#mathblr

[autisticaroace]

I'd get rid of both trends if I could. But if I could only get rid of one, I'd probably pick the “girl math” trend (with apologies in advance to Alan Turing for not getting rid of “too gay for math”).

At least straight dude bros with podcasts won't really perpetuate the “too gay for math” trend's stereotype as much as the stereotype of girls being bad with money & math that the “girl math” trend enables.

[leibnizstan]

Gender equality? Broke. Gender bijective homomorphism? Woke

[more-mathematics-mor-lam]

The treat for getting an A in algebraic geometry is learning more algebraic geometry

[baytadax]

To be an atheist is to maintain God. Its existence or non existence, it amount to much the same, on the plane of proof. So proof is not a word often used by the Handdarata, who have chosen not to treat God as a fact, subject either to proof or belief. And they have broken the circle, and go free.

To know which questions are unanswerable and not to answer them. This skill is much needful in times of stress and darkness.

i hate the word opposite. so often the things we call opposite are related in every way except one. lets call them dual instead. duals dont have to be unique. just. in some way opposite. they're a pair actually. friends.

war and chinchillas are way more different than war and peace. but we say war and peace together. war and peace are not opposites, but duals. they grew up together. they are pals. war has never even met a chinchilla.

[sleepy-bebby]

[xyymath]

At the Races

An engineer, a mathematician, and a physicist are betting on horse races.

The engineer measures the horse’s weight and muscle power to pick their favorite.

The mathematician analyzes the statistics of every race in history.

The physicist assumes all horses are spheres.

None of them win.

[h0bg0blin-meat]

Here's the link to the video

👏 SAY 👏 IT 👏 LOUDER 👏

[kcl1627]

Why is this me in every analysis class ??? 😭😭

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?)

[tumbler-polls]

Pick an option at random :)

[justactgaussian]

So I've seen the whole 'Math's Saddest Love Stories' (asymptotes that drift ever closer but never meet etc.), but I think we're missing the potential of Math's Funny Love Stories. The couple whose destiny is an infinite cycle of breaking up and getting back together again:

Oscillating rapidly in and out of each other's life for a while before drifting apart in opposite directions:

Drifting ever closer, until you finally meet and go fuck that:

One who drifts slowly closer to the other, until they acutally meet and decide to make a very sharp turn in the other direction:

Whatever hellscape of contrived coincidences these series of infinite near misses are:

[citizen-saint]

i don’t think you can reclaim that f of g 😨

[mohelconvention]

I’m choosing to believe this means all reticence is gone and you freely giggle without hesitation

The biggest step of a mathematicians journey to maturity is no longer having to resist giggling at words like homogenous and homomorphic.

[lothmoth]

did you know they say calculus is the language of God. did you know they tried to hold math up to infinity like a candle to the void. did you know statisticians plunged into the vastness of random chance and picked out patterns and equations and eight hundred ways to tell you how big your inevitable errors are and how far off those guesses at errors might be. math haters I can't sit with you anymore. human innovation is cradled in these ancient, methodical, desperate attempts at understanding what we are not designed to understand

[dodecalemma]

Grad school quote of the day:

“Lovely man. They shouldn't let him teach.”

[nonexistent-creature]

I love when a textbook has a theorem that is just the most obviously true shit, like girl I sure hope so, if that weren't true I think math would fall apart!