Math is cool, post some math here

Also it's inherently leftist due to free sharing of knowledge therefore it's relevant

  • Katieushka [they/them,she/her]
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    4 years ago

    god i love math why am i so alone in this. have some math links i found cool lately.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDfzCIWpS7Q

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mH0oCDa74tE

    https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZHQObOWTQDNPOjrT6KVlfJuKtYTftqH6

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQo_S3yNa2w

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hjRvZYkAgA

    https://www.youtube.com/user/standupmaths/videos this channel is nice but i cant point out any tremendous videos that tower over the rest.

    are physics videos also allowed?

    https://www.youtube.com/user/TheScienceAsylum this whole channel is amazing, if not a bit childish and cringe, but the guy really knows what he's talking about. he has great videos about relativity and quantum and electromagnetism.

    https://www.youtube.com/user/EugeneKhutoryansky this channel also has a similiar deal, it's absolutelyfucking great, but i would never show it to my mom. other than that incredible, indepth explanations that tell you what you need to know.

    • lutteurdeclasse [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      I'm a math nerd and love how these types of video make hyper complex mathematical concepts easy to grasp . However I'm sometimes complexed because math is so much more than just visualizing shapes and being like "wow that's cool I guess" because true mathematical understanding of things like topology and geometry is enlightening and speaks not the description of material objects but to concepts inherent to reality itself (i.e. aliens do the same math). Hope this makes sense .

      • Katieushka [they/them,she/her]
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        4 years ago

        i think this is more philosophy, but leibniz did talk about this phenomenon, that no matter the laws of the universe, no matter our perceptions, no matter what exists, math remains correct. you could have a universe with no time and no space and no matter in it that works completely differently, and integral calculus would still exist, because it is not bound to worldly things. which is why we study 4d geometry and unapplicable pure math, because they have no reason to not exist.

    • Liberalism [he/him,they/them]
      hexagon
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      4 years ago

      Out of the 5 videos you sent, I had already watched all of them

      So I guess we just have identical Youtube habits lmao

  • yaboi [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    "How is mathematics political?" I say as I solve differential equations plotting trajectories for ballistic missiles

  • the_river_cass [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    been working through algebraic topology as I have time and omg it's been a ride. I've always made these weird spatial arguments in my head that I'd then have to translate into something sensible to other people and this has been an experience in learning how those arguments actually function, why they're right so often, and super helpful because now I can tell when I'm wrong more easily.

    I love math. if we lived under socialism, I'd probably spend all my time in school learning weird and pointless corners of mathematics.

    • lutteurdeclasse [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Yeah I had a class about it last year and it's so mindblowingly cool, regarding socialism the government already pays me to do math so that's ok I guess

  • HighestDifficulty [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    There's an infinite amount of numbers between 0 and 1. If you add them together you get a number greater than 1.

  • HalfeMoon [they/them,she/her]
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    4 years ago

    Counterpoint: math is bad because the term "unique affine subspace" just showed up on my midterm which has never been mentioned before.

  • POKEMONGOTOTHEGULAG [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    I tried my chance at computational math at the university but I'm too much of a fuckup so I'm doing electrical engineering at dumb girl school. I did really enjoy doing it though while it lasted.

  • Enzo [he/him,use name]
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    4 years ago

    so infinity + 1 equals infinity and infinity - infinity is 0 so what is (infinity +1) - infinity?

    • Liberalism [he/him,they/them]
      hexagon
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      4 years ago

      Depends what you mean by infinity. If you're working in the extended real numbers, which is just all the regular numbers plus a +infinity that's greater than all of them and a -infinity that's less than all of them, then +infinity + 1 = +infinity, but +infinity - +infinity is undefined, not 0.

      Meaning (infinity +1) - infinity is also undefined.