Kim Reece @kimreece@mathstodon.xyz

I'll be cleaning this up over the weeks to come, but in addition to looking for standard funding sources, I'm opening the tip jar.

https://www.ko-fi.com/feonixrift
https://www.patreon.com/feonixrift

I'm a math grad student, persistently cashflow-negative, trying to hold up the finances through my masters thesis before I can get into a phd (hence paid) position.

I plan to be more vocal with what I do, and contribute in other ways, but... Patronage of the sciences is a thing, right?

Ok, here's the original... https://twitter.com/andyweirauthor/status/1246472992491630592

So, that 1,i,0 triangle that's going around, that I forgot to save an image of...

It's fine if you just accept that you're outside a Euclidean context. Take the region of the complex plane around 0, map the unit circle onto a single point to form a sphere; now a triangle (via great circles on that sphere) with smaller than magnitude 1 sides looks triangular, with a right angle where you expect, but the third side length reaches 0 as you increase the other two to 1 and i respectively.

Slowly pulling homelife together well enough to return to a decent pace of work - if I can even remember how any of what I was working on went. Fortunately this should make it easier to detect points of insufficient explanation in my previous draft?

https://twitter.com/funnymaths/status/1244798299649032198/photo/1

math writing humor

Someday, when I'm writing an application for a lecturer position, I will be asked why I want to teach math. And I'll have to say I had the usual reasons, but that was before innumeracy literally killed millions of people while I was in graduate school. It'd be hard to see that and not take as hard a line of immunization against untrained mathematical thought as against the virus that reveled in it.

https://twitter.com/SimonDeDeo/status/1243230572203462656

'New work on the conceptual structure of mathematics, from Euclid to the Four Color Theorem, based on a quantitative analysis of human and @CoqLang
proofs.'

I look forward to seeing the preprint on this.

❤️ to everyone having a hard time focusing, finding themselves conducting a large amount of impromptu math communication, and discovering just how hard it is to express what we thought were basic concepts.

still out here; hard to find the concentration to write.

I can't help but keep thinking...

... what if I never get to finish this?
... what if my prof gets sick before I finish this?
... or I get sick?

When I want to just stare at twitter in abject horror, that brings me back to the LaTeX editor.

Working on revisions... :) Almost didn't think I'd ever get to say that.

Good research meetings do happen. :) There's light at the end of the tunnel, and with a little pressure folks will help you see it.