@sarahdoingthing I don't think math is a powerful ritual community in the sense of church ladies.
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@St_Rev@sarahdoingthing maybe the Putnam prep crew in the undergraduate math lounge?2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@Meaningness@sarahdoingthing Maybe I didn't hang out in the right groups. I don't see it, but I avoid such things diligently.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@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?2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@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 >1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@St_Rev asking questions like “so what is a real number” actually provoked visceral anxiety and therefore the angry response I got.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@St_Rev because in fact you can’t get real numbers without actual infinities (Dedekind cuts or Cauchy sequences) and those were triggers2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@Meaningness hm, maybe.@benedict and @nervemeter mentioned a Spanish mathematician who was working on alternate concepts of continuity...1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@Meaningness Never did follow up on it. But it does seem to me that the actual Spooky Thing is continuity, and it's *weird*...1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@Meaningness ...that 'infinity' always forces its way into attempts to make sense of that.
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