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kirby reads hatcher!

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From the Sokal fake paper and perhaps the funniest thing I’ve ever read as someone who has a math major/WGS minor just thought I’d share. I know it’s all made up but why is it actually facts??

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this neighborhood is totally tubular

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i've been playing taiji lately and for the puzzles with the pips it's like suddenly all the ridiculous amount of nurikabe i've played has Become Useful

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conversely and unfortunately i have never heard of a difftop course not based on GP but yes I have beef with that book. it brings me pain

Math enthusiasts of tumblr. What math subjects have you studied and which ones were your favorite? Which ones were your least favorite? Which ones were the hardest?

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i'm constantly miscommunicating about the word "sequence" with analysts. these ppl do not carry homological algebra in their hearts

two words that really shouldn't be the same word:

inductive in "inductive reasoning" (philosophy term)

inductive in "inductive proof" (math term)

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de Rham cohomology is at least sort of interesting to me (alg top bias) but the Guillemin-Pollack nonsense of stuff like... winding number.... intersection number mod 2... oriented intersection number... and all the theorems that already get proved in an intro algtop course... is the true slog fest. and YES morse theory -> handles would be a bajillion times more useful than any of that.

Math enthusiasts of tumblr. What math subjects have you studied and which ones were your favorite? Which ones were your least favorite? Which ones were the hardest?

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associativeglassdesert retrospective did yall know differential topology constructions and proofs can all be done locally. in coordinates. and made super fucking easy and boring (i did not)

Math enthusiasts of tumblr. What math subjects have you studied and which ones were your favorite? Which ones were your least favorite? Which ones were the hardest?

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if you attempt to read this without working through a significant number of exercises, I will come to your house and pummel you with The Amulet of A Thousand Curses

cursed amulet but it's not an amulet it's a copy of Éléments de Géométrie Algébrique

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hardy after writing a whole ass essay about how pure mathematics is more beautiful and elegant than applied mathematics and then being remembered first and foremost for frequencies of alleles in a population

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going to eat an icosahedron

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does anyone else say ftfgag (fundamental theorem of finitely generated abelian groups) for classification theorem

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choosing a PhD advisor is not unlike marriage reality shows. making a multi year commitment on the basis of only a handful of awkward, perfunctory interactions. very small pool of options. something kinda wrong with all of them

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your a girl. real men are jacob lurie

isn't lurie a geometry topology type? that's literally woman math. i prefer more masculine subjects like the innovative fps paladins

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seeing people refer to greek letters as math symbols outside the context of math annoys me but at least it's not like. "fraternity symbols"

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in the midst of my 5am delirium the sentence "category theory insists upon itself" popped into my head