Lissajous curves 😍
I remember learning about them fo the first time and thinking they were useless pretty curves, oh how wrong I was!
Now, to me they highlight the importance of resonances on dynamical systems and join number theory with differential equations while being hella cute
I love them
Voyager’s Jupiter and Io
“You ruin your life by desensitizing yourself. We are all afraid to say too much, to feel too deeply, to let people know what they mean to us. Caring is not synonymous with crazy. Expressing to someone how special they are to you will make you vulnerable. There is no denying that. However, that is nothing to be ashamed of. There is something breathtakingly beautiful in the moments of smaller magic that occur when you strip down and are honest with those who are important to you. Let that girl know that she inspires you. Tell your mother you love her in front of your friends. Express, express, express. Open yourself up, do not harden yourself to the world, and be bold in who, and how, you love. There is courage in that.”
— Biance Sparacino (How To Ruin Your Life Without Even Noticing That You Are)
If u don’t fuck a special relativity then we can’t be friends
Yesterday was hard.
I'm in some courses all this week, and I don't understand anything that 3 of the 4 speakers say. And I've just met the new PhD student of the department, and he's really smart and he's understanding most of the things. And on top of that my advisor is asking me to finish a big amount of writing. I feel really stupid and discouraged.
So, list of positive things to take into account this week:
- All of the courses are about PDEs and not Dynamical systems (which is my research topic). It's normal to not understand most of them.
- It is a great opportunity to see how people of other topics work, and what are they interests. You don't need to understand everything perfectly. Let go and enjoy.
- I learned a lot from yesterday's poster session, and from other students.
- Next year I would have a very smart PhD partner from who I could learn a lot.
- I am a slow-learner when understanding new topics, and that is okay. I could have other qualities that make me a good mathematician.
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Small and angry.PhD student. Mathematics. Slow person. Side blog, follow with @talrg.
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