#study of big maths

[globalintellectualbeverage]

What makes a number big?

What makes a number big is how dense it is compared to the information required to describe it.

What is the biggest math? Lambda calculus seems pretty big. You might need to include the definitions of the operators there to get full coverage. So if you want to use a symbol, you have to define it. Lambda calculus still looks to win here.

[deathricedrawn]

i'm ready to try

[why-the-heck-not]

maybe maybe a mistake taking astronomy; idk why I thought I'd suddenly be a physics mastermind just bc I have more motivation for it now. It's the first week and I have no actual clue what I'm doing (or more accurately: should be doing. Mostly so far it's been lots of staring and muttering of "what the fuck" in regular intervals)

[kimseo-wan]

Ha Sang-min is a huge red flag but I love the color red

The Sang-min bf headcanons post by @namsgyu gave me motivation to draw him ✧⁠◝⁠(⁠⁰⁠▿⁠⁰⁠)⁠◜⁠✧

I actually hate how this one turned out.. I tried to blend in the face for a smoother look but I hate how the clothes look 😭

[gammaraydeath]

this is it... hell day begins

[fatesundress]

do we as a society think tom riddle could do math. yes or no

[thebluebygracieabrams]

can someone tell me how to keep going if your hardwork does pay off but you don't feel anything when you achieve your goal just relief and numb again

[bxtonpxss]

HELLO??!???! MY DAUGHTER????? HELLO????

[a9saga]

i don't know how but they found me - downside // i know this song sounds super 80s like all idkhow songs do but it also feels extremely like the academy is...

[mr-ladystardust]

reading my psychology maths textbook and realising, perhaps for the first time, that I know nothing

[iwakuraz]

feeling like,,,, soon I'm probably gonna become obsessed with evangelion again. the weather forecast says I'm gonna have the evangelion brain disease not too long from now

[why-the-heck-not]

ok very excited. I think I can fit both astronomy and neuroscience&physiology into my master's as the minor subject studies. I might get tf out of astronomy like a week into it, bc I suck at physics & now it's been like 5 years since I've done anything physics-related and I don't remember the math-side of it at all. But both of those I've at some point considered to major in, so I think I need to see the "what could have been"s etc.

Also there are some courses on bioinformatics that I wanna take that are a bit closer to the computer science stuff (aka my actual degree) that I'm very interested abt. Also "programming quantum computers"?? that sounds cool as fuck and I already know I'm going to regret it so much (shit sounds complicated & super time consuming) but alas, I'm gonna have to give it a try; sounds too cool not to.

Rn I have 4 too many courses for the degree, but I'm sure I'll drop more than enough once I actually get to some of them and realize that it actually sucks lol. Most likely expecting that to happen with the astronomy, idk how much ''ooh planets stars'' is gonna help when I'm neck deep in math again

[smile-files]

i'll be completely honest... i don't want to study for the exam i have tomorrow! as it is i've procrastinated enough by spending half the day making collages but i guarantee i'll procrastinate some more

[somedaytakethetime]

Forgot to drop some things before so..

... I'll just leave these here.....

[lieutenantselnia]

This week are the final exams at Austrian high schools and even though it's already been a couple years since I've been through that myself, I still follow this one meme page on Instagram where the students always send in memes afterwards relating to the exams, like where they make fun of weird exam questions or let out their frustrations about bad task descriptions and such. I don't know, it's somehow kind of entertaining to try figure out what the given topics were only based on the memes😂

[fencesandfrogs]

re: math post, the comparison to music is kind of apt in my case in that my dyscalculia makes me essentially tone deaf with regard to math. numbers genuinely do not make sense to me, i cannot wrap my head around them at all. i struggle with extremely basic addition and subtraction to the point that playing a ttrpg is basically impossible for me because my turns take 10x longer than they should because i’m that bad at calculating damage. i love all my friends who love math and i genuinely really admire how good they are at it, but it genuinely doesn’t make a lick of sense to me no matter how hard i try, and i’ve even had teachers openly make fun of me in front of the entire class for making mistakes in it. i truly love how it can bring people joy and how it seems to really provide meaning to others, but for me it’s just a source of pain and suffering, even when i try my hardest to get it. (i also can’t read maps at all which is also part of the dyscalculia :( )

I didn’t really expand on it in my tags but I picked something some people legit just aren’t into! Some people just don’t listen to music. It’s weird to me but I respect it. Same w math like I know some people r never going to like it and that’s fine. I just think the fact that such a high proportion of people dislike it is evidence that something about how we expose people to math is deeply wrong.

(For an explanation of what is wrong with it and how to fix it, see A Mathematician’s Lament. The opening analogy is very similar to the one I made with music, and I love it so much I have a tee shirt custom designed inspired by it.)

I’m not gonna force u to explore math, but I will say the math that post is talking about isn’t. Well.

The math that most mathematicians call beautiful isn’t the stuff with numbers. I have no idea if that makes it any easier for dyscalculia (aside: I used to think I had dyscalculia but it turns out my ADHD is simply way worse than I realized) but it might.

Also like music, you don’t need to be able to play an instrument to appreciate that music is pretty!

Again, I don’t say any of this because I think you personally should like math. It’s fine if you hate math! But I want you to know, like.

I guess on top of me wishing people weren’t essentially trained to hate math, I wish more people understood what the core of math is. Because it’s not about numbers. It’s logic. The core of math is and always has been logic.

Uh I could go on for a long time like I think it’s such bullshit that children hate math when the second layer of math is patterns and kids fucking love patterns, they love when shit is regular and follows rules, and also they love testing the boundaries of rules, which is what math is! but anyway

OH also it’s bullshit if the people you play TTRPGs with don’t let you use an electronic dice roller or something to help you calculate damage and stuff. That’s a disability accommodation.