What Kind Of Math Are You Studying?

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)

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.

theyre selling WHAT on ebay now

God Eidolon is really just a victim of the most ridiculous moral consequences ever. Like “Aha, you thought it was a good idea to neglect your own mental health in order to achieve a greater good and save other people’s lives? Well think again, because just maybe giant hell demons will emerge and destroy Japan.” Poor guy never had a chance. The guy got his brain connected directly to the “summon monsters that kill people” button with absolutely no warning that the button existed or that he could press it. Oh also if you reach a certain threshold of stress the button presses itself. Consequences of drinking alien brain goo i guess

REBLOG THIS POST IF YOU ARE A MATH ENJOYER

No it is not optional, I desperately need to follow y’all so that there is more math on my dashboard.

ok so this is probably just me being a self-obsessed heartless dumbass but is it me or is it that when you're bad at doing something people just tell you to try harder but if you're REALLY BAD at doing something they say "oh it's [mental illness]" and try to actually give you help. what if i do have a mild version of a thing why shouldnt i get help. at least some. just a crumbe of adderall and empathy plz

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

I remember being in elementary school and feeling a deep alienation at people’s just vicious rejection of mathematics, the reason being, like

It’s like. A classic approach to hypothetical communication with aliens that you start with the things you know you have in common and proceed from there. Mathematics is that.

Imagine you approach someone you don’t understand with a thing specifically designed to be something they and you can agree on as a starting point for communication and they just react with “yeah i hate this”

One of the worst parts about being a mathematician is that sometimes your working on a project that is relatively simple and your talking about it to a friend and in an effort to convey what your doing you simplify exactly what it is and somehow others end up more confused.

mathematical revelation so great i almost became religious