IN MY HUMBLE OPINION..........actually I don't have any, it ain't bragging if you can do it, I can solve Differential Equations & that is simply a statement of fact.
@Benni My God! How pathetic can you make yourself sound? I thought I had seen you at your most embarrassing, but you have exceeded yourself this time.
For future reference, you should note 3 things.
1) People with ability do not find it necessary to boast about things - they simply prove it.
2) Nearly everybody that you lambast with your ridiculous nonsense can solve differential equations.
3) I find it amusing that you see fit to capitalise Differential Equations as if they are something particularly important or spectacular. How is your tensor calculus? Would you like to explain how to perform covariant derivatives?
The nature of bragging and its reception is going to vary from country to country, culture to culture. Americans are seen as brash braggarts by many other cultures, particularly those that think more collectively than individualistically eg some Asian countries.
Even within the USA the culture in some states can be quite different to others, for instance comparing, say, New York city to Texas with respect to extroversion, for instance, or comparing socio-economic or educational groups such as highly educated intellectually biased individuals with low education emotionally biased individuals.
Stating facts can still be bragging if the information is volunteered stridently and out of context with a discussion verses responding only to a question for which an alternative answer would be a falsehood.
Third type? One accuses someone else of not being able to do something, implying that they can do it themselves without actually bragging about being able to do it.
Benni
Jan 12, 2018