I went back to school to study advanced math a couple years ago and it was a blast. Math as an adult is great.
I was just thinking the other day I should check out graph theory
I’ve been wanting to get into category theory lately. It genuinely sounds super fun
Just take the direct limit of the pullback over the wreath product of the sheaves
– statement dreamed up by the utterly Deranged
they have played us for absolute fools
That was my niche in grad school. I authored a paper proving that the CW-complexes in the category of small categories under the Joyal-Tierney model structure are exactly the groupoids. I never came up with a reason why anyone should care, but at least it was fun.
That looks like gobbledygook to me, and I wanna get all up in dat good good gook.
I hear königsberg is lovely this time of year.
Walking the bridges eventually gets repetitive tho
I’d prefer not to take the same bridge twice tho
I know a guy. His family keeps Owls.
He can destroy those bridges for you
That’s so weird, I was just thinking the other day how much I love squeezing lemons directly into my eyes.
Stop being edgy.
It was actually fun to do khan academy high school math on my own terms
I was going to say something similar. When there’s no ‘pressure’ and you just get to learn it without being tested on it, and potentially have negative outcomes if you do poorly on that testing, then it’s just a neat fact much like any science meme being shared.
I think I might do that too in the future. Tried it before but I wasn’t in the right head space back then.
Ngl, I’ve been getting that a bit recently despite those classes being super stressful. There are a few classes, not just math, that I feel like I could gain a lot more out of by retaking them now with a couple years in the field behind me. Not that I did poorly in those classes, I did very well, but a lot of that stuff was just too abstract to me at the time to stick beyond the next exam.
I sometimes wish I could retake my school math classes. I was never good at math but I feel like now that I have seen some practical applications for stuff that we were force fed back them, I could learn it much better.
What practical applications?
I experienced this while assisting someone with their homework. It’s how I ended up in another country, earning a post-graduate degree, at forty. And brain was right, it WAS fun!
Something computation heavy? Yeah no that sounds exhausting. Something proof heavy? Mmm, don’t mind if I do.
Took me a moment to realize he didn’t grab a pink frog outta nowhere to yell at…
Oh good, you see them too
I got as far as Calculus III and Linear Algebra in college. Nowadays I’m sure I could not do a derivation or an integration to save my fucking life and when I see a matrix my brain thinks “wow, numbers in a grid!”
When you get older you learn math with purpose can be really fun.
I wrote a computer game (including the engine), and matrix / vector math plays a key role in movement and rendering. Definitely needed some refreshers, but the good thing is it is not abstract anymore like it was in school, all math things are directly relevant to in-game objects and mechanics.
Is this computer game available? I’d like to try it out
Of course! Dark Streets on Lexaloffle
Plays in browser, you can see the code right there too, or LMK if you want a more-commented version (had to remove comments to save space)
or gen and upper division chem, and biochem. both are very unpleasant.
Ouch!
“Fun” is really not the right word. Even if you will like doing that course, “fun” is really not the right word.
It can be. Solving some equations feels a lot like manipulating a Rubik’s cube, and people can find those fun, right?
I would love to take a class on functional analysis
“I bet I’d be better at studying now with my adult brain as I was back then”
lol no
Honestly, if you audit the class without the pressure of the grade, it probably WOULD be fun. The stress usually comes from needing a good GPA etc
A class of students doing that would be a million times more fun for the professors too. Acadamia would be so much better if education were its primary purpose.
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