Mathematical Revelation So Great I Almost Became Religious

Euclidean Geometry in Mathematical Olympiads

Geometric proofs… might anyone have a good resource for learning them more formally? I need them for a project I’ve recently begun, and hope to find a guide stronger than those reserved for high school geometry courses haha.

Specifically, i’m looking to understand lines, line intersections, things of that type, in a deeper way.

Thank you! :)

I remember being in elementary school and feeling a deep alienation at people’s just vicious rejection of mathematics, the reason being, like

It’s like. A classic approach to hypothetical communication with aliens that you start with the things you know you have in common and proceed from there. Mathematics is that.

Imagine you approach someone you don’t understand with a thing specifically designed to be something they and you can agree on as a starting point for communication and they just react with “yeah i hate this”

You took this photo? I've loved it for a long time!

when people are like “he’s not even attractive you could find a guy that looks like him at any gas station” i’m like….. well you see there’s beauty everywhere actually

I look at this one uh from time to time -

A lot of people absolutely fail to distinguish between 'I hate this because I was taught this badly' and 'I hate this because this thing is inherently bad', and I hate it.

you know I absolutely agree with the fact that the education system is fucked and traumatises students. I absolutely agree with the fact classes like english and maths and history can be piss boring and teach you nothing of worth and could be a trigger depending on how hellish of a teacher you were given.

Hell, the only reason I love maths is because I primarily engaged with it outside of class and found it fun on my own terms. I'm still bitter towards my history teachers for having clear favourites and not engaging half the class.

but like. if you're railing against the *subjects* themselves, refusing to learn any of the basics as an adult, and bringing up how much you hate them at every opportunity? At some point that becomes a problem you have to deal with yourself.

and if you don't, you're going to be the reason this happens again for the next generation.

What kind of math are you studying?

math tuition is hell im gonna shoot myself with a gun

God Eidolon is really just a victim of the most ridiculous moral consequences ever. Like “Aha, you thought it was a good idea to neglect your own mental health in order to achieve a greater good and save other people’s lives? Well think again, because just maybe giant hell demons will emerge and destroy Japan.” Poor guy never had a chance. The guy got his brain connected directly to the “summon monsters that kill people” button with absolutely no warning that the button existed or that he could press it. Oh also if you reach a certain threshold of stress the button presses itself. Consequences of drinking alien brain goo i guess

i hate when i browse math-related tags on this site and half the posts are people ranting about how much they hate her. why are you so mean to my wife

Getting a lot of: “No but like you don’t get it math is stupid and useless and reading books is actually morally good… and teaches us about the world around us and explains how it works which stupid math doesn’t do why should I learn calculus I would rather shame people into reading Jane Eyre than open a math book or website”

And like … out of the millions of things you can do with basic and foundational math … that shows you how the world works … Calculus, as one example, can literally explain to you why leaves grow at the angle they grow … there is little more beautiful than being able to calculate exactly how nature works and understand why.

There is beauty in every subject … and few other subjects encapsulate ways to understand your surroundings like math.

If you are comfortable shaming people for not reading fiction books because you personally are good at reading them, but uncomfortable being shamed for not doing mathematics consider you are in the exact same boat as people who are afraid to read fiction books because they don’t see why it is important to do so and are unwilling to begin.

You are the people you hate.

Heartbreaking! The obvious letter to use for this variable isn't available because you already used it for something else!