God Eidolon Is Really Just A Victim Of The Most Ridiculous Moral Consequences Ever. Like “Aha, You

mathematical revelation so great i almost became religious

oh youre a math phd? Name 5 equations

1. The functional equation for the completed L-function associated with a modular form.

2. The Analytic Class Number Formula

3. 196883 + 1 = 196884

4. Chinese Remainder Theorem (gives an “equality” of rings)

5. Prime Number Theorem (gives an asymptotic equality of two functions)

(Can you tell what kind of mathematician I am from this? I feel like it’s pretty obvious lmao)

Heartbreaking! The obvious letter to use for this variable isn't available because you already used it for something else!

A lot of people absolutely fail to distinguish between 'I hate this because I was taught this badly' and 'I hate this because this thing is inherently bad', and I hate it.

you know I absolutely agree with the fact that the education system is fucked and traumatises students. I absolutely agree with the fact classes like english and maths and history can be piss boring and teach you nothing of worth and could be a trigger depending on how hellish of a teacher you were given.

Hell, the only reason I love maths is because I primarily engaged with it outside of class and found it fun on my own terms. I'm still bitter towards my history teachers for having clear favourites and not engaging half the class.

but like. if you're railing against the *subjects* themselves, refusing to learn any of the basics as an adult, and bringing up how much you hate them at every opportunity? At some point that becomes a problem you have to deal with yourself.

and if you don't, you're going to be the reason this happens again for the next generation.

The cool thing about category theory is that a lot of times I can forget a definition, just think for a minute about what it "should be", and then when I go and look it up I'm right. I've experienced this to a lesser degree in other areas of math but in category theory it seems to come particularly easily.

i hate when i browse math-related tags on this site and half the posts are people ranting about how much they hate her. why are you so mean to my wife

I've been pulled into watching the Gotham Chess recaps of the International Chess Championship and here are my thoughts:

This would make a great pro wrestling story

(hearing him actually recap a chess strategy) oh my god i never want to be good at chess

BASELESS ACCUSATION CHEATING GUY?????

ANAL BEADS CHEATING GUY???????????

Ding nooooooo you can do it I believe in you (I'm kinda cheering for both of them but I'm tickled by the concept of "incumbent champ who is somehow the neurotic underdog")

I REALLY never want to be good at chess

probably the sickos on Ao3 have written rpf about this (they have)

Getting a lot of: “No but like you don’t get it math is stupid and useless and reading books is actually morally good… and teaches us about the world around us and explains how it works which stupid math doesn’t do why should I learn calculus I would rather shame people into reading Jane Eyre than open a math book or website”

And like … out of the millions of things you can do with basic and foundational math … that shows you how the world works … Calculus, as one example, can literally explain to you why leaves grow at the angle they grow … there is little more beautiful than being able to calculate exactly how nature works and understand why.

There is beauty in every subject … and few other subjects encapsulate ways to understand your surroundings like math.

If you are comfortable shaming people for not reading fiction books because you personally are good at reading them, but uncomfortable being shamed for not doing mathematics consider you are in the exact same boat as people who are afraid to read fiction books because they don’t see why it is important to do so and are unwilling to begin.

You are the people you hate.

when you are a child, you solve equations. we grown-ups have to solve inequalities.

I hate you shipping discourse I hate you unnecessarily aggressive DNI banners I hate you dehumanization of those you disagree with I hate you harassment over ships or favorite characters I hate you purposeful lack of nuance I hate you false equivalencies I hate you policing how people engage in fandom I hate you actively trying to make fandom spaces hostile I hate you refusal to filter your feed I hate you making it everyone else’s problem