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Dan Waterfield
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Wrote a History PhD on The Burney Family / Social Democrat / gam zu l'tovah. Interested in lit, theology, history, software, systems, &c.
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Jordan Ellenberg’s Shape
Now, on the one hand it's quite difficult, it turns out, to write a formal proof of this fact, known as the Jordan Curve Theorem.* On the other hand, I spent those two weeks in a state of barely controlled irri-tation. Was this what math was truly about? Making the obvious labori-ous? Reader, I zoned out. So did my classmates, among them many future mathematicians and scientists. Two kids who sat right in front of me, very serious students who would go on to earn PhDs in math at top-five universities, would start vigorously making out every time Distinguished Elder Researcher turned back to the board to chalk out yet another delicate argument on a perturbation of a polygon. I mean just really going at it, as if the force of their teen hunger for each other could somehow rip them into another part of the continuum where this proof was not still taking place.
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Reading this, v good

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“Isabel Oakeshott’s twink researcher is giving off major Robbie Travers vibes” I say. Slowly, the other people waiting at the bus stop back off from me.

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Why expend energy flying all over the village when one house puts out bird food every day?

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No matter how much I understand that moving money into vanguard is long term investing, my brain refuses to accept it as anything other than ‘spending money’

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Dan Waterfield
@danwaterfield.bsky.social
Wrote a History PhD on The Burney Family / Social Democrat / gam zu l'tovah. Interested in lit, theology, history, software, systems, &c.
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