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The speech is very interesting, thanks for sharing it!

yknow maybe its a bit early to think about this stuff *this* much (mostly done with undergrad compsci but barely halfway done with the undergrad math degree I decided to also formally start this semester) but I keep thinking maybe I *should* go into more applied math stuff.

mostly in a "don't make your hobbies your job" kind of way but also in a "one of the options at the uni I probably want to go to for my masters is scientific computing with a focus on environmental physics and contributing meaningfully to environmentalism by making computers do math sounds pretty sweet" way

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I am reading at 5 times the recommended speed.

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Parents (when their child is young): "I know everything. You must obey my every command. The tiniest amount of doubt toward me is considered so disrespectful that I'm justified in hitting you for it.

Parents (when their child is grown): "Please forgive me. I'm only human. There's a lot I didn't know. I tried my best."

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Getting a lot of: “No but like you don’t get it math is stupid and useless and reading books is actually morally good… and teaches us about the world around us and explains how it works which stupid math doesn’t do why should I learn calculus I would rather shame people into reading Jane Eyre than open a math book or website”

And like … out of the millions of things you can do with basic and foundational math … that shows you how the world works … Calculus, as one example, can literally explain to you why leaves grow at the angle they grow … there is little more beautiful than being able to calculate exactly how nature works and understand why.

There is beauty in every subject … and few other subjects encapsulate ways to understand your surroundings like math.

If you are comfortable shaming people for not reading fiction books because you personally are good at reading them, but uncomfortable being shamed for not doing mathematics consider you are in the exact same boat as people who are afraid to read fiction books because they don’t see why it is important to do so and are unwilling to begin.

You are the people you hate.

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ok so this is probably just me being a self-obsessed heartless dumbass but is it me or is it that when you're bad at doing something people just tell you to try harder but if you're REALLY BAD at doing something they say "oh it's [mental illness]" and try to actually give you help. what if i do have a mild version of a thing why shouldnt i get help. at least some. just a crumbe of adderall and empathy plz

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What kind of math are you studying?

math tuition is hell im gonna shoot myself with a gun

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You took this photo? I've loved it for a long time!

when people are like “he’s not even attractive you could find a guy that looks like him at any gas station” i’m like….. well you see there’s beauty everywhere actually

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Things Math Professors Say

"The proof is trivial." (Oh, cool. Guess I’m just an idiot then.)

"Left as an exercise." (Translation: You’ll never solve this in a million years.)

"It’s obvious, really." (Sure, if you’re a demigod.)

"By inspection." (Stares harder at problem… still nothing.)

"For small values of epsilon." (How small? Subatomic? Microscopic? Vibes?)

"WLOG (Without Loss of Generality)." (Oh, we’re just assuming it doesn’t matter now? Alright.)

"Details omitted." (Because apparently, you don’t need to understand it.)

"By the usual argument." (Which you somehow don’t know because you weren’t born in 1702.)

"Assume the rest holds." (That’s some impressive optimism right there.)

"The usual abuse of notation." (Why does this feel like an emotional wound?)

"Almost surely correct." (But also possibly wrong? Cool, thanks for the clarity.)

"A non-rigorous approach." (I thought math was supposed to be precise?!)

"Assume it’s obvious." (Buddy, NOTHING about this is obvious.)

"The reader may verify." (No, the reader may CRY.)

"To the interested reader." (Guess I’m not interested enough, huh?)

"Well-behaved functions only." (We’re function-shaming now?)

"Obvious to the trained eye." (Guess I’ll never make it out of amateur league.)

"A trivial case analysis." (Trivial to WHO??)

"Integrate by parts, twice." (Bold of you to assume I got it the first time.)

"As you can clearly see." (Oh, I clearly see my FAILURE, alright.)

"It works in practice too." (Unlike me, who barely works at all.)

"Assume a spherical cow." (Are we doing math or abstract sculpture?)

"A standard result." (Not in my standards, pal.)

"We skip the tedious algebra." (No, no, please—I wanted to suffer MORE.)

"Assume non-zero solutions exist." (Okay, now we’re just assuming life works out.)

"The usual topology." (Bro, I don’t even know the unusual topology.)

"Finitely many cases left." (Just kidding, there’s 72.)

"By virtue of symmetry." (Virtue? I have none left.)

"Don’t worry about the constant." (The constant is probably my GPA dropping.)

"Assume continuity." (I’m assuming my brain is breaking.)

"Smooth functions only." (Guess I’ll leave, I’m clearly not smooth enough.)

"The simplest non-trivial case." (Simplest? NON-TRIVIAL? Pick a side!)

"Epsilon goes to zero." (Epsilon isn’t the only one losing it.)

"And the rest follows." (Where? Straight to my breakdown?)

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mathematical revelation so great i almost became religious

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mathematical revelation so great i almost became religious

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math people scare me. math people will be like "math works in mysterious ways TO YOU. i get it though." and they do and it's fucking terrifying.

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Me and my best friend

mathematics/art

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Also Griebach, known for the Griebach Normal Form!

Discover that a name you’ve been hearing for years belongs to a woman! (shout out Phyllis Nicolson of Crank-Nicolson method fame)

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I've been pulled into watching the Gotham Chess recaps of the International Chess Championship and here are my thoughts:

This would make a great pro wrestling story

(hearing him actually recap a chess strategy) oh my god i never want to be good at chess

BASELESS ACCUSATION CHEATING GUY?????

ANAL BEADS CHEATING GUY???????????

Ding nooooooo you can do it I believe in you (I'm kinda cheering for both of them but I'm tickled by the concept of "incumbent champ who is somehow the neurotic underdog")

I REALLY never want to be good at chess

probably the sickos on Ao3 have written rpf about this (they have)

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This exactly. It feels as if the brains of my friends flow smoothly towards the shore of certainty through the choppy seas of truth- meanwhile I'm taking a raft.

there's a very specific feeling that makes it difficult to study math in an academic environment when all students around you seem like they're exponentially more intuitive than you in this subject

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Euclidean Geometry in Mathematical Olympiads

Geometric proofs… might anyone have a good resource for learning them more formally? I need them for a project I’ve recently begun, and hope to find a guide stronger than those reserved for high school geometry courses haha.

Specifically, i’m looking to understand lines, line intersections, things of that type, in a deeper way.

Thank you! :)

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