I'm not saying it's not accurate, it's just like...
... well, imagine if someone had written a book on a Trinity Mathmo, in which the main character was young when they went up to university, fairly antisocial, spent most of their lives in their room doing maths and playing computer games, thought a wild night out was the archimadeans talks and *insert lots more Trinity Maths stereotypes here*. It wouldn't be inaccurate - there are lots of Trinity (and Queens ;-) ) mathmos who fulfil all the stereotypes, and most of us suffer from at least some of them. It might even be a good thing if you knew nothing about mathmos to have a book that had a character like this in it. But if you are a mathmo you might be disappointed that this was the type of mathmo they chose to write about - not because it's *wrong*, exactly, just because there's more to it than that.
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Date: 2004-08-28 05:29 am (UTC)... well, imagine if someone had written a book on a Trinity Mathmo, in which the main character was young when they went up to university, fairly antisocial, spent most of their lives in their room doing maths and playing computer games, thought a wild night out was the archimadeans talks and *insert lots more Trinity Maths stereotypes here*. It wouldn't be inaccurate - there are lots of Trinity (and Queens ;-) ) mathmos who fulfil all the stereotypes, and most of us suffer from at least some of them. It might even be a good thing if you knew nothing about mathmos to have a book that had a character like this in it. But if you are a mathmo you might be disappointed that this was the type of mathmo they chose to write about - not because it's *wrong*, exactly, just because there's more to it than that.