21 VII 2023

homotopy groups of fucking spheres

I'm still salty about this half a decade later.

What was the most upsetting result in mathematics for you?

Thank you, /r/ProgrammerHumor, I love you endlessly.

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15 V 2022

I have a topology test this friday, not gonna lie I'm kinda stressed. this is my favourite subject and I am dedicating a great deal of time to learn it so if I get a low grade it undermines the efficiency of my work. everyone thinks I'm an "expert", but internally I feel like I lied to them. it's ridiculous, because I can solve all the theoretical problems fairly well but the moment I have to calculate something for a specific example of a space I am clueless. and it's about applying theory to problems, right? so what is it worth

other than that tomorrow is a participation round in the integral competition at my university. I am participating. I don't have any high hopes for this, because it's been a while since I practiced integration and I am not motivated to do so because it's not an important skill – wolfram exists. either way could be fun, that's why I decided to go there

I am dreading the fact that I'll have to sit down and learn all the material from the probability theory until the exams. I've been ignoring it completely so far, because it's boring and complicated. the last homework broke me, it's high time to get my shit together

A monoid? Oh, you mean a monad on a one point set in the bicategory of spans of sets?

saving this for self-care and for anyone who might need this

also, I can add: squint your eyes hard and then looking at something far away. it's supposed to help your eyes relax and a bonus simple grounding exercise!

from my personal experience, once you start paying attention to how different it feels on your eyes to look at something far away as opposed to something close, you can relax your eyes without needing an object to look at. now when I'm going to bed I imagine a tree far away and I feel my eyes relaxing, it helps with me fall alseep faster. it might be a placebo ofc, I know nothing about eyes, but it is still a good trick for falling asleep regardless of the supposed effect of it on the eyes

We need like “unclench your jaw” posts but for eye strain. Like

Go look at something 20ft away for 20 seconds.

me when Čech cohomology

i love math. i hate math. i can do it all day, everyday. i cannot solve a single question. it's my favorite subject. I would rather kms than open the book. it's beautiful and everything makes sense and it's the best. it's fucking useless and nothing is logical and it's the worst. it's the loml. it's my arch nemesis.

welcome ✨

i'm a math student, currently persuing master's degree. this semester I'm taking courses on complex manifolds, category theory, equivariant cohomology and representation theory

my bachelor's thesis was about my partial result in the knot/link theory. right now I'm finishing that proof and hoping to publish it when (if?) I'm done. my interests include algebraic and geometric topology and the goal for this year is to get to know some algebraic geometry

I post updates of how I'm doing, photos of my ugly notes and sometimes share some study methods that proved to be useful to me

oh and math is my special interest, I take it way too seriously lol

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my posts with study tips:

tips for studying math

tips for studying math part 2: you have an exam but the course is boring

Me: I should write something

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

Theory Time

The reason endermen don’t like it when you look at them is because they communicate telepathically with one another by locking eyes! Humans are absolutely not designed to do this so when we look at them we are accidentally projecting all of our thoughts into them at the same time and it hurts :(

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

Chapter 2 of commutative algebra!