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spherical harm(onics)
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Try using a weirder norm
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The average person probably only knows that the 3-sphere is a union of two solid tori joined along their boundary. And the non-orientability of the Klein bottle, of course.
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speaking of algebraic QFT, one of the classic references is Bob Wald's Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetime and Black Hole Thermodynamics, which is a wonderful read except that it has possibly the ugliest mathematical typesetting I have ever seen. Chicago was experimenting with upright sans-serif maths, and moreover made a terrible choice of script font and \langle and \rangle
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Disagree with David Hilbert.
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every time there is an eclipse i forget to buy eclipse glasses, but rather than wait for the one person who has glasses to pass them around like a blunt, i simply effortlessly fashion myself a pinhole camera, making me a hero to all the other people who also forgot to buy eclipse glasses. and then i graciously accept my hit of the eclipse glasses because it’s sick as fuck to look directly into the sun
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a five year old note among my 1588 saved notes that just reads: four-dimensional salmon
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i would tell a joke about series, but i think only sum of you would get it
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Neglect all terms greater than order one.
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From a falsehood, derive anything.
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Try using a weirder norm
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Square the circle
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Write f(x)=x as the sum of two periodic functions
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Compare the growth rate of a sequence to that of the harmonic series.
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ok well i have an even faster algorithm for matrix multiplication. simply open youre mind and Know the answer in your soul .O(1)
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three logicians are in a bar. the bartender says "any of you want a drink?". the first logician says "I don't know". the second logician says "I don't know". the third logician says "no".
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