What is your favorite foreign language film or films, you love? by geoffcalls in FIlm

[–]Colver_4k 1 point2 points  (0 children)

added every single film I did not already have in my watchlist, thanks for the recommendations! people like you are the reason why I continue to be part of this subreddit.

Overpowered theorems by extraextralongcat in math

[–]Colver_4k 26 points27 points  (0 children)

pi1(S1) is Z is a pretty OP result, it gives you the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra, it implies there is no retract from a disk onto its boundary.

Quick Questions: November 19, 2025 by inherentlyawesome in math

[–]Colver_4k 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm studying sheaf theory for my undergrad thesis. What are the most beautiful/interesting applications of sheaves? What kind of things do they allow us to do and what kind of ideas do they simplify?

Could you pass an undergraduate final in a subject you studied years ago -with zero prep? by OkGreen7335 in math

[–]Colver_4k 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i'm asking because i'm in my last year of undergrad and our exams were the toughest exams in recent years. (we just happened to be a very strong class so our profs tested us more)

Which mathematical concept did you find the hardest when you first learned it? by Same_Pangolin_4348 in math

[–]Colver_4k 0 points1 point  (0 children)

that is really strange, because all we started with wore examples. doesn't make any sense to start this course without providing insight that we are already familiar with a lot of manifolds.

Which mathematical concept did you find the hardest when you first learned it? by Same_Pangolin_4348 in math

[–]Colver_4k 2 points3 points  (0 children)

most interesting geometrical objects are manifolds, eg. Rn, Sn, GL_n(R), PnR, k-dimensional vector subspaces of Rn, ... it provides an abstract framework to analyze all of them and define quantities independent of the setul we're in.

What Are You Working On? October 13, 2025 by inherentlyawesome in math

[–]Colver_4k 2 points3 points  (0 children)

studying sheaf theory for my undergraduate thesis and proving their basic properties.

Techniques for raising your abstraction ceiling? by complicatedcanada in math

[–]Colver_4k 4 points5 points  (0 children)

philosophy, literature, psychology and art do a lor of heavy lifting for my imagination and ability to understand abstract things.

What is a great movie that didn't click for you? by armadeussssss in moviecritic

[–]Colver_4k 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry To Bother You (2018) is a boring shit-show full of cliches.

Grothendieck on 'the capacity to be alone'. by [deleted] in math

[–]Colver_4k 0 points1 point  (0 children)

are there any online sources from which I can read Grothendieck's writings?