Once again I find myself urgently needing to advocate for using a slug as the official mascot for mathematics: math slug. We need something, and a slug is just like a mathematician: it works slowly and deliberately to produce a slimy residue of fascinating insights as it crawls across bountiful fields in order to feed on vibrant mathematical structures. I've made this banner image that you are free to embed into your papers in order to encourage the use of math slug more widely, and also to convince reviewers that your paper is good.

mathematicians which would you prefer:

pi is a constant equal to tau/2

d is a theoretical constant i just made up equal to 1/e

h is a theoretical imaginary constant i just made up equal to -i

i->-i is the only nontrivial homomorphism of the complex numbers so it basically changes nothing; that gets my vote.

you know the thing where nt people are like “autistic children are bad at Play because they just take toys and line them up :/” those fuckers. don’t understand. how satisfying and fun it is to put things in an order and then behold them

“Bad at play” not my fault you don’t know how fun lines are debra

You’ve heard of Fermat’s last theorem, now get ready for

Fermat’s little theorem

Look at how tiny it is!!!

welcome to my blog with endless mood swings

Let me seduce u with my knowledge on useless things

LGBettas back again for pride, new and improved!! Happy Pride month everyone 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💞

So, Boris Johnson wrote an essay in which he talked about the Sistine Chapel and then said : “There is nothing like it in Muslim art of that or any age, not just because it is beyond the technical accomplishment of Islamic art, but because it is so theologically offensive to Islam.”

BITCH

NOT TO MENTION the fact that the prohibition against direct images in Islam was actually the reason for the development of the incredible advances in higher mathematics of the Islamic Golden Age because they were required to create these structures. The Islamic World basically took the ban on images as a “hold my beer” thing and created an entire artistic culture based on mathematics and architecture where art and science fed into and glorified each other, 700 years before the Italian Renaissance.

In conclusion

i will say that islamic art drove me nuts as a kid because i did not have the math knowledge or capability to create such geometric patterns. it may have been the art of my people but by gOD it was difficult and unnecessarily difficult. however my pride in islamic art is neverending. it was frowned upon to be vain in the house, so artists would deck out the places of worship - but places of worship couldn’t be too garishly decorated, or it might detract from worship! the compromise? calm blues and greens, intricate details hidden into the complex patterns. carefully mapped out and planned patterns that were beyond complex and straight into deliberately confusing and practically impossible to replicate. not only that, but verses from the Quran were hidden along the walls, asking god for blessings and care.

muslim art is stunning and i’ll fight the bitch that says otherwise.

Also something underappreciated about the Islamic art is that not only is it geometrically incredible, but the geometry and structure of it has a purpose. In the niches and ceilings, the cascading ornamentation is used for acoustic purposes. In many of the mosques, they are so well laid out and designed that a single person standing on a specific spot can speak/sing/pray and be heard in every single part of the building.

On Saturday, just prior to the publishing of the “partygate” report- 3 Tory MPs, Nigel Adams, Nadine Dories and Boris Johnson himself all resigned.

Which honestly is nearly as telling as anything that will be in the report.

And will at least give Sunak a nice headache to deal with.

A long meme, but something that should be said

i think we could reform pangaea if we all tried hard enough

if we all just got in the water and pushed

Shortest math paper ever.

And with so much impact! It just disproved a widely accepted theorem from the year 1769 in 5 rows!!!

I'll never publish anything even remotely badass like this! But I want it so much!!!