Rho-of-cabbage - Rho Of Cabbage

at some point you have to realize that you actually have to read to understand the nuance of anything. we as a society are obsessed with summarization, likely as a result of the speed demanded by capital. from headlines to social media (twitter being especially egregious with the character limit), people take in fragments of knowledge and run with them, twisting their meaning into a kaleidoscope that dilutes the message into nothing. yes, brevity is good, but sometimes the message, even when communicated with utmost brevity, requires a 300 page book. sorry.

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Math enjoyers do not DNI. If you like math you are required to interact with me.

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Some days, my problems can be resolved by a simple :%s/<.\{-}>//g

(that’s the vim command that removes html and leaves behind the unformatted text).

Also, piratesexmachine420, you have an excellent pfp. Triangles are good.

This meeting could've been an elaborate and transfixingly beautiful flag semaphore transmission.

I didn't expect to be so annoyed by this take.

It's a reasonable take.

But also the point of mathematics is the exploration of beautiful truths, and the more we lose sight of that, the worse off we are.

Sure we have pedantry to back up, prove, and clarify our beautiful observations, but the observing is the fun part.

(Just read some of and highly recommend Martin Weissman's "An Illustrated Theory of Numbers" and holy cow is it beautiful)

Potentially a hot take but the whole point of mathematics, especially pure mathematics is to be pedantic. We want to be sure what we're doing makes logical sense.

Sure you have experiments to back up your flimsy mathematical arguements but we care about details because that's what maths is.