idk tbh but the book I'm referencing is one I've read recently so it was fresh in my mind, I'm no Mathlete









And the GOAT Female Mathematician:

it is impossible to be sad in the presence of dolphins.

But Kony will be so proud his son isn't doing drugs, drinking, so he'd gladly put a Mathlete button on him.

japan doesnt agree

i make a joke about this approx once every 6 months on twitter.

This is a perspective that I can agree with

Terra Fermat

No, but for my number theory class in college I learned to prove Fermat's Last Theorem by infinite descent.

After experiencing that I gotta say that infinite descent is some badass ****.

it's only one town in japan really that goes for the dolphins i think. The rest of japan is more about the minke, and jellyfish, and god knows what else.

There is a genuine cultural difference between the uk, where if we see some weird creature we tend to go 'uggh' and try to get away from it, and Japan, where the first instinct appears to be to try to decide whether it would be tastier fried or boiled.

I've got a math degree baby.

Want to prove some results by infinite descent?

indescent proposal

Hey I just met you,
I've got a math degree baby,
here's some numbers,
prove by infinite descent maybe?

lol. nice try trying to imply that I'm all caught up in emotion typing frantically at my computer because omg dean is being a sexist. I am plenty calm. Surprisingly, this isn't the first time I've faced this argument. The male population have had a lot of people tell them that they are superior to women because they don't feel extreme emotion and they enjoy telling me this.

My underlying assumption is that emotion has a biological basis in both genders, the emotions they cause are different because there are different evolutionary roles in them (i.e, men are dominant, therefore feel competitive, women are the ones actually doing the reproducing so need prodding into spreading their legs).

I personally don't believe that men are innately more logical than women. There's like, many thousands of years of history when 99% of women were told they couldn't do anything more than cook and reproduce. There's still a lot of stigma around that women can't amount to more than men, and that probably has an underlying affect on womens abilities psychologically.

All the women in history who have managed to achieve something are those that are from affluent families with either indulgent fathers or understanding husbands. Considering that that is actually a really small % of the population of any one time, I consider it a miracle that there were that many women who were good at specialized subjects, whatever subjects they were.

There's, at most, 100 years of history in our countries where women have actually had equal opportunities in terms of education. That's a ridicuously short amount of time. That's like my great grandmothers who couldn't do it. And if they got trained in the 10s (and not many were), then they'd only have been really at the peak of their career maybe 30 years later. Even when my mother was at university she was way way in the minority of gender, and that was in the 60s.

Currently, way over half of the trainee doctors in the UK are female, and those places are damn competitive. My math course is one of the best in the country and it's about 50/50. Even engineering has a 50/50 male/female Give women another 100 years and I think the stigma that women are significantly less logical than men would be greatly reduced, and it'd be a lot more even.

Calm down TL.

More like Time(ofthemonth)Lady amirite?

Jfc, I only just learned what the whole 'took an arrow to the knee' gag is about, don't make me learn another meme.

eh

not aware of any of my co-workers having beaten **** up, and I don't really think most people think it would be ok.

I nearly stole a baby

Pitt was 40/60 in math.
Bio was 65/35 about for women actually.
CS and engineering still blow donkey **** for equal representation though

i sort of consider all of Dean's posts to be trolls

I mean, i think he means them seriously but I take them as trolls because it makes them more enjoyable to read.

wait a couple years until you are sure you are ready, then steal a baby.

fistbump

i was quite a nerd. and i loved that button.

now that i think about it - i may actually still have that button. it would take weeks of searching tho. if i ever find it, i'll just post a pic with no context.


also, when i bragged about my boy winning a math competition yesterday, there were 5 kids on stage. he was the only boy.

I still have managed to avoid this song

Alas, the same cannot be said for Cheryl Coles new song. that **** is infectious