Einstein's Pencil

he/him | main @jumpingthesefences | primarily reblogs | college student majoring in physics and probably math | also super into language learning | icon by @hotvanilla on picrew

[hoktom]

[crinege]

@thestargazingstrawberry

[giantimp1]

Intro courses are fun until you take them midway through your masters, having to prove basic stuff for coursework all the while rolling your eyes at how trivial it is

[hyperoperationfractallisation]

I like Math. Math will never lie to me.

I mean sure I might lie to myself on behalf of Math (a.k.a. being wrong / a fucking idiot) but Math Herself would never lie to me.

[onrtrp]

twisted gelfand's fucked-up trick

[real-real-numbers]

who up formalizing they intuition

[pony-coffee]

she formalize on my intuition till I solve open problems

[drowninginthedarya]

[despazito]

[prokopetz]

Reasons why computer problems seem to mysteriously vanish as soon as a technician shows up:

You were spacing out and skipping a step somewhere without realising it, and you can’t reproduce it when you try to demonstrate it because now you’re paying attention to what you’re doing

It’s an intermittent electrical connection fault that’s being aggravated by movement/vibrations in your desk; you need to check your cables

The act of explaining the problem to someone caused you to figure out what you were doing wrong

The real cause of the problem was somewhere upstream of your terminal device – for example, at the network service provider – and it got fixed at the source while you were waiting

Your computer is in a location with poor airflow and is overheating; waiting for the technician to arrive gave it a chance to cool off

Despite all appearances to the contrary, modern computers actually have very good fault recovery, and most minor problems will sort themselves out on their own if you give it a minute

Magic

[bookshelfdreams]

the computer doesn’t respect you. next time, try firm eye contact to establish dominance.

[vampirejuno]

Having a much older, much more experienced person tell you you're doing well in your shared hobby is better than crack, especially when the hobby tends to be 80% retired ppl. Like, hell yeah I'm gonna get a good grade in birdwatching and I'm not even 50. Child prodigy moment

[vampirejuno]

Spotted a bird today that turned out to be a yellow-bellied sapsucker (uncommon here this time of year apparently) and received several "well spotted!"s and "good find!"s. You wish you were me

[mathsuggestions]

Decide to give up on the problem only to come back to it five minutes later.

[imperialcyane]

you know, it's real interesting that normal vectors are always perpendicular to whatever they're normal to. Like, no matter what you are, "normal" is always going away from you in a direction you don't care about or can't comprehend

[mathhombre]

Counting

Klyver Markus on FB.

[tsarina-anadyomene]

being in academia is kind of like where you're on everest and you see the frozen bodies of the other people who've tried it strewn about everywhere and you think "okay, but that's them and i'm me"

[selfmaderibcageman]

Bloch killed three of his family members, for which he was institutionalized in a mental asylum for 31 years, during which all of his mathematical output was produced.[1]

[official-kircheis]

All of his publications, including those relating to Bloch's constant, were written while he was committed. Bloch corresponded with several mathematicians, including Georges Valiron, George Pólya, Jacques Hadamard and others,[4] giving his return address as only "57 Grande rue, Saint-Maurice", never mentioning that this was in a psychiatric hospital. Several of his correspondents were thus unaware of his confinement.[4]

[galois-groupie]

least deranged complex analyst

[flameshadowconjuring]

Doing a PhD is constantly ping-ponging between "This is so hard, how do I even begin solving it" and "Man, in hindsight the solution I came up with is so obvious. Only an idiot like myself could have thought this was hard. This new problem though..."

[kupalinka6]

[mathsuggestions]

Map a curve to the space of lines of the field.