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really messes with my head. really obsessed with it. can’t wait to be a practicing physicist and mathematician. Its real and it isn’t real but it is totally real.
I am personally a huge fan of leibniz! he (debated) invented calculus. the invention of calculus (calculus not having been explained/not existing) is not something I can process. It not ’existing’ and then ‘existing’ the next day. It’s also really fun.
Sep 18, 2024
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i have gotten into real debates with my friends for this one. but math exists in the same space in my brain as like… zeus. i’m not denying the existence of the concepts of math, but i think math and numbers are just a way humans describe the patterns we see. like how ancients used mythology to describe the patterns of weather and time. if the aliens come, there’s no way they are using y = mx + b and the quadratic formula to label that concept. they’re calling it something else.
like obviously addition and subtraction is real, but we are just applying human explanations to something that already exists and calling it math. i guess it makes more sense to say math is just a mythology.
Nov 26, 2024
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introduced to the concept from this veritasium video. and holy shit it was like my brain exploded before my very eyes. infinite integers in strings of digits can be 0 or negative and all this counterintuitive shit. its like doing decimal mathematics but to the left of the decimal point instead.
astounding. and they proved fermat's last thm with it?????? insane
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I‘m wondering why we stopped having blogs and writing essays? I want to hear people’s thoughts. I want to share my thoughts! and I don’t want to see these thoughts in a few sentences on twitter or a short Instagram post. I need a 1000+ word essay with images, links, references, book recs, and everything else. I wanna know what’s going on inside your brain.
Feb 20, 2024
I need to share this list I made because it is such a blessing to me that I can just open youtube or vimeo and watch these lovely little movies. there’s a range of them like bergman, tarkovsky, polish films, art-house, weird matthew gray gubler short, experimental horror, short films from the 20’s. how fun.
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