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schneefink ([personal profile] schneefink) wrote2021-07-28 08:12 am
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Datable math

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
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[personal profile] nnozomi 2021-07-28 07:02 am (UTC)(link)
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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[personal profile] primeideal 2021-07-28 08:10 pm (UTC)(link)
I can relate! :D
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[personal profile] primeideal 2021-07-29 01:34 am (UTC)(link)
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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[personal profile] out_there 2021-07-28 07:34 am (UTC)(link)
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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[personal profile] out_there 2021-07-28 10:59 pm (UTC)(link)
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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[personal profile] out_there 2021-07-29 08:17 am (UTC)(link)

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