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No it is not optional, I desperately need to follow y’all so that there is more math on my dashboard.
Mathematics is taught very rigidly. When I'm independently working and studying math, it feels like art - like I'm making something and it tickles the creative side of my brain. In class it feels like the structured STEM course I initially signed up for.
It's a world of rules and structures people have carefully built over the millennium and you can add to it (if you can) or just walk around and observe and learn.
Analogously, learning mathematics, especially higher mathematics and even more so Algebra and Category Theory also feels like learning a new language. Working with it feels like writing poetry. Mathematics literature has a lot of the characteristic features of literature. There are many rules, but if you can break them, you are a mad genius!
I was talking to a professor and he told me about realising that he could read mathematics, granted it's not the same as picking up a story book, but there is this entire new world out there when you start reading mathematics. He also pulled up the linguistics definition of a language and said that perhaps mathematics is the only language with no exceptions in class once.
Actually this isn't how we count.
These are hand symbols (Hasta or Mudra) used in various different Indian dance forms. They have different names.
👍 is shikaram. ✌️ Is actually slightly different, the middle finger comes forward and the index goes backwards almost like you are trying to twist them. It is called Kartharimukam(scissors).
say what you will about the reserve bank of india these are some cracking coins
Consult with dark powers to raise Paul Erdős from the dead to co-author your paper.
Just learnt about this dude Galois, absolutely crazy. so basically, he:
- tries to get into "Ecole Polytechnique", the French school for science at the time, and fails
-publishes several papers on polynomials
-his father dies
-tries again (and fails) to get into the Ecole
-publishes several papers basically founding group theory
-attends a lesser school, gets kicked out and eventually arrested for political beliefs
-died in a duel shortly after he got out of prison
AT THE AGE OF 20
Prof after saying maybe we should be teaching these to first year undergrads, the calculation is really simple but they might struggle with understanding forms - stuck on said calculation for the next 40 minutes of class.
Why are mathematicians* so USELESS at simple arithmetic? You're telling me I possess knowledge that would get me hailed as a lord 2000 years ago, but if I had two bags of wheat in one hand and three in the other, I would say there's six bags? What the fuck
*it's me, I'm mathematicians