mathstodon.xyz is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
A Mastodon instance for maths people. We have LaTeX rendering in the web interface!

Server stats:

3K
active users

Ray Lee

An to the math community, hi! I'm Ray. My formal education is in physics to the bachelor's level and I (usually) work as a software engineer.

More relevant for here, once upon a time I got the high score on the Putnam exam for my university, so somebody somewhere thought I knew how to do a little bit of math.

Nowadays I'm a mathematical tourist, enjoying taking the time to walk through the landscapes that I didn't pause to appreciate as an undergrad.

@4raylee "mathematical tourist" is a label I might adopt for myself 😛🧭

@btcprox @4raylee landscape and cartography metaphor are essential for navigating the mystical mazes of meaning

@btcprox The phrase is lifted directly from the book of the same name by Ivars Peterson, which I read as a kid. All credit to him :-)