#number theory

[oneefin]

number theory* diagram

[fireemoji1f525]

Are you an aspiring math major, but don't know what your field of study should be? Consider using this flow chart to help determine what you should focus on!

This is an updated version of a previous chart I made, shoutouts/heads ups to the following

@algebraic-dumbass I used smartdraw for the first one (I screenshotted instead of paying) but since the scope expanded I figured screenshotting wouldn't work well here, and so I used draw.io here. Thanks again for the idea!

@spinspinspinspinspin @renew-world I have tried to include some more algebra here!

@eulers-biggest-fan @khnuvr @zahlenfreak I have now included combinatorics (and friends?)

@the-least-undefinable-ordinal I had no idea where to put set theory I am so sorry. I had the idea for a prompt ('Do you want people to wildly underestimate how complicated your field is?') but couldn't find a place to slot it

@mathemagicalfae I added in math education and actuarial science (I can't believe I didn't think of those)!

Also thank you to everyone saying this is accurate or that they followed it and landed on their specialty. If you couldn't tell from the above @'s I did read every tag <3

[zeda1]

(Mathematician here)

Quite possibly the funniest targeted ad I’ve ever gotten

[rbrooksdesign]

"Serendipity-V-30," July 30, 2026, digital, Reginald Brooks

Serendipity

Imagination -- simply

Complementary

[hilberts-hotellensatz]

i love saying that "galois acts on this space" etc, as though my bestie evariste is personally showing up and throwing stuff around

[algebraic-dumbass]

contrary to popular belief, number theory is not the study of numbers. it is the study of variables named p, n, m, and if you're doing really out there things, \ell

[stone-cold-groove]

Chapter I: Space Age Mathematics. Page illustration detail from Moving Ahead in Arithmetic. Holt, Rhinehart and Winston - 1963.

[snail-and-snail]

countability