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Concept: A gender reveal party but AFTER the kid is born.

Like when the kid is 6 or 12 or 18 or 24. When the kid has decided what their gender is or isn’t.

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Ukrainians get to be the hip kind of ethnic group because of the war but I still prefer the designation "first white woman to win the Fields Medal" for Maryna Viazovska

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Just a random ask, but why do u have your comments disabled? It's pretty rare for ppl on tumblr to comment in general anyway so I got curious ^^"

Admittedly, I was unaware of this fact. I have no idea. I may have had some bad experiences in the past.

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20240205

I wrote a little summary of what I read the past month. It's been quite a ride, my exams started one and a half months ago and today the new semester has come forth. Nonetheless, the past few months have been deeply transformative for me and I find myself in a position of neverending gratitude for the kind people in my life and hope that I may be of service to them in some small amount as they have been to me.

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so i have a supervisor for my thesis, even though i'm doing it next academic year. Guess I have an entire year to learn all of algebraic geometry.

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My favorite example of girl math is when David Hilbert and Albert Einstein couldn't solve how energy conservation worked in general relativity, so Hilbert asked Emmy Noether about it and she solved it for them.

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Being into math is like blorbo from my textbooks

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Bitches love to be like "science sucks where are the eldritch horrors where is the knowledge thats maddening to know" that's thermodynamics motherfucker. The first two world experts in thermodynamics (Ludwig Boltzmann and Paul Ehrenfest) both killed themselves because they had to do fucking thermodynamics

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13.12.2020

My physiology notes turned out so nice! It was definitely not efficient, but I had fun so .. eh.

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The Hager biography of Linus Pauling:

Pauling was not the only sought-after young professor. Another was J. Robert Oppenheimer, the young American physicist Pauling had met in Munich. In 1928, Millikan talked Oppenheimer into teaching physics for part of the year at Caltech, the remaining time to be spent at Berkeley, much like Pauling's new deal.

Oppenheimer made an immediate impression in Pasadena. Thin, almost frail in appearance, with strikingly large, wide-set eyes and a head of thick, dark hair, he was attractive as well as brilliant. Although raised in New York, he seemed exotically European, Bohemian, poetic, chain-smoking, prone to exotic literary and philosophical references. His only shortcoming seemed to be that he was a dismal lecturer, mumbling, scattering cigarette ashes, talking over the heads of his listeners, and packing the blackboard with cramped, barely readable equations. Despite that, he soon attracted a devoted band of acolytes, some of the West Coast's finest students, who were able to cut through the obscurity to the essentials of the new physics and who began following him on his annual trek between Pasadena and Berkeley. He was pursued, too, by scandalous rumors (which he seemed disinclined to squelch), hints of free love—perhaps homosexuality—and radical politics.

Pauling and Ava Helen found him witty, attractive, and a welcome antidote to the deadly dullness of most Caltech faculty members. They were all the same age, all young and brilliant, and all on the way up. The Paulings and the young physicist quickly became close friends. They shared dinners and jokes, talked about European physics, and gossiped about Caltech and Berkeley professors. Oppenheimer came to Pauling for advice on how to become a better lecturer, and Pauling sought him out to talk about quantum mechanics. The two of them began to consider mounting a joint attack on the chemical bond, with Oppenheimer working on the mathematics and Pauling providing the chemical insights.

Perhaps they became too close too fast. Something began to seem odd to Pauling. Oppenheimer not only adopted some of Pauling's lecturing style; he began wearing an old fedora around campus, much like one that Pauling wore. He started to give Pauling gifts, sometimes little ones, a favorite ring on one occasion, and on another, a magnificently extravagant one, Oppenheimer's large boyhood mineral collection, the crystal treasury that had first spurred Oppenheimer's interest in science, a thousand fine specimens, including some fine calcites in which Pauling took special interest. Then there were the poems Oppenheimer gave Pauling, verse that Pauling found both obscure and. troubling, mixing classical allusions with lines about mineralogy, Dante, and pederasty. Pauling had never had a friendship like this.

Neither had Ava Helen. She enjoyed Oppenheimer enormously, took pleasure in talking with him and flirting a little with him, as she did with almost everybody on social occasions. Perhaps she flirted a little more than usual, for Oppenheimer was unusually intriguing. Perhaps he felt her interest went beyond a casual friendship. It all went a little too far, in any case, when Oppenheimer approached her one day in 1929 when Pauling was at work and proffered a clumsy invitation to join him on a tryst in Mexico. Surprised and flattered, Ava Helen told him no, of course not, she was married and took it seriously. That night, she reported the whole thing to Pauling. "I think she was somewhat pleased with herself as a femme fatale," Pauling said. Perhaps she was a little too pleased. Pauling cut off his relationship with Oppenheimer, ending any chance of collaboration on the chemical bond and initiating a coolness between the two men that would last the rest of their lives.

Years later, Ava Helen told her husband, "You know, I don't think Oppenheimer was in love with me. I think he was in love with you." After mulling it over, Pauling concluded that she might be right.

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Watching this graduate QFT lecture when I know fuck all physics

some bullshit I don't understand about QM

some bullshit I don't understand about relativity

Lorentz transformation???

psi eta mu????

"These transformations form something called a 'mathematical group'. Now, you might not remember what a group is,"

Group I know him!!!! He is my friend!!!!!!!!!!!

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End of year mathblr asks

ask game for all the lovely mathblr people, if nothing like the question asked happened to you this year feel free to substitute with an expirience further in the past.

What is the coolest math concept you learned about this year?

What is the hardest problem you solved?

What math concept did you struggle the hardest with this year?

Will you still be doing math next year?

What kind of math will you be working on next year?

What kind of math did you work on this year?

Please share a favourite open problem of yours!

Have you met any famous mathmatician in person this year?

Have you met an author of a math book you read (or partially read)?

Who is the most inspiring mathmatician to you at the moment?Did this change thruout this year?

Can you share a favourite mathblr post?

(aimed at math students feel free to adjust this question) Did you collect any funny professor quotes this year?

Were there any funny moments in a math talk/lecture/tutorial you gave this year? (feel free not to answer if this is too emberassing)

What talks/lectures/tutorials did you give this year? (feel free not to answer or not to answer entirely if this would dox you)

(aimed at math students) What was your favourite lecture this year?

Have you earned a degree this year?

What was your favourite math video this year?

What math advice would you give your past self?

Has your mathbook collection grown this year? What are the new books?

Have you discovered any cool LaTeX tricks this year?

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sometimes maths is like putting some numbers in a blender and making a nice smoothie. some other times maths is like somehow putting a blender in some numbers and accidentally making the berlin wall

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i'm not really on here anymore, or any virtual platform for that matter. The past few months have been tumultous and I have changed, fundamentally, intensely, a deliberate effort to rebuild and reshape the clay of the earth.

I've reached a greater level of mathematical maturity through ego reduction, I've found an undocumented life to be better, for me. Above all, I've decided the self is a network, it's always moving. Who I am cannot be reduced, it cannot be simplified, it is what I do and what I do is all encompasing and ever changing.

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math mural!