Reverse Gaslighting Where I Pretend To Know Exactly What You Are Talking About

The beautiful modernism of Oliver Byrne’s, The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid, 1847

omg I want this so much, I could share my ideas and things I learned

I think tumblr should let us post diagrammes and graphs and tables. We can be trusted with math. I promiss.

Balance

Complex Number Grapher

https://jutanium.github.io/ComplexNumberGrapher/

This grapher is really fun to play around with! 

A normal function takes in a number, x, and outputs another number, y. But a complex function takes in a complex point on a plane (a+bi) and outputs another complex point. Without 4 dimensions, it would be impossible to graph a complex function :(

The creator of this project instead uses complex domain coloring which they explain much better than I have here so you should 100% go and check it out!

Look at this cool function I got:

f(z)=(sin(z^3))^((cos(z))/2)

doing (basic) algebraic topology in this context feels like going to that jungle and saying you know what bring this thing down we are building a city here. everything is a CW complex, everything is euclidean, and compact or paracompact if it must, all of this so that we can forget about sidestepping around topology and do algebra in peace lmao

Measure theory and topology both have this great flavor where you give the most minimal possible definition for the thing you want and then you get all the nice properties, except no, your definition is soft enough to allow crazy nonsense counterexamples hiding behind everything that you have to carefully sidestep around. It's like doing math in a jungle

remember if you ever want to read an article for free and the subscription ad prevents you from reading the entire article DO NOT

Reload it and immediately turn off your Internet access (data/WiFi if you are using a phone)

Reload it and click the 'X' next to the return icon on the top left of your window (if you are on desktop)

Reload the page, type 'Ctrl+ A' and 'Ctrl+ C' and paste everything onto an open document

this has worked for me 97ish % everytime hope this works for u too

Square is a rhombus, regular hexagon can be tessellated with three equal rhombuses, and every regular polygon with even number of sides can be rhombi-tessellated.

uhh probably the worst math feeling is when you're so excited about proving something and you talk about it to someone who does math with you and they say oh but it's trivial

lmao I just imagined a situation in which someone wrote me a message about math (is math a fandom?) and after realizing that I am an adult decided that talking to me about math is suddenly dangerous, kinda funny

on a serious note, I don't have anything to add, the responses above do a very good job at showing why this is an insane thing to expect from people

@ my fellow adults who use tumblr a lot:

can you PLEASE put your age in your about/sidebar and make sure it’s accessible on mobile. imo if you’re an adult esp 20+ it’s a little weird that you wouldn’t have your age readily available on your blog. if you’re reading this now and you don’t have your age listed, please rectify that. i feel like teenagers get lured into talking to adults in fandom/lgbt spaces that they may not have intentionally sought out because they think they’re talking to other teenagers, and this can lead to a lot of other – much more insidious –problems