seeing more math on the TL recently. i haven't mathposted in a long time but i'm still happy to field math questions from twitter peeps, just reply here or tag me or w/e. big meaty philosophical questions like "wtf are real numbers anyway" would be particularly fun for me rn
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QT thread in response to "what is a set"
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this requires a long enough response that i'm gonna QT and do a separate thread. so it's tricky b/c there are two concepts here that should be given different names and we use "set" for both of them twitter.com/randomname1728…
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QT thread in response to "wtf are real numbers anyway"
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glad you asked! so there's a certain kind of person who will respond to this by describing one of the standard constructions of the real numbers. this is completely beside the point, and you can tell because there's more than one standard construction twitter.com/Jakob__B/statu…
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