#mathblr

Throwback to when I accidentally took a class meant for masters students cause the geometry professor is cool as fuck and I already took differential geometry because of him and decided this was the next step from that. Honestly had no idea until the professor asked me like a month or so in if I thought I could handle it, and to be honest this was a lot less shit than a lot of the physics classes.

Got a C which I feel like is pretty good for a third year math minor, maybe given the chance I SHOULD do math for my masters..

Spent like 4 hours trying to figure this out cause it was like 4 in the morning b y the time I did

I’m gonna be posting a bunch of old notes probably sometime this summer

mentally deteriorating but hey suns out meaning we can nap on grass again | playlist

ode to the hades for creating the most relatable main character in the history of gaming;

vacuously-true:

the-real-numbers:

vacuously-true:

I think that the 2022 mathblr side plot is me becoming increasingly more obsessed with the fact that the moon is a planet while @the-real-numbers becomes increasingly obsessed with rats and mice

Large crossover event happens when we realize the moon is in fact made of cheese

!!!

any tips for building mathematical intuition? recommended reading? feeling worse every day realising my analysis is kinda shit. really want to improve

I just have a dream

out of this world.

they call us dreamers,

but we are those that don’t sleep.

“Pretty sure Earth adopted me from stars.”

“No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.”

“Chaos is only understood when it is loved by the wild, not the weak”

“The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.”

— N D T

“half of her beauty is her brain”

godel-rhymes-with-turtle:

It’s Turing machine Tuesday

This is like an advanced trolley problem. Five people are tied to the tape, and the Turing machine will hit them unless you give it a good input, but even if you have an idea, it’s impossible to decide whether it would halt.

twocubes:

averyterrible:

twocubes:

twocubes:

• FantasySociology (what would it do to agriculture if there was dragons)
• FantasyPsychology (the mental effects of having certain patterns of thoughts that generate fireballs)
• FantasyBiology (what if u had lighting sacks in yr cheeks)
• FantasyChemistry (these r the elements and what u can do with them)
• FantasyPhysics (orbital mechanics and magical floating rocks: a guide)
• FantasyMathematics (its just normal mathematics)

K I’m only going to say this once, because people keep bringing it up:

Using a different base is normal mathematics. It is something that you learn in math class in our reality. It is often a part of the middle- or high-school math curriculum. It is normal. Everyone knows about binary, as an example. You can read about it on wikipedia. It is not something that only makes sense in a fantasy world, it is a thing that is understood in the real world. It is normal.

fantasy mathematics: division by the additive identity and infinity+1 are both well-defined, meaningful operations which obey the laws of fantasy arithmetic

That’s just like, the extended surreal numbers, in analogy with the extended reals, with like a NaN added on. Normal. Next.

The thing with maths is that it doesn’t describe the real world, like sciences, so it’s purely bound by our imagination. Anything that you can come up with is either already a thing mathematicians study, or something that leads to a logical contradiction very fast and therefore not worth studying.

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demonessryu:

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dat-physics-boi:

diekerel:

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dat-physics-boi:

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educate me tumblr

There is (probably, by current models) a state of degenerate matter in neutron stars called nuclear pasta, and that’s exactly what it sounds like. They are atomic nuclei condensed into varying configurations increasing in density as you go towards the core, and these configurations are named after different types of pasta due to the surface level similarity.

there are:

-the gniocci phase, where some nuclei stick together into blobs of 2 or 3 nuclei, just like gniocci tend to do

-the spaghetti phase, where they form long strings

-the lasagna phase, where they form connected sheets

-the bucatini phase, where it’s solid except for some holes

and

-the swiss cheese phase, where it’s solid except for a few empty bubbles

I ASSUME YOU WERE JUST STRINGING WORDS TOGETHER BUT WIKIPEDIA BACKS YOU UP

I REMAIN UNCONVINCED PHYSICISTS SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO NAME THINGS

Gaud, all scientists are like this. There’s molecules or chemicals or something in our body named after Sonic the Hedgehog and Pikachu. There’s a bee named after cartoonist Gary Larson. No field of science is sacred.

and there are math things named shit like
‘tendril perversion’,
‘the monster group’,
‘the ham sandwich theorem’ and
‘the hairy ball theorem’

not even math is safe my friend, nothing is sacred anymore

babe what the fuck

These two came up in a work document years ago and I haven’t been able to forget them since

• theYou Only Look Once object detection model
• theCox-Zucker machine

klavierpanda:

The real answer will surprise you. (It’s a, c and d.)