Something about maths that'll never not amaze me is how sometimes you'll read a certain topic and it'll be kinda out of reach, like you kinda get the idea but the details go over your head. But then a few months later you'll come back to it and somehow it makes so much more sense. Maybe it's cause you've realised something that makes it click or sometimes you'll have learnt other things and it'll put it in a new perspective. And it's honestly one of the best feelings

what are we doing

we need to talk abt the power scaling problem in playing pretend :/

you cant just be invincible i GOT you i fucking got yoiu with my powers ok??????

Was anyone gonna tell me we found who Cleo was??? The integration genius on math stack exchange from 10 years ago?

TLDR it was a professor from Uzbekistan named Viktor Reshetnikov who did it because he wanted people to be more interested in the niche problems people would post on there. Cleo wasn’t even his only account, he was doing multiple people

Fixed, thanks for pointing that out. I also thought that was weird! So far the two takes on this post have been either

“This guys a genius for running all these accounts! It’s a great way to generate mathematical interest.”

Or

“Wait, so he’d just answer his own questions on an alternate account? That’s obnoxious as hell”

Tbh I see where both are coming from but I think it’s something in the middle. Call me the nuancer or whatever

I should get a laptop sticker that says “I ≱3 math jokes”

covered the dang dog like it’s an enchilada

This is what Willem Defoe was writing on his detective pad

Limerick Template

There once was a [PERSON] from [PLACE] Whose [BODY PART] was [SPECIAL CASE] When [EVENT] would occur It would cause [HIM OR HER] To [BREAK A LAW OF TIME AND SPACE]

found out last night about the cricket player Don Bradman, whose batting average of 99.94% is “the greatest achievement by any sportsman in any major sport”, nearly a full 40 points above the second best player. Apparently they had to invent a whole new type of defense to try and deal with this dude.

I have no idea how cricket works but it’s hilarious that the best sportsman who ever lived chose to play British baseball of all things.

I tried understanding the rules for cricket purely to better comprehend how someone could be so almost supernaturally dominant like

“average person is decent at cricket” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person is terrible at cricket. Bradman Don, who lives in Australia & bats over 99 each test day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

why does tumblr have reels now

why does every app need to have a tiktok feature

I dont come to tumblr for videos, I come to tumblr to see my mutuals post gay shit from things I don't even care about

If I were writing a math textbook I’d have a section in the beginning called “A Note on Notation” where I introduce all the notation Im using. And everyone would want to fuck me sooooo bad

Kinda like me, except everyone already feels that way about me. They are attracted to my gnomish aura.

Hey. What

Mouse MD

He needs mouse bites to live

Mouse MD!

You can solve any equation by just multiplying both sides by 0 but apparently "that's just ignoring the problem" and "not actually solving it." They're just scared of the truth.

In my introductory proofs class there was a guy who genuinely thought this. He would get to a technically correct equation through any means necessary then say he was done. So when the professor did this, multiplied everything by zero to show what he was doing wrong, he was like “well how do we decide when to stop”. His point was all the steps are arbitrary as long as they’re logical, and it’s up to human interpretation whether the proof is correct or not. Which is just not true. He couldn’t grasp that proofs do have a set end goal and something we need to show, only that every step taken needed to make Logical Sense. Professor wasted a whole office hours trying to make him get it, and he still wouldn’t. Granted he passed the class, and had crazy intuition for how combinatorics worked to the point he intuited the formula for n choose k, so who am I to judge.