Math ruins you.
Yesterday I read “lol” as “absolute value of o”.
I am surely going insane. Thanks, math.
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Math ruins you.
Yesterday I read “lol” as “absolute value of o”.
I am surely going insane. Thanks, math.
you can tell how badly I’m procrastinating an assignment based on how many things im reblogging at once
Had a fun crafting day painting pumpkins instead of doing any grad school work 😅
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Gotta make room for the smart shit
Fun fact as you go through college all the people majoring in any kind of math or engineering gradually forget how to do basic fucking arithmetic because their brain is full of the parts of math that you can’t do on a calculator in less than a second. Eventually if they’re cut off from their tech they pretty much have to ask an art major how long division works.
That’s actually something that psychology has confirmed before. The brain retains things better when they can’t be easily looked up.
The Mathematics Student’s version of “send nudes” is send solutions.
i did a thing on my phone today
“One of the most painful parts of teaching mathematics is seeing students damaged by the cult of the genius. The genius cult tells students it’s not worth doing mathematics unless you’re the best at mathematics, because those special few are the only ones whose contributions matter. We don’t treat any other subject that way! I’ve never heard a student say, ‘I like Hamlet, but I don’t really belong in AP English – that kid who sits in the front row knows all the plays, and he started reading Shakespeare when he was nine!’ Athletes don’t quit their sport just because one of their teammates outshines them. And yet I see promising young mathematicians quit every year, even though they love mathematics, because someone in their range of vision was ‘ahead’ of them. We lose a lot of math majors this way. Thus, we lose a lot of future mathematicians; but that’s not the whole of the problem. I think we need more math majors who don’t become mathematicians. More math major doctors, more math major high school teachers, more math major CEOs, more math major senators. But we won’t get there until we dump the stereotype that math is only worthwhile for kid geniuses.”
— Jordan Ellenberg, How Not To Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking
Real’s Math Ask Meme
What math classes have you taken?
What math classes did you do best in?
What math classes did you like the most?
What math classes did you do worst in?
Are there areas of math that you enjoy? What are they?
Why do you learn math?
What do you like about math?
Least favorite notation you’ve ever seen?
Do you have any favorite theorems?
Better yet, do you have any least favorite theorems?
Tell me a funny math story.
Who actually invented calculus?
Do you have any stories of Mathematical failure you’d like to share?
Do you think you’re good at math? Do you expect more from yourself?
Do other people think you’re good at math?
Do you know anyone who doesn’t think they’re good at math but you look up to anyway? Do you think they are?
Are there any great female Mathematicians (living or dead) you would give a shout-out to?
Can you share a good math problem you’ve solved recently?
How did you solve it?
Can you share any problem solving tips?
Have you ever taken a competitive exam?
Do you have any friends on Tumblr that also do math?
Will P=NP? Why or why not?
Do you feel the riemann zeta function has any non-trivial zeroes off the ½ line?
Who is your favorite Mathematician?
Who is your least favorite Mathematician?
Do you know any good math jokes?
You’re at the club and Andrew Wiles proves your girl’s last theorem. WYD?
You’re at the club and Grigori Perlman brushes his gorgeous locks of hair to the side and then proves your girl’s conjecture. WYD?
Who is/was the most attractive Mathematician, living or dead? (And why is it Grigori Perlman?)
Can you share a math pickup line?
Can you share many math pickup lines?
Can you keep delivering math pickup lines until my pants dissapear?
Have you ever dated a Mathematician?
Would you date someone who dislikes math?
Would you date someone who’s better than you at math?
Have you ever used math in a novel or entertaining way?
Have you learned any math on your own recently?
When’s the last time you computed something without a calculator?
What’s the silliest Mathematical mistake you’ve ever made?
Which is better named? The Chicken McNugget theorem? Or the Hairy Ball theorem?
Is it really the answer to life, the universe, and everything? Was it the answer on an exam ever? If not, did you put it down anyway to be a wise-ass?
Did you ever fail a math class?
Is math a challenge for you?
Are you a Formalist, Logicist, or Platonist?
Are you close with a math professor?
Just how big is a big number?
Has math changed you?
What’s your favorite number system? Integers? Reals? Rationals? Hyper-reals? Surreals? Complex? Natural numbers?
How do you feel about Norman Wildberger?
Favorite casual math book?
Do you have favorite math textbooks? If so, what are they?
Do you collect anything that is math-related?
Do you have a shrine Terence Tao in your bedroom? If not, where is it?
Where is your most favorite place to do math?
Do you have a favorite sequence? Is it in the OEIS?
What inspired you to do math?
Do you have any favorite/cool math websites you’d like to share?
Can you reccomend any online resources for math?
What’s you favorite number? (Wise-ass answers allowed)
Does 6 really *deserve* to be called a perfect number? What the h*ck did it ever do?
Are there any non-interesting numbers?
How many grains of sand are in a heap of sand?
What’s something your followers don’t know that you’d be willing to share?
Have you ever tried to figure out the prime factors of your phone number?
If yes to 65, what are they? If no, will you let me figure them out for you? 😉
Do you have any math tatoos?
Do you want any math tatoos?
Wanna test my theory that symmetry makes everything more fun?
Do you like Mathematical paradoxes?
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Are you a fan of algorithms? If so, which are your favorite?
Can you program? What languages do you know?
Math has a way of going: ok, neat, ok, ok, fairly pretty, ok, ok, holy fuck how did those oks come together to make a fucking masterpiece.
It’s like.. you watched someone paint 1/10 of a painting, cover it up, and then paint the next 1/10th… and each time it’s like, ok, I kinda get that, and then suddenly they get to the end and you’re can only go woah.
(The math in question being covering spaces)
“The trick to learning math is to complain constantly.”
— Topology professor
Game Theory on Numb3rs ("Assassin," Season 2, Episode 5)
Don: We're thinking Gabriel's assassination is going to look like an accident.
Charlie: Awesome. That gives us a better chance of winning this game.
Megan: What game?
Charlie: Hide-and-seek.
Don: What are you talking about, like the kid's version?
Charlie: A mathematical approach to it, yes. See, the assassin must hide in order to accomplish his goal. We must seek and find the assassin before he achieves that goal.
Megan: Ah, behavioural game theory, yeah. We studied this at Quantico.
Charlie: I doubt you studied it the way that Rubinstein, Tversky, and Heller studied two-person, constant-sum hide-and-seek with unique mixed strategy equilibria.
Megan: No, not quite that way.
what she says: i'm fine
what she means: isn't it crazy how the derivative of e^x is e^x? That's such an arbritrary number isn't it? At the same time it's not, though. Because at any point on e^x, the slope is equal to e^x. But at the same time, the integral of e^x is also e^x. so not only is the slope of e^x e^x, the area underneath the graph of e^x is also e^x. Does that not blow your fucking mind?
the most relatable thing in the world is when the math teacher writes “how?” , “why?” or just simply “?” on your math paper
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