Lemma the Cat

[dodecalemma]

Tumblr, specifically math Tumblr, meet Lemma the cat:

Her owners are two of my math professors, who are married to each other and live in a cottage called “pebble house” in the woods on the edge of campus.

She is my spirit animal.

🐈‍⬛🏡 🧮🏳️‍🌈

[dodecalemma]

Wow! Lemma you’re so popular on this website called Tumblr!

Some of my favorite tags for this post:

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Here’s some more photos for you all:

I cat sat her for a few weeks while I was doing research in the summer a couple years ago. I was taking Calculus with Vector Analysis (aka vector calc aka calc 3) on zoom at the time and she’d always hang out just outside the view of the camera.

The math professors that own her sometimes put her in their examples/problem sets!!!

[thememedaddy]

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[monamoni]

[littlefeatherr]

Unrestrained summer fun 😁

[weaselle]

this must be such a delicate experience for a creature that can dive two stories deep and has been seen cliff diving into the ocean

[fleshdyke]

[artisticlicense-personal]

Such a quiet and gentle experience for a megafauna cryptid that can headbutt a speeding truck and walk away It’s like seeing Godzilla in a kiddie pool

[thistlewhistler]

During a summer heat wave in Alaska growing up (yes it’s a thing), my dad had several sprinklers and a tractor sprinkler going in the yard. From the woods behind the house suddenly came two young babies and a very large mother.

They came directly towards the tractor sprinkler and sat right down.

My dad verrrrry slowly pulled the hose of the other sprinklers, and repositioned them in the backyard so they would spray grass under the shade of several trees.

Lo and behold, the mother moose got up, walked over to the water now pooling beside these trees, and plomped down. The two babies followed after and just fell over in the cool water.

[seasoflife]

Diane Leonard

seasoflife

[draconym]

Painting for @c3rvida3 :3

[viejospellejos]

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[exitwound]

20 examples of periodic solutions to the three-body problem

[locally-normal]

I like to think I understand basic calculus quite well. But on a deep intuitive level I think it still eludes me.

For example, I was packing today, and I thought, oh they're just socks, each one is so small it effectively takes up no space. If I take very many socks, they also won't take up any space.

This, to my dismay, is not true.

Similarly, deep down I feel I should never have to buy olive oil more than once. After all, I barely use any each time I use it. These small amounts should never add up to a big whole.

Maybe one day I'll have a true intuitive grasp of integration.

[dodecalemma]

This in particular is something philosophers spent hundreds of years trying to grasp.

[skopostheorie]

This is probably my favourite tweet ever hello we are your bank

[maureen2musings]

Cotton grass season

Jari Romppainen

[noelements-setempty]

Challenge of the day: what are these?

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[saltywinteradult]

just look at these fluffy motherfuckers. i want ten of them

[sleg]

[catasters]

[nietp]

Grenfell hooked mats, 1920s-40s (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)

The quiet months of February and March were known as the “matting season” along the rugged coast of northern Newfoundland and Labrador. It was a time of respite from the fishing season. Generations old by the time the Grenfell Mission began, the roots of mat hooking lay with the founding English and Scottish settlers. The women all hooked, most from their earliest childhood. […]

In 1928, the Industrial Supervisor M.A. Pressley-Smith sent out a plea through the mission’s quarterly publication, Among the Deep Sea Fishers, “Save Your Old Silk Stockings! When your stockings run let them run to Labrador! We need silk stockings and underwear in Unlimited Quantities! Please send your silk stockings and underwear no matter how old or worn! We need such silk and artificial silk for the making of hooked rugs of a beautiful type!” Silk stockings when dyed to beautiful soft hues, helped propel the mat industry into its peak production years of 1926 to the early 1930s.

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