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how to write math real good (algebraic-dumbass' guide)

the more commutative diagrams there are, the more correcter the math

be sure to include a rant about capitalism in the middle of the document

drop quotes that will make people laugh on the internet (e.g. "given a homomorphism, one must salivate, like Pavlov's dog, to know its kernel and image" from Rotman I think?)

use more creative variable names with the fontAwesome package

Instead of leaving proofs as an exercise, gaslight the reader into thinking it's obvious (it's not)

include an epigraph that is a lemon demon lyric

indicate crucial steps of proofs by using the word "Behold"

refer to your technical lemmas by clear and concise names that end in -inator

if writing lecture notes, include stage directions

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I love that so very much of mathematics can be described as upgrading linear algebra in various ways.

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whenever a linear algebra professor catches you having too much fun with math they are legally obligated to make you do gram-schmidt as a way of humbling yourself

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every power of 2 is equal to an odd number summed with the difference between two squares. might sound kinda cool, isnt

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So I've seen the whole 'Math's Saddest Love Stories' (asymptotes that drift ever closer but never meet etc.), but I think we're missing the potential of Math's Funny Love Stories. The couple whose destiny is an infinite cycle of breaking up and getting back together again:

Oscillating rapidly in and out of each other's life for a while before drifting apart in opposite directions:

Drifting ever closer, until you finally meet and go fuck that:

One who drifts slowly closer to the other, until they acutally meet and decide to make a very sharp turn in the other direction:

Whatever hellscape of contrived coincidences these series of infinite near misses are:

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Happy tau/2-day.

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okay yeah sure

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I’ve been doing math alone in my dark room with coffee whilst sick… am I a real mathematician yet? /hj

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"wow ur so good at math" ah ha but you see. you dont ever get good at math. you stay bad, but now youre bad at harder math

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Are all people who do functional analysis allergic to using im(T) and ker(T) to denote the image and the kernel of an operator T or is it just my lecturer?

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Turn coffee into theorems.

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Make a personal website with plain HTML styling.

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Please let's never forget the classics.

And this is kinda cheating, but technically, there is a "destiny algorithm"...

I also thought about looking for a paper written by some "Merlin", but it was so obvious it existed that I pass.

I need to start a collection of "math things that really, really sound like wizard and/or cleric things."

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Mathblr really is just radical absurdism but for math, huh?

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I don't care what anyone wants to ask me, whether in real life or online. I'll try to start my answer this way every time.

Source: Fuchs, Christopher A. (2012). "Interview with a Quantum Bayesian". arXiv:1207.2141 [quant-ph].

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I’m the opposite of a linguistic purist. I think we should all start saying more things wrong so language evolves faster. I’m bored

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I heard there are many posts in mathblr complaining about maths. Haven't seen more than one or two, but I heard they are mostly hs students complaining about their algebra homework.

And for some reason, I find it quite funny to imagine they are all mathematics students complaining about the homework they like.

Like, those who don't specify the topic they're studying could perfectly be like: "man, why do they want me to prove that every boolean algebra of rank n is supersolvable? Why would I need that in life?".