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For me it's the other way around I like geometry and stuff but it's just visual math to me

People who aren't geometrymaxxing: how?

More seriously: I can appreciate interesting algebra or analysis or w/e, but for me it always sorta wraps back to geometry. A group theory result to me is only actually interesting once it's clear how to interpret it as a statement about symmetry; an analysis fact only means anything once it's a statement about geometric measures or currents or something; a categorification is only interesting insofar as it united different geometric intuitions into one formal framework.

I know this is just bias. And I see how people can be number theory-maxxing, that lives in the same "level" as geometry - I can explain primes as easily as I can explain "nice spaces", and then I can immediately pose difficult problems that seem interesting to a layperson. But I fundamentally don't understand how e.g. my wonderful alghead mutuals can approach maths for the sake of algebra. I can translate everything in a geometric problem into a simplified model of the real world; do you do that for homotopy theory or category theory? Do you just not feel the need to? Is there still an intrinsic feeling that the work is meaningful in a non-abstract sense? Or do you just not feel the need for that meaning?

This might come across as facetious (or me having had too much whisky) but it is a genuine question. Maybe I'm just a reincarnated Athenian but what is maths if not an abstract framework for doing geometry, number theory, and statistics.

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Hey is anybody having trouble with those Captcha test things lately? Mine are getting kinda weird and I’m even not too sure what to click on

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Making a discord bot and I'm for sure the worst to ever code python

Also I'm very lonely somehow

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An infinite number of mathematicians walk into a bar. The first orders 1 beer the second orders 2 beers the third orders 3 beers… the bartender stops them and says “you guys need to know your limits” and then steals 1/12 of a beer from them.

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Care for a drink?

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So I'm poly now and I have at least one girlfriend and at least one boyfriend

Ergo I cannot say "the boyfriends" OR "the girlfriends"

However I will call them "The Others" because it sounds aerid

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Frankenstein AU where the Creature, upon returning to seek terrible vengeance on Victor after realizing the tragic existence he's been forced into, takes a few days extra to actually, you know, observe Victor and see what he's like, to learn how best to enact his revenge. And he comes to the conclusion that, "Actually, I don't need to do anything, this idiot's going to ruin his own life without any outside interference, and I kinda wanna see how he does it."

Victor then proceeds to continue with his previously demonstrated levels of making good life choices, while now also constantly looking over his shoulder for his Creation and having the vapors at every little thing because oh noes, it's The Monster come back to Get Him-!!!

The Creature: (watching all this unfold through binoculars like it's a soap opera while sneaking in to help himself to Victor's larder and library when he feels like it, and also occasionally hiding small but vital objects, like Victor's keys or shaving blade, in weird spots in the house) Wow, it really does take an incredibly smart man to be quite this stupid, doesn't it?

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Astrology doesn't seem to work.

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My boyfriend is trying to explain cricket to me again. “He’s only got two balls to make 48 runs”, he says. The camera focuses on a man. Underneath him it says LEFT ARM FAST MEDIUM. A ball flies into the stands and presumably fractures someone’s skull. “There’s a free six”, my boyfriend says. 348 SIXES says the screen. A child in the audience waves a sign referencing Weet-Bix

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bowser jr and his dad and his dad’s husband eggman

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i don't respect americans and what they refer to as chicken sandwiches because when i was working at my old job as a barista slash sandwich bitch (australian) i had this american tourist come in and order a chicken sandwich so i started MAKING. her. a chicken sandwich. asked her what kind of bread she wanted and she looked at me funny. i said We have sourdough, rye, multigrain, wholemeal, plain white bread. she said I Want A Chicken Sandwich. i, roughly 19 years old at the time and not getting paid enough to deal with rude americans, realised we were at some sort of stalemate, although i didn't really know why. i change tacks for a second and say Okay. Well would you like chicken schnitzel or would you like plain roast chicken. and she says. Are You Listening To Me? I Said I Wanted A Chicken Sandwich. i am smiling at her from behind the counter and gripping a large knife. "i'm trying to make one for you, i promise. i just need to know what kind of bread and what kind of chicken and also what other fillings you want". or at least i say something LIKE that. secretly at this point i'm hoping that she outright yells at me so i can have an excuse to go stand in the walk in freezer for a few minutes. eventually we figure out that her idea of a chicken sandwich and my idea of a chicken sandwich are not the same, and i have to explain to her that we don't have burger buns here and we also don't have fried chicken. she says fine, but she says it in a tone that indicates that she cannot believe this is happening to her and that it is, singularly, my fault. i give her a bunch of options for food we DO sell and she ends up ordering something With Ketchup. i smile at her and i say "oh you mean Tomato Sauce". i was antagonizing her just a little bit at this point. a tiny bit. because she deserved it. she looks me in the face and says, Americanly (smugly) something about my attitude and how she won't be tipping. i gleefully tell her "we don't have tipping here." and then i secretly charged her two extra dollars for being an awful person. and that's my story about americans and chicken sandwiches. okay love you.

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Transcendentalism is a hard word to grasp, so it's important to look at the etymology of it so you can parse its meaning. Trans - to be beyond or across Cen - one hundred Dental - Teeth Ism - the belief of So taken all together, transcendentalism means "the belief that one should have beyond one hundred teeth"

Hope this helps!

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the one thing thing funnier than this caption is that the only reason they stopped doing it was that the ferret shit in the tube

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Odenosine triphosphate...

don't really care if the otp is romantic or platonic or erotic or whatnot. i care simply about the essentials (they are toxically codependent)

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i love when people express astonishment at like 7 eggs because they don’t know i’ve gotten to 45 before