Omg That Sounds So Cool

Julie D’Aubigny was a 17th-century bisexual French opera singer and fencing master who killed or wounded at least ten men in life-or-death duels, performed nightly shows on the biggest and most highly-respected opera stage in the world, and once took the Holy Orders just so that she could sneak into a convent and shag a nun.

(via Feminism)

Please fund my research in finding fewer applications of mathematics. I'm going to start my project with trying to find fewer uses of trigonometry, so that ideally we can eliminate the need for remembering trigonometric identities. Then I'm going to move on to researching fewer uses for integration by parts, because that tends to get real tedious real fast. With your unending financial support, I believe I can return mathematics to the purity and simplicity it has always yearned for.

Venn diagrams that have a number of sets that AREN'T prime numbers (except 1, but it's trivial) cannot be rotationally symmetrical, so here are a couple real 6-set venn diagrams.

Someone PLEASE use one of these to make a diagram. I'm begging. i need to see it with my own eyes.

today I learned that for a surface with boundary, which I believe we can say a straw is, the genus is equal to that of a 2-manifold obtained from attaching disks to the boundary. hence the straw has genus equal to that of a 2-sphere, which is 0, therefore a straw has 0 holes

also a straw is not homotopic to a torus I think, but rather to S¹, as it's a product of S¹ and a closed interval, which is contractible. a torus has the fundamental group S¹×S¹, thus they cannot be homotopy equivalent. buuut that requires the straw to be infinitely thin so maybe I'm too idealistic for this claim to hold and it is in fact equivalent to a torus

lmao I love math but I can't stop laughing at the fact that it took me two years of university to be able to have this discussion

I’m really into internet discourse but only pointless and stupid internet discourse like how many holes there are in a straw (it’s 2)

Nothing but respect for this mathematician's webpage

parents got a new cat they named lord montague and this morning i heard my dad in the other room say "i would have to advise against that decision, my lord" followed by a crashing sound

i've been working on it with my boyfriend for a while now and–

our first video is up!

i hope you enjoy it and subscribe to our channel

https://youtu.be/-X2BBtRI1Xw

have you ever wished for an interactive phase plot of polynomials in the complex plane?

one that you could use even from your phone?

then good news!

[neocities]

may I add some very red trains

red inside as well

If anyone wondered what do I mean when I'm saying our trains are "very green":

And yep inside they are also green:

(Usually not that nice looking though)

The ones in my area usually look like this ↑

(all pics are from Google images lol)

being a humanities major who’s friends with stem majors is so funny because you’ll ask your friends what they’re doing today and they’re like “UGH it’s so stressful i have to stabilize the reactor core for my nuclear power midterm and then i have to build the supercomputer from i have no mouth yet i must scream for my electrical engineering homework :/ what about you” and you’re like “oh well i have to read a fun little book and write an essay about gender.” and they still think you have it worse