Looking at history of the Cauchy dist for the first time and it’s *fascinating*. pdf is called “Witch of Agnesi” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch_of_Agnesi … https://twitter.com/patrickshafto/status/921347162243510272 …
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put this fun demo up a bit ago but never actually expanded or explained ithttps://gist.github.com/sophiaray/9ccf9608aa15b1248416560f1ab12067 …
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I like to think of 19th C mathematics as a bunch of dudes that think they figured it all out and Cauchy is sitting there in the corner, taking a huge bong rip, and is like "ok walk with me a sec suppose you split the intervals into thirds and..."
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and Weierstrass is there like "motherfucker" but then also takes a rip
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Hahaha, that motherfucker is next on my list. And Cantor.
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oh right Cantor did the thirds bit, cauchy did the I'm not touching youuuu game
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God I wish I could have done analysis in the 1800s. So much ripe material to discover.
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Waaay easier to get tenure somewhere too, if you’re lucky enough to be parrot of the class that has access to unis
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Doing math in the 21st century tho i get to wear pajamas and also be a woman so there's that
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