open-source software as ritual community, with @maradydd's "network proprioception" substituting for numinous statespic.twitter.com/EeaPxMIfXC
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@sarahdoingthing I don't think math is a powerful ritual community in the sense of church ladies.
@St_Rev @sarahdoingthing maybe the Putnam prep crew in the undergraduate math lounge?
@Meaningness @sarahdoingthing Maybe I didn't hang out in the right groups. I don't see it, but I avoid such things diligently.
@St_Rev BTW, I’ve been working for past couple days on my page on the foundational crisis in math in early 20th century…
@St_Rev Remember the discussion we had puzzling about why none of our teachers were willing to explain what math is or how to do it?
@St_Rev Have a new hypothesis, that the crisis left an institutional PTSD, so that everyone learned it was better not to go there, and my >
@St_Rev asking questions like “so what is a real number” actually provoked visceral anxiety and therefore the angry response I got.
@St_Rev because in fact you can’t get real numbers without actual infinities (Dedekind cuts or Cauchy sequences) and those were triggers
@Meaningness hm, maybe. @benedict and @nervemeter mentioned a Spanish mathematician who was working on alternate concepts of continuity...
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