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How are Real Analysis lovers doing? Still brainwashed?

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I am suffering the existential crisis of a former collegiate athlete that quit their sport right before the pandemic, has been living in a small apartment with no access to a gym, and is the most out of shape that they’ve been in probably a decade.

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When you bullshit your way through a math proof on your homework and it turns out you did it correctly <3

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I hate that, as a young student, my body can run on small amounts of sleep. Like... can I just pass out after an all-nighter? Why do I have the energy for two? I want to sleep, damnit.

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Doing these proofs... I write down what makes sense to me and then, some small part of me in the back of my brain is screaming, saying “No! You made a jump in logic in this step!” And then... I cry

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Back to complain about math because I cannot do half of these primitive root modulo proofs. I though I understood primitive root modulos but I guess not!

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I’ll be working on my senior thesis for my other major and wish I was doing math.

Then I’ll be doing math and wish I was working on my senior thesis.

I can’t win.

(So what do I do? Neither. I do neither as a compromise)

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The risky behaviors I engage in as a college student are 1) falling asleep without an alarm on and 2) cooking with grease and no apron.

Pray for my morning class attendance and my clothes.

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There is nothing quite like replying or sending an email. The sense of accomplishment I get from it... it’s a whole rush.

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I honestly can say the reason I feel in love with math is the logic games part of it. Math (especially in regard to proofs) also requires SO MUCH creativity.

I am very drunk but I think it’s important that people know that math doesn’t necessarily suck, your teacher did.

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I am very drunk but I think it’s important that people know that math doesn’t necessarily suck, your teacher did.

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Things I like getting for Christmas now that solidify my transformation into a real adult:

1. Socks: one of my favorite presents from my family this year was a big bag of running socks

2. Any sort of cooking utensil: Spatula, rolling pin, apron, dish towel... etc.

3. Blankets: I just wanna be comfy, man

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Real quick personal victory but! This goes out as a big fuck you to my ex who told me I wasn’t smart enough to be a math major about a year ago.

I not only passed, but did well in the two upper level math courses I was taking this semester. I’m one class away from completing the major.

Let’s go!!

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I told my parents I have a new party trick. I can make 2 + 2= 1 (by doing it in Z/3Z).

So anyways they’re regretting raising their child to be a nerd now.

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... I didn’t need a math tumblr post to call me out for being a masochist today but yes, I do in fact love group theory

fields of mathematics

number theory: The Queen of Mathematics, in that it takes a lot from other fields and provides little in return, and people are weirdly sentimental about it.

combinatorics: Somehow simultaneously the kind of people who get really excited about Martin Gardner puzzles and very serious no-nonsense types who don’t care about understanding why something is true as long as they can prove that it’s true.

algebraic geometry: Here’s an interesting metaphor, and here’s several thousand pages of work fleshing it out.

differential geometry: There’s a lot of really cool stuff built on top of a lot of boring technical details, but they frequently fill entire textbooks or courses full of just the boring stuff, and they seem to think students will find this interesting in itself rather than as a necessary prerequisite to something better. So there’s definitely something wrong with them.

category theory: They don’t really seem to understand that the point of generalizing a result is so that you can apply it to other situations.

differential equations: physicists

real analysis: What if we took the most boring parts of a proof and just spent all our time studying those?

point-set topology: See real analysis, but less relevant to the real world.

complex analysis: Sorcery. I thought it seemed like sorcery because I didn’t know much about it, but then I learned more, and now the stuff I learned just seems like sorcery that I know how to do.

algebraic topology: Some of them are part of a conspiracy with category theorists to take over mathematics. I’m pretty sure that most algebraic topologists aren’t involved in that, but I don’t really know what else they’re up to.

functional analysis: Like real analysis but with category theorists’ generalization fetish.

group theory: Probably masochists? It’s hard to imagine how else someone could be motivated to read a thousand-page paper, let alone write one.

operator algebras: Seems cool but I can’t understand a word of it, so I can’t be sure they’re not just bullshitting the whole thing.

commutative/homological algebra: Diagram chases are of the devil, and these people are his worshipers.

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sin^2 + cos^2 = 1 and... I don’t know. Who needs a memory when you’ve got a computer

reblog if you’re a STEM major and are constantly googling trig identities