Homeschooled with MIT courses at 5, accepted to MIT at 15

Re:Homeschooled with MIT courses at 5, accepted to MIT at 15 by cottonseed on Wednesday November 18, 2015 @01:28PM (#10589695)

> I'm 33 now and I'd kill to be able to study mathematics full time and be a professor some day.

I started my PhD in math at 36. Admittedly, I made some life choices (savings, no kids or mortgage) that kept options like this open.

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Re:Homeschooled with MIT courses at 5, accepted to MIT at 15 by agentultra on Wednesday November 18, 2015 @01:36PM (#10589752)

Good for you! I hope you are/have enjoying/enjoyed it. I made some different choices (savings, but kids and mortgage). It'd be awesome to start a PhD but completely irresponsible of me as I'm the sole income provider for our family at present.

For now I content myself with following my fancies and working on digestible problems in my spare time (devoured ONAG a couple of years ago, graphs, sets, concrete mathematics... found Martin Gardner and enjoying devouring his recreational maths books). When I get the chance in my work I tend to enjoy the maths more than the programming... distributed systems, computer graphics, compilers. But most commercial programming is book keeping.

C'est la vie.

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Re:Homeschooled with MIT courses at 5, accepted to MIT at 15 by mjcohen on Wednesday November 18, 2015 @10:02PM (#10592482)

If you want to practice math, look at math.stackexchange.com.

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