Moduli spaces are really a very natural concept. You learn about your first one around 3rd grade with the introduction of the number line. A point on the line corresponds to a number. This idea (a point on a space corresponds to something you wish to classify) is pervasive!
@garvvee A curve in AG is not its underlying topological space, there is more than the finite set of points that forms the curve. You can have a point with non-trivial fundamental group
One of the most pathetic parts of tech culture is how everyone in tech has intense math envy despite having zero real interaction with research mathematics, so they engage with actual mathematicians on this fandom-totemic level.
Cautiously optimistic but extremely superstitious about something that may happen in the future, and I'm afraid that if I speak of it it will end up not happening
Today marks one year since Trumpโs inauguration and I can finally announce the completion of my own personal project 2025 that I started this time last year: bench 225 within a year. Thank you to the current administration for providing gym motivation
Went on a date yday w someone who told blatant lies. โI bench pressed 230 for reps within 6 months of lifting, then I quit and lost all the muscleโ. No you didnโt. You are a 140lbs woman, why do you even bother to lie about something so obviously untrue. Very confusing behaviour
@PeepNSheep1@rieszspieces I used to take the train to school every day with the son of a famous mathematician growing up, and I rock climbed w his other son. Once their dad came in and gave a lunchtime lecture on the p-adics. He was the first mathematician I knew
@PeepNSheep1 Basically no: it has produced no new results besides the contended abc in 15 years. This is why it's not seen as very robust, other big revolutionary theories have proved various other small results while being established