that "OKAY SO" before someone u love starts infodumping........ most blessed feeling in the world
Woke boss forcefemming me on company time
twisting and bitturning
Spent 20 minutes editing the Casino Royale poker scene to be chutes and ladders instead of finishing my English homework.
Could i please get a small mammal cursed bio fact if u have one
the grasshopper mouse of the southwestern United States looks like a standard house mouse but is almost entirely carnivorous and is known to kill and consume everything from less homicidal mice to goddamn rattlesnakes, which they kill by jumping onto the snake’s back and gnawing through its spine
being a self indulgent faggot and using greek statues as pose refs for self portraits (◡ ‿ ◡ ✿)
you skip a couple chapters ahead in your algebraic geometry text and it starts looking like this shit
Me with my knots and string diagrams
too much math turns me into a magnus archives character
I think math teacher don't focus enough on history. Like, yeah, Abel results on the convergence of series are great and all, but did you know Cauchy hated Abel and is indirectly responsible for his death ?
Galois was a math wizard and died in a duel. But did you know he also was kind of a leftist, got thrown out of École Normale Supérieure because of that, joked about killing Louis Philippe and probably died because of that ?
Gauss is cool, but did you know he was saved by Sophie Germain, discovered at the same time Sophie Germain was a woman, and wrote one of the coolest letter blaming "our customs and prejudices" for not allowing women in math ?
Urysohn's lemma is cool, but did you did you know he tragically died while swimming with Alexandrov ? Oh, also they were both gay and in love. And later Alexandrov had a relation with Kolmogorov
There's tons of other stories, even minor ones (like how Italian mathematicians argued against some notations in vector calculus because they were used by Germans). Focusing only on how "abstract" and "pure" math is, is pedantic. Mathematicians, on the other side, are way funnier and not just lost in their abstract and complicated world
hey wait! i know you! we used to be chained next to each other in the cave! wow, so good to see you, how are ya? man. remember how we used to talk about the shadows on the wall together. gosh that was a long time ago. but hey. sure is one heck of a sun out here, right? it's good to see you.
Raven | 24 Transfemme Lesbian | She/Her They/Them | Math Grad Student | Suspected Foxgirl | Math and and other stuff | Professional String Wiggler
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