Where to find like-minded friends?

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I want to make friends with similar interests but I can't find anyone.

I am interested in advanced mathematics and computers/cryptography but I don't have anyone else to talk about it to, even on this forum there is not much love for mathematics.

I am looking for people 12-17 years old interested in advanced mathematics, but there is none at my school and my city is quite small so the probability of many finding one is very low.

Where can I find like-minded friends? Any that satisfy the criteria I listed, I would love to be your friend (although no pedophiles, I dislike them).

I'm glad you don't like pedophiles. They are not good people.

Maybe you could take the Mensa test, and join Mensa if you pass. There, you'll meet like-minded people.

We have a section on WrongPlanet devoted to mathematics and science. You should explore that. Make a thread about your favorite aspect of mathematics. I'm sure somebody will respond. And TALK to people. Don't make them think you're smarter than them.

Mensa sounds like a good idea. There isn't a mathematics/science section it's a computer/mathematics/science and it's generally used to discuss computers rather than mathematics. I don't make it look like I'm smarter then them, everyone should be treated as an equal in my opinion, do I make it look like I'm smarter than them.

No, I don't think you do.

But many smart people do that without meaning to do it.

And they get upset at what they perceive to be dumbness--when it's really people just being people.

Where are you located? I'm sure there's some kind of mathematics society where you are.

I live in Canada I've heard of the CMS (Canadian Mathematical Society) and they have summer camps for students like me but they're all for high school students and some of them are very expensive. Although, the application submission might have ended which is a problem. I live in a town with ~75,000 people though.

I suppose I could talk the advisor into letting me join, but most camps are in Montreal and such large places.

That's not a bad-sized place. A city of 75,000 is considered to be a fairly big place. Portland, Maine has about 75,000 people, and it's considered one of the major cities of northern New England.

What sort of school do you go to? Is there a special program for people who are especially good in mathematics and science?

Maybe you could also join a mathematics forum. What sort of advanced mathematics do you like?

Also: I did a little research. Membership for you would cost $43. You should go on the CMS website and research the mathematics competitions.

You could try taking some of the large online classes offered by groups like Coursera. They generally have associated forums, and you'll learn a lot too.

Try physicsforums.com. They have math and computer science sub-forums. I'm not sure that you will find people so young as you'd like.

Thanks I appreciate it.

There plenty of mathematics forums out there, one of the most famous is Stack Exchange http://www.math.stackexchange.com. I heard of this site and recently I've going on it. Most people if you check their profiles are in university with degrees, I go to university and take mathematics courses and I've passed them. There is a chat room for people of the Stack Exchange community which I suppose would be nice.

However it would take a lot of time to find a person that is 12-17 years old. But I'll check.

I've saw the CMS competitions including the CMO(Canadian Mathematical Olympiad) and you'll qualify for that if you place in a smaller province-wide competition. This mathematics is not mainstream but mainstream methods can be applied here first on that comes to mind is differential equations to solve recurrence relations i.e. a_n=2a_n+1 where a_n is a sequence.

Competition mathematics sounds nice but it gets really competitive when it gets to the CMO because people are all trying to represent the country for the IMO. However, I watched a documentary about students from the U.K trying to qualify for the IMO and the team leader claims these camps are a good place for people that always want to talk about mathematics, but have no one to talk to about it. Two of the people in the documentary had Aspergers by the way.

My school has about 190 people and no gifted program, I am put in a mainstream classroom but my parents are thinking of getting me an I.E.P once my psychologist is done his evaluation for anxiety and attention disorders.

I'll try these forums and dig around and I'll consider the CMS mathematics competitions. I think there is one in the summer of 2015.

Last time I checked there were no courses that stood out to me, meaning they didn't strike me as a exciting or important subject in mathematics some of these topics I've covered.

By the way, these are the courses I've taken:

Complex Analysis, Calculus I, Calculus II, Calculus III, Elementary Differential Equations.

This year I am planning to take ODEs, Real Analysis, Linear Algebra, Linear Algebra II(much harder I've heard) and that's about it. Then maybe Abstract Algebra. Then, maybe, I will work with my professor to make a thesis which is an available course.

My professor also said I can stop by and talk about mathematics whenever I like.

I suggest PMing EzraS. I don't think he's into mathematics, but he belongs to a couple of teen forums (he's 14), and he could let you know if there are any people, there, who are interested in maths----plus, he likes getting PMs.