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]

@AlphaB1tch @theo_nash No: it's useful and desirable but funding is scarce, so not everybody has the opportunity. The situation is a bit complicated/eased by the integrated masters, which enables people who go to the right university to effectively do a masters as their first degree.

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@Quasilocal @Mat_Hunt Petition for a new archive called vixrAI

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@dodecahedra Yeah, but you need about 40 hours of measure theory to prove that volume is rotation invariant. (If you know enough maths, everything is hard.)

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@PaulMcKenna4 @StartsWithABang Maybe the trick is to 'eat' the universe as you go so that eventually the universe is empty apart from you and a spaceship with an awful lot of kinetic energy :-)

[Robert Low @RobJLow]

@wylfcen You have to bear in mind that some are more equal than others.

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@DrFrancisYoung I sometimes wonder how many of the items we look at in wonder and say 'How did they do that? We have lost the ancient technology!' they said 'How the hell did that happen?' on the one and only occasion it came out like that.

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@RepealTCPA1947 Credit where it's due, though, that was a pretty effective bit of trolling.

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@RepealTCPA1947 We are truly fortunate that English spelling is so directly related to sound and intuitive.

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@Quasilocal WTF?

[Robert Low @RobJLow]

@RJS2212 @tessmaths @Just_Maths @StudyMaths

[Robert Low @RobJLow]

@sentantiq So, now I know the Greek for "Come and have a go it you think you're hard enough."

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@theo_nash Like my "favourite" bit in the (older!) Greek texts that tell you there's no need to spend time on the genitive absolute because it's just the same as the ablative absolute in Latin.

[Robert Low @RobJLow]

@PaulMcKenna4 @RepealTCPA1947 Funny how the things you now are the easiest to understand, isn't it?

[Robert Low @RobJLow]

@PaulMcKenna4 @RepealTCPA1947 Well, it's definitely closer than Chinese...

[Robert Low @RobJLow]

@Anthony_Bonato TBF surprisingly many students pass calculus courses without knowing what derivatives or integrals are.

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@PaulMcKenna4 Took me entirely unawares when it was first broadcast. I don't often cry watching tv, but that ending...

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@DrFrancisYoung Made by Hammer in the 1960s.

[Robert Low @RobJLow]

@PlaidBarbarian Not to mention
(a) not the Odyssey, and
(b) wronger than a wrong thing about so much. (Stirrups?!!!?)