Math Enjoyer

they/them, currently majoring in CS with a minor in math

[mathenjoyer]

inspired by this reddit post and the decor from my friend's childhood home

[flyingbooks42]

You may think that I have only one Banach-Tarski paradox joke, but actually, I have two.

[beardedmrbean]

[tempestuousreed]

I figured out this cool new baking technique yesterday. If you put a little bit of bread dough on the stove to rise, then you add a bit more dough to the bowl and it still rises, then you know that your dough will rise for any arbitrarily large amount of dough.

[neatlymanifolded]

Fuck i keep forgetting i can do polls again, my favorite hobny

Opinion on Lockhart's "A Mathematicians Lament"?

Not a mathematician

Firmly positive

More positive than negative

More negative than positive

Firmly negative

True neutral / Recused / Uhhh I've run out of funny cop outs, just answer

Voting ended onOct 5, 2025

[huiopl064]

axiom of choice?

yay

nay

nuance (comment)

what?

results

Voting ended onSep 7, 2025

rb 4 sample size pls

[pv1isalsoimportant]

mathematical revelation so great i almost became religious

[tealeafed]

One thing I love about studying math is that when you ask any fellow student or prof why they went into math we all say it’s because we find it beautiful. It’s so diametrically opposed to the opinion that everyone else has about math that it feels like some kind of virus that infects you and makes you unable to study anything else

[math-memes]

[threadedtheorems]

This full binary tree branches out over 8 levels 🌿✨, stitched with stem stitch and dotted with French knot leaves. Who knew recursion could look so cute? Template in my blog description if you want to stitch your own!

[abalidoth]

California girls we are uncountable

By Cantor's diagonal proof

No bijection over to the naturals

Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh!

[mathenjoyer]

inspired by this reddit post and the decor from my friend's childhood home

[michaelrotonal]

someone forgot to define "set"

[mathenjoyer]

the definition of a set has been left as an exercise for the reader

[algebraic-dualist]

I wish *do math together* was a more achievable hobby to share with people.

[weirdvic]

It is achievable!!

The ideal setup is friends studying the same thing at the same level, but once you graduate that becomes complicated.

But even if you only have vaguely compatible interests or are at slightly different levels in your studies, you can still do that!

I have a friend who is still a graduate student and with interests closer to representation theory than number theory, but we set up a 2-person reading group on a book we both found cool and didn't know too much about (Hienart, Local Laglands for GL_2) and it's the best part of my weeks!

On a smaller scale I also send lots of random problems to people, and usually that sparks nice discussions. And sometimes they send random problems back, it's great stuff!

[algebraic-dualist]

The reading group idea is an excellent point.

Aside: Damn, that book looks awesome, definitely adding it to my infinite backlog of books to read one day....

[dreams-of-soft-rain]

[p-adict]

thought I would add my animation demonstrating why a klein bottle cut in half is two möbius strips

[todays-xkcd]

Chemistry grad students have been spotted trying to lure campus squirrels into laundry hampers in the hope that it sparks inspiration.

Snake-in-the-Box-Problem [Explained]

Transcript

[A panel with text both above and below the illustration, with further text outside the panel below.] [In the panel, above the illustration:] A snake slithers around a hypercube. No two non-consecutive parts of its coils can be on adjacent corners. [Three small illustrations of 4-dimensional hypercubes, each with a snake slithering around its edges. Each illustration has a red line or lines indicating an edge or edges where two non-consecutive parts of the snake are on adjacent corners. Below each hypercube is a red X.] [A large illustration depicting a 4-dimensional hypercube with a snake slithering around its edges.] [Below the large illustration is text printed in green. To the left of the text is a green checkmark.] Dimensions=4 Max length=7 [The following text is printed in black, except for the last word "UNSOLVED" which is printed in red:] Snake(N) = Largest snake that can fit in an N-dimensional hypercube Snake(N=1, 2, 3 .. 8) = 1, 2, 4, 7, 13, 26, 50, 98 Snake(N>8) = UNSOLVED

[Text outside the panel:] It turns out every scientific field has a key thought experiment that involves putting a cute animal in a weird box for no reason. So far, quantum mechanics and graph theory have found theirs, but most other fields are still working on it.

[boycritter]

“love triangle” ? yeah of course i do !

[charl0ttan]

they dont tell you this but the worst thing that can happen to you as a math major is forgetting how to draw a rectangle around an answer

[charl0ttan]

DONT DO THIS!!!! WWORST MISTAKE OF MY LIFE.