Post #1885842
2024-10-04 20:47 UTC
Replies (15)
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@masonporter@mastodon.social 2024-10-04 20:50
@ProfKinyon@mathstodon.xyz Paradise awaits.
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@weekend_editor@mathstodon.xyz 2024-10-04 22:57
@ProfKinyon@mathstodon.xyz Would kinda prefer Statius guiding us through Purgatory, or better yet Beatrice guiding us through Paradiso.
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@susankayequinn@wandering.shop 2024-10-04 23:11
@ProfKinyon@mathstodon.xyz sharing this with my physics grad student kiddo
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@johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz 2024-10-05 05:49
@ProfKinyon@mathstodon.xyz "I found myself within a forest dark, For the straightforward pathway had been lost."
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@mb21@hachyderm.io 2024-10-05 08:20
@ProfKinyon@mathstodon.xyz yeah, remember my “Analysis I” lecturer being like “now, we’d like to proof that…” and I’m like “whoever that we is, it doesn’t include me!”
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@gary_alderson@infosec.exchange 2024-10-05 09:33
@ProfKinyon@mathstodon.xyz ricky loves ricky
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@euneuber@graz.social 2024-10-05 09:33
@ProfKinyon@mathstodon.xyz as one can easily see...
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@nex@chaos.social 2024-10-05 10:48
@ProfKinyon@mathstodon.xyz Video game streamers do this and I fucking hate it. Some of them even show a live picture-in-picture of their cat, yet they still haven't figured out what academia has known for ages …
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@blind_mapmaker@eldritch.cafe 2024-10-05 12:42
@ProfKinyon@mathstodon.xyz Did you the know of the Poul Anderson Novel 'Operation Chaos' in which the protagonists are led through a literal non-Euclidean version of hell by the spirits of the mathematicians Bolyai and Lobachevsky?
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@mds2@arktos.social 2024-10-05 18:39
@ProfKinyon@mathstodon.xyz Huh, I always thought of this usage of "we" being akin to how "you" and "they" can be either singular or plural, while I, he, she, it, and thou are strictly singular.
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@soaproot@sfba.social 2024-10-05 20:42
@ProfKinyon@mathstodon.xyz What are you saying about my proofs?
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@leadegroot@bne.social 2024-10-06 01:25
@ProfKinyon@mathstodon.xyz I’ve always interpreted that style of writing like: ‘The author sternly looks the reader in the eye and says “Doctor Black and I have concluded…”’
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@level98@mastodon.social 2024-10-06 10:33
@ProfKinyon@mathstodon.xyz Wiles proof of Fermat's Last Theorem representing all nine circles?
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@Alessandro_DellaCorte@mathstodon.xyz 2026-05-22 13:22
@ProfKinyon@mathstodon.xyz "It is trivially seen that..." is the new "Non ragioniam di lor, ma guarda e passa" 😏
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@DonJon111@mastodon.social 2026-06-03 16:02
@ProfKinyon@mathstodon.xyz We going on this journey together.