Pick A Point Inside A Triangle And Drop Perpendicular Projections Onto The Sides. These Define Another

the human experience is so crazy. at any time i want, for free, i can comprehend the beauty and the horror of my own fragile existence, the cosmic insigificance and personal significance of my experiences, the impossibly vast yet laughably tiny boundaries of my own consciousness, and feel sick to my stomach with anticipation for everything i have yet to understand and grief for everything i have yet to lose.

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such a weird day today. i finished complete spaces and then moved on to preparing for the math conference i'm going to on sunday. there is a lot of high level stuff so i won't be able to learn everything, of course, but i'm doing my fav thing ever and enjoying it thoroughly. that is, switching from a topic to a topic in the spare of 15 minutes and reading a bit about anything until it stops being ✨super exciting✨

this amounts to a total of 8 hours of math and i am not done yet. love it, absolutely love to waste time like that

concentration: fucking ∞

tomorrow i'm doing an algebra speedrun with bf and two of our friends. this is an experiment aiming at seeing how much information we are able to pack into our heads in one sitting. we haven't studied abstract algebra before. then in a few as i mentioned i am going to a math conference, with bf and our other friend. excited about that too. i fucking love math

guy next to me at work is french and fucking insufferable about it. "chebyshev's inequality? i'm not familiar... do you perhaps mean l'inégalité de bienaymé-tchebychev?" "snell's law? i only know of snell-descartes.." every day he emails me a list of all fields medalists from l'école normale supérieure

I want to follow all of you!

I have a bet going on with a friend. We need a third opinion. Can one find the square root of 2 in pi? And pi in the root of 2

Gut instinct says no. But when you work with infinities, gut instinct is NOT proof. (And such a gut feeling could have easily been the dodgy dinner I cooked myself last night.)

However I cannot even provide a proof.

I have, however tried to give some insight in another post (it should be the one immediately below this one) to perhaps help/provoke a more concrete argument from someone else :)

Me: I should write something

me : … or I could spent 78 hours straight making a miniature library with a working LED chandelier

that sounds a bit like mystery flesh pit national park

I’m Christian and respect the order of creation as God intended it but I’m not gonna lie if I could take a massive vat of agar and grow an alive shopping mall made out of red blood and meat and feed it living human bodies to make it expand larger with more shops and amenities, Without hesitation, Without question I would do exactly that

when a pelican bites you there's no malice in their eyes. they aren't upset at you. they are just hungry and want to see if you fit in their mouths. and if you don't then it's no problem and everything is fine. and if you do then well i guess your fate is sealed but that's ok it's a beautiful animal

omg that's the most beautiful thing I've seen today

Chapter 2 of commutative algebra!

Please fund my research in finding fewer applications of mathematics. I'm going to start my project with trying to find fewer uses of trigonometry, so that ideally we can eliminate the need for remembering trigonometric identities. Then I'm going to move on to researching fewer uses for integration by parts, because that tends to get real tedious real fast. With your unending financial support, I believe I can return mathematics to the purity and simplicity it has always yearned for.