QC (in Berlin 7/29-??? w/ COVID 😷) on Twitter: "at math camp i learned that number theory is very good and also that if i tried very hard and believed in myself i could get away with not showering for 4 days (it was my first time being away from my parents for that long)" / Twitter

Oct 20, 2020

i don’t think i’ve actually told this story anywhere in writing, so: the reason my math blog is called “annoying precision” is that when i was 15 i went to a math camp and the head instructor, glenn stevens, said in the intro lecture “mathematicians are annoyingly precise”

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@QiaochuYuan

· Oct 20, 2020

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it depends on what you mean by “more”! the squares have e.g. natural density 0 which is a decent way to formalize the intuitive idea that they get more and more sparse “more” can just mean a lot of things. there’s a reason my math blog is called “annoying precision”

QC (in Berlin 7/29-??? w/ COVID

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@QiaochuYuan

at math camp i learned that number theory is very good and also that if i tried very hard and believed in myself i could get away with not showering for 4 days (it was my first time being away from my parents for that long)

7:14 AM · Oct 20, 2020Twitter for iPad

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QC (in Berlin 7/29-??? w/ COVID

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just realized this tweet is slightly ambiguous and can be read as saying the camp lasted 4 days. the camp was 6 weeks long and that was long enough to learn lots of new exciting things like how to get away with only doing laundry once in 6 weeks

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