math
Place to talk about anything related to mathematics
@monteluna
I've read some fun history books in Mathematics and physics, and we all have fun stats on lineage where you can pretty much trace most American students back to English and French mathematicians through their PhDs (Einstein Number, Newton Number, etc.)
While I haven't studied Ramanujan since I'm not super savvy in number theory, I'm definitely aware the man is truly bizarre. There was absolutely no formal mathematics schools around him and *all* historical records show he just woke up one day around 10 and just started to be a prodigy of mathematics.
Most of the mathematicians in Europe at least had some adjacency to mathematics and physics growing up, but this guy seriously had none of that.
Just started computing deep number theory in his head at 10 years old. Completely random.
Dune space guild type stuff.
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@osuji
As it turns out, you mostly can't even achieve meaningful consistent upward mobility via taking EV+ risks as well, especially if EV is arithmetic but returns are geometric.
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@osuji
I can't believe nobody recommended Steve Brunton's channel on YouTube, absolutely goated
https://youtube.com/@eigensteve?si=Y-KvK1wemUGmVUMD
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@eulerlagrange.eth
A really enjoyable and approachable playlist of lectures on the history of mathematics.
Norm does the hard work for you, just sit back and enjoy.
cc @aviationdoctor.eth
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL34B589BE3014EAEB&si=QJfNnvjAg2968Qer
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@early
mathematics has a euclidean side, rigid and formalist, and a quasi-empirical side, evolving and self-correcting. proofs and refutations are its heartbeat. each theorem is provisional; the living tension between conjecture and criticism keeps it growing toward truth
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@early
proof isn't a destination, it's motion. each line of reasoning is a structure we build, test, and sometimes dismantle. what looks solid in one frame can shift in the next. that's where discovery lives: not in certainty, but in what changes under pressure
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@fcago.eth
If you’re into math, it’s worth subscribing to notifications for this repo: https://github.com/ImperialCollegeLondon/FLT
It’s incredibly cool to see the formalization of the proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem, PR-by-PR
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@osuji
Probably the funniest thing you'll read today, quant larpers have found a new home in prediction markets 😂
https://x.com/Prithvir12/status/1968941775323590841
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@eulerlagrange.eth
It took me a second to realize what July meant and I feel stupid bc of it
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@eulerlagrange.eth
I can’t believe we’ve had thousands of years of math progress, and the way to make compute fast enough for LLMs is to let go of associativity 😭
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@tomconlan
Thinking of math things like machines helps my brain process them.
Should I post more notes on Lagrange interpolation?
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@osuji
Math words I like:
Affine
Degenerate
Jacobian
Lagrangian
Simplex
Eigendecomposition
Ergodic
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