The more math research I do the more I realize it’s just about oscillating between these two states

Geometry students 🤝1st graders “The book was good but it needed more pictures”

Lmao I’m doing this number theory proof and the primes aren’t quite where I want them and I’m realizing I can just…move the primes. (Specifically, I can take a translation)

Question for mathematicians: how many hours a day do you spend on research during periods of time when you have no other major work commitments (e.g. teaching)? Does the answer change on weekends?

I think the arxiv could really benefit from an AO3-style tagging system

Learning about how if you went for a walk in hyperbolic space you’d feel your body being stretched/squished horizontally whenever you sped up or slowed down and if you went fast enough you could be literally torn apart

🐀-invariant

This is a cry for help they won’t let me out of the analysis room

Me, an additive combinatorist, realizing I can fix my broken proof if I just make one of the constants really stupidly big

Any day I get to use the Chinese Remainder Theorem is a good day ☺️

I need to learn about the representation theory of GL(n,C) for a research project but have almost no rep theory background; could I ask for recommendations for books on rep theory of algebraic groups that would be beginner-accessible?

Why did the hyperbolic geodesics keep intersecting? Because they wouldn’t let bigons be bigons 😂😂🤣😂

Them: explain abstract cohomology Me:

In Bristol for Young Geometric Group Theory 2024! Really enjoying it so far.

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YALL I NEEDED A SPECIFIC TECHNICAL RESULT FOR THE PAPER I’M WORKING ON SO I LOOKED IT UP AND SOMEONE PUBLISHED IT LITERALLY LESS THAN SIX MONTHS AGO