Hii, recently I found out that I actually like math and it doesn’t have to be scary and it can actually be rly fun. I am very blob-no-thoughts and new to this but hopefully becoming less blob-no-thoughts lol

I have some stuff I wanna post but I don’t rly have a place to do it. I just post math-related stuff in the megathreads sometimes lol (btw rly appreciate everyone who replied to me about my dumb gender math thing in the trans megathread hehe, gave me a lot to think about, I actually have a half-finished formal proof based on something that one of you said lol) but it’s not a great place to do it tbh. Would be nice to have a comm for discussions that take place over longer time-periods

I have seen other people post math stuff (like our mothematician @[email protected] :3 ) but I feel like I have missed most of it due to it being posted in rly active unspecific-topic communities. I am also available to mod a math comm

Post under here if you would be interested. And ofc a math comm should include logic-posting or rly any formal-systems-posting imo :3

  • cosecantphi [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    Thanks for the link! I’m not yet very fluent with working in logical notation, but this looks like a handy reference for when I get better at it. I feel I learn best when reading more conversationally toned textbooks like Apostol’s, but having the same information fully compressed and indexed is extremely useful for getting multiple perspectives when I’m stuck.

    And I feel the same way you do about the way math is taught in high school with zero regard for rigor. It hardly gets into what math even really is, it’s an extremely misleading introduction to the topic that blindsides people who then go to college intending to pursue it further.