Proclus once said:
"This therefore, is mathematics: she reminds you of the invisible forms of the soul; she gives life to her own discoveries; she awakens the mind and purifies the intellect; she brings to light our intrinsic ideas; she abolishes oblivion and ignorance which are ours by birth ..."
Man I love maths
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anyone who has a good grasp on probability (like highschool level lol) please reply/interact with this post. I'm trying to self study probability for an interview prep and it's beating me unconscious :))))
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The thing about the philosophy of mathematics is that there's no articulable position so absurd that some influential mathematician hasn't genuinely held to it. You 100% cannot troll these people; you could walk up to a mathematician and say "I'm a radical finitist, I reject the existence of all numbers larger than 1", and not only would that turn out to be a real thing, some maniac has worked out how to construct set theory under its constraints.
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It's so funny to me that people think of Math/Mathematicians as being hyper-logical and rational. Like, have you seen some of the wild things hiding in the Math?
Did you know there are non-computable numbers?? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaitin%27s_constant)
Did you know that there are things that are true, but we can't prove them??? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_incompleteness_theorems)
Did you know that we can prove that something exists, and yet never actually figure out what that thing is?? (https://mathworld.wolfram.com/NonconstructiveProof.html)
Math is crazy. Math is wild. Math hardly makes sense, and when you think you understand the weirdest parts of it, everyone who hears you explain it to thinks you're a gibbering lunatic.
"In mathematics you don’t understand things. You just get used to them." - von Neumann
(please share more unhinged math with me, i want to see more scary math)
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Math Poll 2.0
Due to a popular demand (stemming from the discussion under this prompt)! 🧮
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Math tells us the saddest love stories
"Parallel lines were never meant to meet"
"Tangent lines only meet once and grow apart forever"
"Asymptotes get closer and closer but will never be together "
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anyone who knows me knows one of my greatest passions in life is astrophysics and my greatest weakness is a lack of comprehension of even the most basic maths
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Me and the mutuals reblogging each others posts :3
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I love mathematicians so fucking much.
My advisor gave me a paper to read through to see if we can extend the methods to the next iteration of the problem. It provides an algorithm that I’m supposed to implement, but I wasn’t getting the same results as the author did.
I emailed them asking for their code and any insight into part of the paper that was confusing me. This motherfucker wrote me back within 24 hours. This is a whole ass human who took time out of their day to dig up their code they used in a paper 15 years ago.
Say what you will about academia being cliquish, but most of these people are eager to help if you just ask.
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