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egg @eggular.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Love how this is literally so wrong (d=6 is the critical dimension.... not well-understood lol)

egg @eggular.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

while searching for Menshikov's paper "Coincidence of critical points in percolation problems", AI Overview provided one of the worst explanations of universality I've ever seen. literally so wrong (p_c is not universal lmao)

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egg @eggular.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

this is not how you state theorems, you don't state the assumptions inline way above and say "f will be x" and then write sentences starting (and ending) with mathematical notation saying things like N_p \geq 2

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egg @eggular.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

what the hell is the ultimate Cauchy theorem

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egg @eggular.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

for example, he proves this proposition with strong assumptions and a weak conclusion, while a much stronger statement is true (for principal value sums) for arbitrary analytic f with |zf(z)| = O(1). Then he assigns a bunch of sum problems that are unsolvable with the weak version given in the book

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egg @eggular.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

typesetting is nightmarish, everything is some long in-line derivation which randomly introduces 3 or 4 important definitions, generally not in their own environment, which is then used 4 or 5 pages later. exercises in chapter 11 end up using some random prop in chap 6

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egg @eggular.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Why not just say branch...

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egg @eggular.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

I honestly do so much math on WhatsApp. Overleaf I associate with misery, Discord likewise. Yet I love talking to my friends about math on WhatsApp... If every messaging service had inline LaTeX society would revolutionize... just imagine....

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egg @eggular.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

local lovecraftian horror the alexander horned sphere asking "please sir, I want some more". would you deny him?

image of Alexander Horned Sphere. made by Ryan Dahl, Creative Commons license

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egg @eggular.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

I find this excerpt from Rayne Fisher-Quann really interesting, and also sad - I don't feel this way at all! but I used to.

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egg @eggular.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

I lowkey love when textbooks are written like this

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egg @eggular.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

how does this follow at all from the previous two sentences ????

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egg @eggular.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

reading reactionary bullshit on Substack (this article is called PhDs are easy) and the suggestions to make PhDs more meritorious are mind-numbingly idiotic

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egg @eggular.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

if I was a highly educated mathematician I simply wouldn't swallow up pro-ethnic cleansing agitprop slop so breathtakingly overt as to insult one's intelligence

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egg @eggular.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

scaling limits is a very refined serious subject with refined serious random objects

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egg @eggular.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

I wonder if it's really satisfying to write this kind of paper (5ish of the references are cited precisely because they assert something incorrect)

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egg @eggular.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Question, by May Swenson

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egg @eggular.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

from "Some comments on piecewise-projective groups of the line" by Nicolas Monod

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egg @eggular.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Love a page of handwritten notes (scanned into PDF) that begins with "Fact 🙁"

by Greg Hjorth (I think), from here: https://www.math.ucla.edu/~popa/workshop0307/ucla07hjorth.PDF

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egg @eggular.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Jill Lepore's recent New Yorker article was one of the stupidest things I've ever read

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egg @eggular.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

algebraic geometers use banana integrals as it is well-known in algebra that reducing the problem to fruit makes the problem significantly more tractable, see e.g.

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egg @eggular.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

yes I'm an analyst, yes I do banana integrals 🍌

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egg @eggular.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

from Mathematics Made Difficult by Carl E. Linderholm

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egg @eggular.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

April, by Louise Glück, from the Wild Iris, 1992

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egg @eggular.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

I really want to be able to use TikZ to draw a branching random walk (ideally through actual code, maybe at most I have to specify the first two vectors of displacements, but I don't want to spend 3 hours fiddling with points and spacing by hand.) Anyone know how to do this?

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egg @eggular.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

! AI is the future of mathematics

Greenlinger's lemma is a mathematical result that is used to prove other statements.

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egg @eggular.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

recent Bass Serre theory presentation I gave

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egg @eggular.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

when I talk about random trees now, I increasingly think about this line by Brecht: "What times are these, in which / A conversation about trees is almost a crime / For in doing so we maintain our silence about so much wrongdoing!"

What times are these, in which
A conversation about trees is almost a crime
For in doing so we maintain our silence about so much wrongdoing!
And he who walks quietly across the street,
Passes out of the reach of his friends
Who are in danger?

It is true: I work for a living
But, believe me, that is a coincidence. Nothing
That I do gives me the right to eat my fill.
By chance I have been spared. (If my luck does not hold,
I am lost.)

They tell me: eat and drink. Be glad to be among the haves!
But how can I eat and drink
When I take what I eat from the starving
And those who thirst do not have my glass of water?
And yet I eat and drink.

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