So, My Spouse Has Been Exploring His Gender Lately; He Also Just Built Himself A New Laptop. Today He

If I were writing a math textbook I’d have a section in the beginning called “A Note on Notation” where I introduce all the notation Im using. And everyone would want to fuck me sooooo bad

Fairly leaning into art category similar to architecture - there is utility involved and also a lot of creative freedom. Would you say shelter as a concept was discovered or invented? It was a necessity to be able to survive.

I view mathematics as this world people have built brick by brick over the span of humanity. And you are a tourist looking around, marveling at the beautiful buildings (and some interestingly ugly ones as well) built by those who came before you. If you are lucky you might be able to lay down a few bricks yourself.

You don't always understand why something looks the way it does, but sometimes you do and then it's like you are suddenly the smartest person in the room.

feel free to rb for reach

Prof after saying maybe we should be teaching these to first year undergrads, the calculation is really simple but they might struggle with understanding forms - stuck on said calculation for the next 40 minutes of class.

Why are mathematicians* so USELESS at simple arithmetic? You're telling me I possess knowledge that would get me hailed as a lord 2000 years ago, but if I had two bags of wheat in one hand and three in the other, I would say there's six bags? What the fuck

*it's me, I'm mathematicians

If you want to not talk about your caste on tumblr that’s your business but if you’re upper caste hindu (and no I *do not care* about your theology or if you consider yourself an atheist or some shit any more than the mobs do when they’re deciding which one of us to murder) and you want to present yourself as and collect all of the poc clout for being a ~brown indian desi~ and present your culture as “indian” or worse “desi culture” I 100% do not fuck with you and you’re actively participating in the forced sanskritisation of the lower castes that enables countless daily acts of cultural genocide. You need to stop that shit. It’s not cute.

I was thinking through what else I’m looking forward to this holiday season and I realized I haven’t mentioned it on here, just on discord, but— MY MOMS BEEN MAKING ME A REALLY COOL ART THING??

I think I’ve talked about it before, but my mom has been a quilter for most of my life and in the last few years started doing these really cool fabric collages, and it was my turn to request one so I asked for a phoenix cause I’m obsessed with this one art piece I did in art therapy ages ago

Anyway, my mom has been working on it and THIS was the last update I got???

I’m so excited for it?? Can’t wait to see where it’s at by the time I get there this weekend

It is high time we also start boycotting everyone involved in this project.

all these arguments about the new harry potter casting but all i can think is that every person involved in the series has willingly signed up to work with such an outspoken transphobe

Awww

@mybeanalgebra I SEE YOU ONLINE 🫵 HELLO

having depression makes your friends seem like the coolest most put together people on earth like wow... you got out of bed, had breakfast, went to work, AND spent some time on a hobby when you got home....? that's so impressive you're like superman or something. can i borrow your power.

Do you have some idea of what a group is? and do you have any experience navigating math textbooks?

What the hell is group theory...

I've tried watching a couple videos about it and I barely understand what it's about TwT

It's so abstract!

I seek your help mathblr, how would you explain group theories to someone who has never had any direct experience with it and how does it play with other fields of math?

The very basic basics I mean ofc (but if you'd like to provide an in depth post I'm not against it)