ScholasticTopologist

Catholic, Thomist, topology, opera, ragtime, sewing, tie knots, suits, running, Indian food. Opposed to the academic culture of do-it-at-the-last-minute.

[ScholasticTopologist @NicholasScovil4]

@Ordo_Militaris @NEMonarchist Nice work! It shocks me that people still make wild, earth-shattering claims about what a document says without citing an actual source. But in this case, we obviously know why.

[ScholasticTopologist @NicholasScovil4]

@mathATb Amazing! Congrats to the authors!

[ScholasticTopologist @NicholasScovil4]

We are hiring a tenure-track or non-tenure-track (“Collegiate”) at the Assistant Professor level in CS to start fall 2026. Please share and apply!

https://t.co/c5lgNcO48u

[ScholasticTopologist @NicholasScovil4]

@prof_g Completely and totally unrelated, I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of the Riemann Hypothesis which this tweet's character limit is too small to contain.

[ScholasticTopologist @NicholasScovil4]

I created a series of videos to accompany the compass and straightedge constructions from the textbook A Brief Quadrivium by Peter Urickson.

https://t.co/D0yGvwBNiZ

[ScholasticTopologist @NicholasScovil4]

@QualiaQuanta Hi Jenny! Nice to meet you, and sorry for the late reply. I am almost never on here anymore. I'll take a look at your paper. Seems very interesting. I certainly love the Hopf fibration!

[ScholasticTopologist @NicholasScovil4]

Who says math has no practical applications?

[ScholasticTopologist @NicholasScovil4]

Paper with my brilliant collaborator Julian Brüggemann is now published in the Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra

https://t.co/pGhxmIkNDe

[ScholasticTopologist @NicholasScovil4]

Now THAT is linear algebra done right... thanks @prof_g

[ScholasticTopologist @NicholasScovil4]

Saw @BenFolds for the first time in 20 years last night! Still rocks! Took my 17 year old daughter, and her airplane was the first one he picked up! She asked him if the lyrics “these days” in Rockin the suburbs is an allusion to album These Days by Bon Jovi. It apparently not!

[ScholasticTopologist @NicholasScovil4]

I wrote a review of A Brief Quadrivium in the MAA Monthly!

https://t.co/GicqHY6nrY

[ScholasticTopologist @NicholasScovil4]

@darrenglass @G4GCelebration This confirms everything we have all known to be true about academic administrators 😂

[ScholasticTopologist @NicholasScovil4]

@FeserEdward But given that outreach is a huge aspect of his pontificate, it does not make any sense that he would use that word *knowing* it is a slur. (I have used words before not knowing they were offensive). We need to consider all the background data and interpret charitably.

[ScholasticTopologist @NicholasScovil4]

@adorientem Solipsists: not polite people.

[ScholasticTopologist @NicholasScovil4]

@prof_tom_ward Is this book consistent with Thomism, arguing against a Thomistic position, or something else?

[ScholasticTopologist @NicholasScovil4]

@WalmartThomist "By the use of his [Aquinas] works a man would profit more in one year than if he studied the doctrine of others for his whole life."

-Pope John XXII

[ScholasticTopologist @NicholasScovil4]

Is this heaven?

No, Assisi.

St Francis of Assisi, ora pro nobis!

[ScholasticTopologist @NicholasScovil4]

@MilitantThomist Oh my gosh, I was staring at these for so long, completely baffled until I finally noticed the word “condemned.” Whew!

[ScholasticTopologist @NicholasScovil4]

@MilitantThomist I don't know if this is what Feser is saying, but this is the main error of traditionalists: confusing infallible security with papal infallibility.

[ScholasticTopologist @NicholasScovil4]

@HYPEShalwin Haha, thanks, BOOOOOOOF.