#college math

[speronyx]

why would someone study complex analysis?

(this isn't sarcasm, my professor is shit and we genuinely want to know the hype about it, because rn it seems really boring)

[er-cryptid]

Partial Fraction Decomposition Ex. 5

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[icystorm86skytte]

I am nervous about school, math has never come easily for me, I could use some encouragement. My math anxiety makes me anxious in general sometimes.

[albions-seed]

Sooo...random personal post!

I'm going to back to college in August for my business degree and I'm dreading all things math. I excel in everything but that. The last time I was actively enrolled in college was in 2011 (I know lol) and I attempted one of the required developmental math courses in 2016, which I failed miserably. My accuplacer test scores are now expired, so I'm putting off any courses that require a math prerequisite in order to prepare for the updated accuplacer testing. I'm giving myself about 6 months to study for it, and I know Tumblr has a big studyblr community here.

Please help! I will probably need to have a refresher on pre-algebra, maybe even as far back as middle school math topics as well.

Any tips, study guides, or references I can use? I am viewing these next several months as a chance to start fresh with mathematic concepts (and maybe even an opportunity to learn to love math), and would appreciate any suggestions no matter how juvenile or silly it'd be!

[lavena]

I did not survive, I was tryna nap b4 work after my 8am math class (why, what did I do to piss of the academic advisor, 3 times a week at 8am with a prof that doesn't know how to fucking teach) and my roommate has her phone on and it wakes me up right after I started falling asleep, my phone, blissfully on vibrate then goes off, rahhhg

Get your ribbon here

[augmentedpolls]

This is after any curve is applied

edit: second to last option is /lh

[one-time-i-dreamt]

Brennan Lee Mulligan was teaching me math in college. I wasn't exactly paying attention, because I was playing Minecraft. He said, "This is where you'll be, but you'll need to have all this." And it was just a studying PSA.

[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?)

[ryuusea]

mornings with a math professor…

inspired by this twt

[iheartgirlzn]

leo “i could do college maths at 8 years old” valdez x jason “dyscalculia” grace

[persnickety-doodles]

study time 📚

Old college AU sketches 🥹

[joytri]

boarding school aesthetic

[angelshizuka]

Why do people keep acting like a 100 years is nothing for Stolas just because he's immortal?

For one, Stolas is only roughly 36 right now, so a 100 years is almost triple that. And two, that's like saying because I've been alive for 31 years already, the next 31 years of my life will be a breeze. That's not how time/aging works!?

Saying a 100 years is nothing for immortal beings like the deadly sins for example makes sense, they've been around for like 10 thousand years already, so a 100 years is like 1% of that.

But saying this for Stolas still doesn't make sense to me, he hasn't been alive long enough yet to understand immortality on a personal experience level.

[icystorm86skytte]

And I did it all while screaming

[dustykneed]

i wanted to paint water and then shore leave mcspirk happened... not complaining though ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

been working on this on and off for like... a week and a half i think?? would this have gone quicker if i had used any references at all (yes. the answer is always yes)

[so-very-small]

the thing about g/t is that it has a lot to do with math and physics. which, as someone who personally cannot do either, is initially very scary. but it turns out no one else here can do math either, and we bond over this. and when some fellow g/t fan CAN do math? and talks about physics? we hail them as a wizard. truly gods amongst men.

all hail the G/t STEM Wizards.