to having trouble understanding his own work when he got older because of his age.
-The "age theory'" applies to physics as well. {{w|Albert Einstein}} was also very young (26) when he published his {{w|Annus Mirabilis papers|four groundbreaking papers}} in the same year (his {{w|Annus Mirabilis}} in 1905) including the one that eventually gave him the {{w|Nobel Prize}}. Later in life, for instance, he never accepted the theory of {{w|quantum physics}} - which is now a very well established theory.
+The "age theory'" applies to physics as well. {{w|Albert Einstein}} was also very young (26) when he published his {{w|Annus Mirabilis papers|four groundbreaking papers}} in the same year (his {{w|Annus Mirabilis}} in 1905) including the one that eventually gave him the {{w|Nobel Prize}}. Later in life, for instance, he never accepted the theory of {{w|quantum physics}} - which is now a very well-established theory.
 The title of the comic, "Too Old For This Shit," is also a reference to the ''{{w|Lethal Weapon}}'' series, in which one of the main characters (Roger Murtaugh, played by Danny Glover) is repeatedly quoted as saying things along the line of "I'm too old for this shit."

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 ==Transcript==
-:[Two Cueballs are standing in front of a whiteboard. They are facing away from each other, not yet fully conversing with each other.]
+:[Two Cueballs are standing in front of a whiteboard covered with equations. They are facing away from each other, not yet fully conversing with each other.]
 :Cueball 1: I wish I could do math like when I was young.
 :Cueball 2: Huh?