In number Theory, A perfect Number is A positive Integer that Is Equal To The Sum Of Its Positive divisors,

Incatption or catception

therapist: so, how have you been coping with your anxiety lately?

Me, nervously: Well… I’ve been trying to treat myself like a nervous cat…

therapist, stifling a goodnatured laugh: Oh? can you explain that to me?

Me: Well… if you have a nervous cat, the first thing you do is make sure their environment is safe and remove stressors… and you make sure they have enough food and water and places to hide… and you provide some enrichment in case they need to work out energy…

Therapist: And how are you applying that to yourself?

Me: Um. If I feel anxious, I’ll see if I need to back out of any sites or conversations, enforce my boundaries… check my environment for flashing lights or painful noises… make sure I’m hydrated and have eaten… and work on a hobby

Therapist: those are all excellent things! You’re a nervous cat and you need care and kindness!

I hear a lot of people bitching that they can’t leave kudos multiple times per story, or can’t leave kudos on every chapter, or whatever.

Well, take a page out of this marvelous book, because I swear I’ve never been so happy to receive kudos as waking up to multiple people having done this on multiple chapters on a story I just posted.

The bar just got raised, folks.

“Before I knew it there were 17 tales, some of which are mirrored or intersecting with one another. The one about two young con artists who fall in love while hanging out at fancy resorts trying to score rich romantic beneficiaries. The one where longtime college sweethearts had very different plans for the same night, one to end it and one who brought a ring. Dorothea, the girl who left her small town to chase down Hollywood dreams - and what happens when she comes back for the holidays and rediscovers an old flame. The ‘unhappily ever after’ anthology of marriages gone bad that includes infidelity, ambivalent toleration, and even murder. The most righteous motive, to avenge the fallen. The realization that maybe the only path to healing is to wish happiness on the one who took it away from you. One starring my grandmother, Marjorie, who still visits me sometimes…if only in my dreams. I have no idea what will come next. I have no idea about a lot of things these days and so I’ve clung to the one thing that keeps me connected to you all. That thing always has and always will be music. And may it continue, evermore.”

evermore by Taylor Swift (December 11, 2020).

“If he shall be Mr. Hyde, I shall be Mr. Seek” is such a stupid line you think it’d be from a tumblr post or something but it’s actually from famous piece of classic literature The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Melting some silver. 

It was melted in a ceramic crucible with an oxygene/methane torch, under circa 1h. The silver was liquified under a layer of borax (it prevents the oxidation of the molten silver).

After all have melted we just dropped it in a bucket of water and took out this shiny lump of this beautiful metal.

You know, people think mathematics is complicated. Mathematics is the simple bit. Its the stuff we can understand. Its cats that are complicated. I mean, what is it in those little molecules and stuff that make one cat behave differently than another, or that make a cat? And how do you define a cat? I have no idea.

— John Horton Conway

Mastermind is so important because she's like "I'm so manipulative and I schemed and twisted fate on purpose and it was only because I care but this is a massive confession on my part and it's just this prt of me" and the whole thing is a confession and explaination and almost asking for forgiveness for it and he's like "yeah I knew I've known this whole time and I love you anyway"

types of mathematical terminology

descriptive

honeycomb

gradient

quiver

computable

less descriptive

centroid

chaos

end

flag

not descriptive

ring

allegory

surreal

group

you know this person, right?

euclidean

abelianization

grothendieck

cartesian

took some non-english word and hoped for the best

eigen

algebra

shtuka

nullstellensatz

i made up a word!

ergodic

functor

adele

logarithm

idk, just give it a generic name

regular

well

admissible

well-admissible

like, specifically, it’s a vague thing

flasque

lax

fuzzy

pseudo

one symbol and a word

*-algebra

D-module

K-theory

†-compact (although that’s going to usually be written “dagger compact”)

just random letters

rg

cwf

Fσ

erf

There are times when I just want to set my desktop to the Lewis Chessmen because looking at them always brightens my day.

I mean

No matter how your day is going, these chess pieces are clearly having a worse one.