stephanie

hot boys undergo like a 7x hotness multiplier if they are also better than me at math

like if ur even medium attractive but can successfully explain to me like......manifolds or something i’d probably suck ur dick no questions asked

Not super interested in the reward but if you actually want to know about manifolds I'd love to help teach that! It's easy to work in an x-y plane and it's harder to work in spherical polar coordinates (on a sphere) and even worse to work on, like, a hyperboloid and stuff.

But those two still have nice properties: if you zoom in really close, they behave locally just like the x-y plane, so all the things you can do in the latter apply (locally) to the former. (This is why the Earth looks flat until you're flying high enough above its surface.)

This is a local, not global, property: you can treat tiny pieces of a sphere as an x-y plane, but you can't flatten out an entire sphere onto an x-y plane no matter how much you warp or smush it.

For example, visualize the regular mercator projection map of Earth: where's the precise point that is the north pole? It's either the entire northern edge of the map or it's missing entirely.