#Math

[0re0bun]

Mathematics I haven’t learned yet is mysterious, almost religious in how it tantalizes me.

Mathematics I am learning is frustrating and taxing.

Mathematics I have already learned is trivial, and left as an exercise to the reader.

[nerdkingalpha]

Simple. 27+48 = 20+40 +7+8 = 60 + 7 + 8 = 67 + 3 + 5 = 75

[baba-the-yagaa]

Explaining a beautiful mathematical concept and the person asks for the real world application like bitch first off the real world application is it makes me personally ecstatic and second it doesn't need one because it's my special little princess concept

[thinkingabout-girls]

thinking about that time in math class when the teacher was explaining what a vector is and some girl went “omg just like the guy from despicable me!!”

[androgynouspear]

Women aren't usually my cup of tea BUT Goddam!! Look at the CURVES on julia!💘😩🤭

GOD she so mathematically intirciate I'm DROOLING 🤤 😋 😩 😫

Just look what she's got hidden under there ❤️

Hnnnn you can rotate her in SIX diffrent dimensions she Is just so Flexible 😉 😜 😘 😉 😜 😘

Ohh my god QUEEN you contain the mathematical beauty of the universe in you

Is it just me or is it getting hot in here!!

I need her too step on me so bad

[eulerseverything]

If I were writing a math textbook I’d have a section in the beginning called “A Note on Notation” where I introduce all the notation Im using. And everyone would want to fuck me sooooo bad

[iamnotaware]

ok wait, reblog if you’ve cried at least once because of math, doesn’t matter which grade i’m trying to prove something 

[marigold-22]

REBLOG THIS POST IF YOU ARE A MATH ENJOYER

No it is not optional, I desperately need to follow y’all so that there is more math on my dashboard.

[bubbloquacious]

Honestly name a more iconic duo than existence and uniqueness

[xyymath]

Things Math Professors Say

"The proof is trivial." (Oh, cool. Guess I’m just an idiot then.)

"Left as an exercise." (Translation: You’ll never solve this in a million years.)

"It’s obvious, really." (Sure, if you’re a demigod.)

"By inspection." (Stares harder at problem… still nothing.)

"For small values of epsilon." (How small? Subatomic? Microscopic? Vibes?)

"WLOG (Without Loss of Generality)." (Oh, we’re just assuming it doesn’t matter now? Alright.)

"Details omitted." (Because apparently, you don’t need to understand it.)

"By the usual argument." (Which you somehow don’t know because you weren’t born in 1702.)

"Assume the rest holds." (That’s some impressive optimism right there.)

"The usual abuse of notation." (Why does this feel like an emotional wound?)

"Almost surely correct." (But also possibly wrong? Cool, thanks for the clarity.)

"A non-rigorous approach." (I thought math was supposed to be precise?!)

"Assume it’s obvious." (Buddy, NOTHING about this is obvious.)

"The reader may verify." (No, the reader may CRY.)

"To the interested reader." (Guess I’m not interested enough, huh?)

"Well-behaved functions only." (We’re function-shaming now?)

"Obvious to the trained eye." (Guess I’ll never make it out of amateur league.)

"A trivial case analysis." (Trivial to WHO??)

"Integrate by parts, twice." (Bold of you to assume I got it the first time.)

"As you can clearly see." (Oh, I clearly see my FAILURE, alright.)

"It works in practice too." (Unlike me, who barely works at all.)

"Assume a spherical cow." (Are we doing math or abstract sculpture?)

"A standard result." (Not in my standards, pal.)

"We skip the tedious algebra." (No, no, please—I wanted to suffer MORE.)

"Assume non-zero solutions exist." (Okay, now we’re just assuming life works out.)

"The usual topology." (Bro, I don’t even know the unusual topology.)

"Finitely many cases left." (Just kidding, there’s 72.)

"By virtue of symmetry." (Virtue? I have none left.)

"Don’t worry about the constant." (The constant is probably my GPA dropping.)

"Assume continuity." (I’m assuming my brain is breaking.)

"Smooth functions only." (Guess I’ll leave, I’m clearly not smooth enough.)

"The simplest non-trivial case." (Simplest? NON-TRIVIAL? Pick a side!)

"Epsilon goes to zero." (Epsilon isn’t the only one losing it.)

"And the rest follows." (Where? Straight to my breakdown?)

[jkl-fff]

Fascinating!

was talking to my mom about how white people ignore the contributions of poc to academia and I found myself saying the words "I bet those idiots think Louis Pasteur was the first to discover germ theory"

which admittedly sounded pretentious as fuck but I'm just so angry that so few people know about the academic advancements during the golden age of Islam.

Islamic doctors were washing their hands and equipment when Europeans were still shoving dirty ass hands into bullet wounds. ancient Indians were describing tiny organisms worsening illness that could travel from person to person before Greece and Rome even started theorizing that some illnesses could be transmitted

also, not related to germ theory, but during the golden age of Islam, they developed an early version of surgery on the cornea. as in the fucking eye. and they were successful

and what have white people contributed exactly?

please go research the golden age of Islamic academia. so many of us wouldn't be alive today if not for their discoveries

people ask sometimes how I can be proud to be Muslim. this is just one of many reasons

some sources to get you started:

but keep in mind, it wasn't just science and medicine! we contributed to literature and philosophy and mathematics and political theory and more!

maybe show us some damn respect

[facts-i-just-made-up]

Most now-generalized counting terms once had exact meanings, here are a few:

Single - 1

Couple - 2

Few - 3 or 4

Several - 5 or 6

Lots - 7-11 but not 9

Nine - 9 (antiquated)

Dozen - 12

Baker's Dozen - 13

Candlestick Maker's Dozen - 14 or 15

Like At Least Twenty - 16 to 18

Thousands Upon Thousands - 19

Infinite - 20 or More

This is because in the early times of language, we counted on our fingers and toes, of which we have an infinite amount.

[ketrinadrawsalot]

Hosohedrons all have fluidlike bodies with sharp "bones" suspended in them. Attempts to collect the fluid always fail (it either dissipates or passes through the container), usually resulting in a very offended Hosohedron.

[teffiebell]

[max1461]

Kind of beside the point, but I also felt that compass and straight edge constructions were a little unnatural—like, why are we limiting ourselves to these two odd tools, why can't we just take measurements, etc.—until I starting learning about traditional woodworking. Probably masonry would have given the same insight. And then I was like, oh.

straight edge and compass constructions really are a ritual act. the goal is not to make a perfect construction, which could never exist in real life, or could be approximated (sometimes better!) by imperfect techniques. the goal is to perform a series of movies which correspond to a series of elsewhere-moves, platonic realm moves, which are actually perfect and actually result in a perfect construction. it's genuinely like some kinds of religious ritual in a meaningful conceptual sense