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proof by stirring it then blowing a bubble

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My favourite thing to have made in my complex number desmos graph: For complex number Q=a+bi, this function graphs (Q/sqrt(a^2+b^2))*(ab)^(1/3), displayed as a grid where each point is moved to wherever it ends up after going through the function.

Also rotated pi/4 rad because that way looks cooler. If you happen to have any questions about it, I'd be very happy to explain them!

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please reblog for wider sample size

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One frustrating thing about being a mathematician is that people who aren't into math heard that Einstein quote that's like "you haven't understood something unless you can explain it in layman's terms" and use it to mean "if it can't be explained to me in five minutes it's needlessly complicated, this person is a pretentious snob and academia is gatekeeping knowledge". And like everything in life, the matter of scientists not being able to/not caring to explain their work to people who aren't at the same level of expertise as them is a complex one that is worthy of being discussed, but here's the thing that you have to keep in mind if you haven't done math since high school:

the further you get into math, the more specialized your field becomes. You start working of puzzles that are small, but fit into a greater web of similar problems, like knitting a beautiful flower that's meant to be incorporated into a huge quilt. And all of math is build on top of each other, so you can't get to the most interesting, current math being discussed in the world without getting through the building blocks that are taught to you in elementary school, high school and the university.

You ask me to explain my thesis to you and I can tell you the title, but you won't know what the main words in it mean. And that's not because you are stupid, that's just because to learn that word you have to spend time learning a hundred others. I love math, it's my favourite thing in the universe and I always have time to talk about it, so if you want, we can sit down and I'll tell you everything you need to know to understand what I'm currently working on. You can ask me questions and I will reformulate, you can ask me to go over things again and I will oblige. With your permission, I will get a piece of paper and draw shapes and schemes to help us, but it won't take five minutes. It can't take just five minutes. That is a concession you will have to make if you truly want to learn.

(Unfortunately, I don't want to disclose the title of my thesis on tunglr dot hell, because it's super specific and I don't feel like doxxing myself. But I hope this resonates with some people. I work both in symplectic geometry and Riemannian geometry, and I have to say between the two Riemannian is a little bit easier to explain, because I can just talk about distances, but symplectic geometry or Lie groups... I'm afraid I just can't explain those in a sentence because they rely on people knowing what differentiation means, and that's not knowledge you necessarily retain if you work outside a stem field. Explaining that in a few sentences would eat up the whole five minutes).

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My latest New Scientist cartoon

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I feel lied to. This is where the bugs bunny NO meme cokes from

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come closer i am a normal person with normal feelings about math

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reblog if your name isn't Amanda.

2,121,566 people are not Amanda and counting!

We’ll find you Amanda.

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Loop de Loop Closed Curves

From this GeoGebra applet.

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Zoozve, my beloved

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Delete the middle third of an interval.

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Delete the middle third of an interval.

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Math just gives me this unexplainable joy :D

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What an elegant proof, I will hear no critics.

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Give in to applied math (learn fancy ways to braid your and your friends' hair)