Robert Low

Ex maths lecturer. Classics under^H^H^H^H^Hpostgrad @ClassicsWarwick. Tweets about maths, classics and other random stuff. Now also @[email protected].

[Robert Low @RobJLow]

@PlaidBarbarian Ow. Yes, slow and steady is also my training mantra now - "I can lift that" turned out to be a Bad Idea.

[Robert Low @RobJLow]

@ange1ina @JerMButterfield I can sometimes read mine. At least, if it's recent enough that I can vaguely remember what I wrote.

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@AlexAndBooks_ I am definitely doing more than my fair share then...

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@PhiloCrocodile @AntigoneJournal Feedback these days tends to be more in sorrow than exasperation. This does not mean one should not read between the lines to see that unwritten 'rubbish' or '(utter) piffle'.

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@martinmbauer I think you also need to know/believe that position and momentum are conjugate variables, so that the wavefunction's representations in position and momentum space are related by Fourier transform.

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@sentantiq Could even do it the other way, I think:
"because she wanted it, even though he didn't"

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@AntigoneJournal Surely the singular of ignoramus is ignoro...

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@Quasilocal @realmaddox I remember the early web. My browser was Lynx, and it was all text-based. (I just looked - Lynx still exists!)

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@AntigoneJournal For the purpose of inter-disciplinary comparison, you might find this interesting.

https://t.co/1krSG1dFhQ

(Of course, you may also not find it interesting.)

[Robert Low @RobJLow]

@sentantiq And is he really the embodiment of nous rather than metis?

[Robert Low @RobJLow]

@AlexKontorovich It's probably also hard because the further you get, the bigger the people teaching you assume your zone of proximal development to be. (Possibly because they all have really big ones.) So it gets harder as you progress because the ideas are harder *and* the steps get bigger. :-(

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@sentantiq He could meet all the people Odysseus claims to have connections with there, and they could all say "Who?".

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@PhiloCrocodile @theo_nash X-Twitter could do with more of this attitude.

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@AntigoneJournal And 'only' £150. I guess they only expect libraries to buy it. (And at that price, they're probably right :-()

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@poetengineer__ Sounds a bit like everybody's past...

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@theo_nash Even if you don't want the facing page crib, they're a pretty affordable way to get the Greek/Latin text. (With a little bit of app crit if you're that way inclined.)

[Robert Low @RobJLow]

@harryrose670 Maybe the writer felt some kind of tainted love for Carmen.

[Greg Egan @gregeganSF]

How can we generalise the fact that the angles at the vertices of a triangle add up to 180°, to apply to tetrahedra and higher-dimensional n-simplexes?

Here’s a result discovered by Benoît Bertrand and Lucía López de Medrano that I learned from Omar Antolín.

[Robert Low @RobJLow]

@Anthony_Etherin Blimey!