Datable math

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Related to yesterday's post, apparently Dr. Kiesenhofer is currently trending on reddit in r/interestingasfuck. Little Brother is a mathematician, so DD wanted his opinion on the mentioned non-linear partial differential equations (LB has strong opinions on math, e.g. that counting is not math), leading to the following text exchange.

Me quoting DD: Is it the good math or the bad math? Where is it on math scale 1-10?
When asked to clarify: How does he feel about it? Is it in his top 5? If it were a person, would he be interested in dating it, or would he prefer other math instead?
LB: It would not be a person, but rather a family of people, I think. Most of which I'd only know via a quick glance at their public facebook profile.
There are some of them that seem a bit weird (those that have strange obsessions with existence proofs of weirder and weirder equations), but there are those who do stuff I don't understand but sounds vaguely datable.
DD: That is beautiful and exactly what I wanted to hear. Very informative.

I then explained to LB that the interest came from the topic trending on reddit.
LB: ...what.
LB: Oh, cycling.
LB: Gimme a moment to see what she's doing
LB: Sample taken: 3 abstracts. Seems perfectly datable to me.
LB: There's geometry and funny groups, which is enough to make me happy.

So that was a great start of the day xD

Comments

[nnozomi]

I don't understand any of this, including whether your brother (theoretically) wants to date Anna Kiesenhofer or her mathematics or both, but I find it (and all the people involved) totally delightful.

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Pretty sure he's more interested in the math than in the person ^^

[primeideal]

I can relate! :D

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So tell me, what do you think is the most datable math? ^^

[primeideal]

Well look, there's a reason why they call it a thesis *proposal*... (my focus was in logic/model theory).

Though statistics is probably the most data-ble. >.>

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Heh xD
Undoubtedly.

(All I know is that mathematical logic is very different from normal everyday logic.)

[out_there]

LB has strong opinions on math, e.g. that counting is not math

That made me giggle, and gave me sudden flashbacks of a math teacher complaining that accounting wasn't real math.

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As he keeps saying, real mathematicians hate numbers xD

And I agree with that teacher, accounting is definitely not math.

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Yeah, you come talk to my net present value calculations and tell them they're not math. That is plenty math for me. 🥴

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I might have misunderstood what you mean - some areas of accounting use quite a bit of math (if you ask me, idk what LB would say since it involves numbers but he's a math snob ^^)

[out_there]

I was making a joke, but it didn't quite translate to text. ;)

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Gotcha - my phone didn't see what emoji was next to the text so I wasn't sure ^^