Mathematics MBTI Personality Type
Personality
What personality type is Mathematics? Mathematics is an INTP personality type in MBTI, 5w6 - so/sp - 513 in Enneagram, RCOEI in Big 5, LII in Socionics.
as an INTJ math major, i can adamantly say that this is not an INTJ subject. it's not even a Te subject. if you try to adopt a Te way of thinking when studying math you are going to sink very quickly. • to understand advanced math, you need to want to know everything about it, inside and out. it's not enough to focus on what you 'need to know for (exam/work/etc)' as the concept will eventually get expanded on. this is completely contradictory of Te, and instead favours the 'inner workings' mindset of a Ti user. • advanced math has very little application in the tangible world, which makes it virtually devoid of Se. however, lots of areas of math are very interconnected and it's not easy to catagorise them into areas that don't interact. this embodies the 'branch' analogy commonly used to describe Ne. the reason it's not Ni is because these links between disciplines are only obvious when actually doing the calculation, which requires interacting with something external (Pi < Pe). there are also several ways to solve problems, and it's generally frowned upon to stick with one rote method for each type of problem that Pi doms prefer to use.
Biography
Mathematics (from Greek: μάθημα, máthēma, 'knowledge, study, learning') includes the study of such topics as quantity (number theory), structure (algebra), space (geometry), and change (analysis). It has no generally accepted definition. Mathematicians seek and use patterns to formulate new conjectures; they resolve the truth or falsity of such by mathematical proof. When mathematical structures are good models of real phenomena, mathematical reasoning can be used to provide insight or predictions about nature. Through the use of abstraction and logic, mathematics developed from counting, calculation, measurement, and the systematic study of the shapes and motions of physical objects. Practical mathematics has been a human activity from as far back as written records exist. The research required to solve mathematical problems can take years or even centuries of sustained inquiry.
