The Black Metal Mathematician @todeuterostherion - Tumblr Blog

Making fun of girls who dream of being a wife and stay-at-home-mom actually doesn’t make you progressive or feminist or cool, it just makes you a person who shits on someone else’s dream, a.k.a an asshole

weirdhumansweallare

Whenever someone says that I say “Okay, whatever floats your boat, I guess” and then I think “Why would she want that? Isn’t it boring to just sit around all day and do nothing?”

ablogforyoungmommys

Moms don’t “sit around all day and do nothing” - they have a incredibly important 24/7 job: raising little human beings. Don’t devalue that by calling it “nothing”.

shaycode

Man, my mom cooked, cleaned, paid the bills, went grocery shopping, did my hair every morning before school and every night (which, as a white woman with no prior experience of doing black hair, especially on a tender-headed child, is no easy feat). She helped with my homework, consoled me after a bad day, frequently volunteered at the school. She even picked my anxious, crying ass up from kindergarten early nearly every day for the first semester and would lie down with me every night when I was a child until I fell asleep (and that usually took several hours). That’s not even scratching the surface of all the things she’s done for me and my siblings. She was always the first person up and the last person to go to bed. Nothing about what she did, and continues to do to a lesser degree, is easy.

corihasastory

Domestic work is constantly undervalued even though every family depends on it. My grandmother on my mom’s side would go hungry just so her kids could eat - that is not nothing.

Also, if you would commend a man for being a stay at home dad and doing exactly what women have been doing for centuries, don’t pretend you care about women’s labor.

mathed-potatoes

As a mathematician and a mother, I can guarantee you taking care of a baby is significantly more difficult than upper division differential equations, and comparably difficult to graduate preliminary algebraic topology (assuming you’re taking it for credit and, like, trying really really hard to do well). It’s far from ‘sitting around doing nothing.’ I do not plan to quit my career and be a mom full-time, but I believe that those who do are making a difficult and selfless choice that benefits all of humankind by contributing healthy, attentively-raised people to its number.

todeuterostherion

I just imagine mathed-potatoes getting frustrated with her kid crying and screaming “WHY CANT YOU JUST BE LINEAR?”

mathed-potatoes

catchymemes

third-degree-math

for my linear algebra professor who knows about this blog now

rebrobindoesmath

straight from the prez

Differential Topology TA: Did you talk about manifolds with boundary in class?

Student: No.

TA: Well, a manifold with a boundary is like a manifold, but with a boundary.

bookishbumblebee

I love mathematics

physics Clock

pi is 3

I think you mean engineering clock

horriblebeing-deactivated201906

fun-o-physics

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha 😂😂😂😂

mathed-potatoes

If you have really strong opinions about historical mathematicians, then you’re my favorite kind of person. Bonus points if your opinions are controversial.

just-evo-now

#Galois sorta had it coming really

Fight me. At dawn. With pistols.

mathed-potatoes

Nah. You’re right, I shouldn’t have been chatting up your girl. (SEE, Evariste??? It’s that easy!)

just-evo-now

Oh… well. Guess I have no choice but to continue my brilliant mathematical career now. At least I’ll have time to properly explain my ideas, instead of forcing some friend to decipher my genius from a 60 page letter infodump.

mathed-potatoes

^^^ And perhaps meet a partner who is not romantically entangled, and who appreciates your brilliance AND who you are as a human being.

It’s all about making good choices, Galois.

todeuterostherion

Grigori Rasputin is really still alive and living as Grigori Perelman. *tinfoil hat*

mathani

Starting with numbers 1 to n, erase every second remaining one. Continue erasing by wrapping around to what is left. Which number remains?

This is the legendary Josephus problem with a sombre origin and a lovely solution: write n in binary, rotate digits left once and convert back. For example: 13 -> 1101(2) -> 1011(2) -> 11.