The Sylow theorems were originally proven so that Sylow would have good test questions for the abstract algebra class he was teaching.

#phdlife PhD Voice - Independently Run

If we could go back to the days when I only had to buy video games/apps/programs once instead of every month for the rest of my life that would be great

ring cam in communal spaces should be straight-up illegal

Hello male people attending conference talks given by younger female people. It is not appropriate for you to tell a younger female speaker what you would like them to wear next time they give a talk. Or anyone really.

I wish I got to take interesting courses and not courses required by the department to prove I “know things”

quanTA director Dr. Steven Rayan on the TEDx stage @USask speaking about the Quantum Magic all around us and the importance of Math and Art in making it happen! (Thanks to fellow speaker Arinjay Banerjee for the photo and for their exciting talk!) TEDxUniversityofSaskatchewan Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences

Does #ungrading disadvantage neurodivergent students? A 🧵 1/n

I just held my pen on my worksheet waiting for my line to straighten out like it does on tablet.

Any have tips about how to approach L^p spaces for someone who’s not analytically minded? Many thanks in advance

I’m supposed to be working but instead im reading about how fish may hold a mental image of themselves. Cleaner fish recognize self in a mirror via self-face recognition like humans | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

quanTA director Steven Rayan on the TEDx stage explaining Quantum Magic...watch the video below!

I learned last night that I’m getting too old for the mosh pit

Watching banks get bailed out for the second time in my adult life while also preparing to watch the Supreme Court tell us that cancelling a paltry $10k of student loan debt per borrower is "government overreach."

I love learning Fourier analysis because it means I get to give all my functions little \hats

Exciting news! Congrats to quanTA director Steven Rayan, whose joint paper on quantum matter in PNASNews was selected as a finalist for the Cozzarelli Prize (Physical/Mathematical Sciences Class) from more than 3200 articles! #NFRF, NSERC / CRSNG, and Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences-funded work

Some day I’ll cut back on my caffeine intake… but not today