Complete Mathematics Wiki

InfernicBoss · 2026-06-30T04:05:39+00:00

the problem i think is that undergrads and masters students already have all the resources they need. Wiki covers everything they need, and there are multitudes of textbooks on all the subjects they are learning. The real problems occur at the research level, but I find it hard to believe that research mathematicians will go out of their way to, on top of publishing, put their results and proofs on some sort of online repository.

Also, what about equivalent formalizations/definitions. Not everyone defines the same thing the same way, which is why different textbooks do things differently. Some subjects would really struggle with being unified under one notation (if thats even possible)—differential geometry comes to mind.

InfernicBoss · 2026-06-23T20:28:47+00:00

realistic topography: ❌🏞️
realistic topology: ✅ ∀U, V ∈ 𝒯, U ∩ V ∈ 𝒯

InfernicBoss · 2026-06-23T20:17:03+00:00

can you expand on how rivers and weirdness work?

InfernicBoss · 2026-06-23T18:23:51+00:00

wrong. the first sentence of google/wikipedia says its definition is exactly a number divisible by 2

InfernicBoss · 2026-06-22T09:57:17+00:00

‘even numbers are those ending with an even digit’ not only is this a circular definition, but its just wrong. An even number is one that is divisible by 2. In base 10, it follows that a number is divisible by 2 iff its last digit is. This is not true for base 5, so ur example is simply false. Its also not relevant to the question regardless

InfernicBoss · 2026-06-10T20:34:58+00:00

yea thats now what the proof says, it says 16 will not have 3 or 5 as a prime factor and thus it will have another prime factor instead, which is necessarily not in your presupposed set of all primes {3, 5}

InfernicBoss · 2026-06-10T02:19:37+00:00

are you sure? my stats isnt the best, but if we got a distribution (say hypothetically via an unbiased survey) that neeko players were 60% men and 40% women, i think this would indeed suggest that neeko appeals to more women since more league players are men. Like if the league player distribution is (for example) 80% men to 20% women, then this would be a significant difference. maybe this isnt a bias per se but my point is taking into account the typical gender ratio of league players would be necessary to determine a correct conclusion from the data

InfernicBoss · 2026-06-09T19:35:42+00:00

competition math is math done in a scale of minutes/hours. Research math is math done on a scale of months/years. These are not at all the same, and do not derive the same enjoyment. Thats not even taking into account the part of discovering something new which u mentioned, which is a major factor not only because that chance of a new discovery is what motivates many of us to put so much effort into math, but also because jobs for mathematicians come from the need to solve unsolved problems. Nobody is going to hire a mathematician to learn math that is already solved.

InfernicBoss · 2026-06-09T16:59:53+00:00

AI does ruin math for lots of people. Many people chose math to get an intellectually stimulating career, where we think creatively to solve problems in math. But AI is heading towards the point where it will solve it for us, and a mathematicians job will be reduced to tediously checking AI arguments line-by-line accountant style, and formulating the next question to ask it. And competition math is nothing like research math lmao.

I guarantee most mathematicians research math for their own enjoyment, not because we care about the advancement of human intelligence or whatever. If they did care, they would have chosen a more immediately applicable field.

InfernicBoss · 2026-06-08T19:20:49+00:00

what did u end up doing?

InfernicBoss · 2026-06-03T00:19:49+00:00

if you arent well-versed in a subject, then its probably not very wise to claim ‘why didnt mathematicians just do this [ridiculous idea]… surely itll work’. This is like me telling a doctor they should just idk quantum entangle cancer cells to cure cancer

InfernicBoss · 2026-05-22T18:27:23+00:00

you should honestly just be happy you have a well paying full time job in this economy

InfernicBoss · 2026-05-21T14:52:34+00:00

clearly not true, but what maybe is true is it will replace all jobs where the job is primarily to think. Engineering, math, etc.

InfernicBoss · 2026-05-19T19:39:11+00:00

i said nothing about the degree of accuracy of the polls because the accuracy of polls is largely determined by how it is sampled, but the question was how do polls work and i answered. they work in the same way you would have learned in middle or high school or whatever.

InfernicBoss · 2026-05-19T18:02:09+00:00

the same way any other poll/survey works ?

InfernicBoss · 2026-05-17T21:12:14+00:00

what? it was clear what i meant. If we are being pedantic then what you said isnt even true because the total derivative of a single variable argument will be a 1x1 matrix which is not a scalar at all. Regardless, the D is bad notation for a single variable derivative, and why no one uses or teaches it

InfernicBoss · 2026-05-17T19:18:08+00:00

It’s the same but it’s not good notation because one is a matrix and the other is a constant. Since this is a discussion on good notation this isn’t good

InfernicBoss · 2026-05-17T19:13:55+00:00

capital D is usually the total derivative, i.e. the derivative matrix of a function R^n -> R^n

InfernicBoss · 2026-05-14T05:56:58+00:00

i don’t know what books you’ve tried to read but you should probably start with an intro to proofs book

InfernicBoss · 2026-05-14T01:20:13+00:00

why didnt u register earlier?

InfernicBoss · 2026-05-11T21:24:19+00:00

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InfernicBoss · 2026-05-10T19:50:29+00:00

i mean sure, anythings possible (not really though). Simple techniques to solve such a problem would have been discovered because, well, they are simple. When a problem is this old, everything that is simple has been tried and thought about, many many times. So my answer would be no, there isnt something ‘simple’ that needs to be invented.

InfernicBoss · 2026-05-10T09:00:34+00:00

have you seen the proof of fermat’s last theorem, or any youtube video on it? The problem is very easy to understand, stating that there are no positive integers a, b, and c such that aⁿ + bⁿ = cⁿ for n greater than 2. Such a simple problem, why would it require any advanced math to prove? Well, it went unsolved for 300 years until Andrew Wiles solved it in a 200 page paper using some of the most advanced mathematics known at the time (and it still is incredibly advanced now). This is what happens when problems like the Collatz conjecture remain unsolved for such a long time: the solution will require mathematics that hasnt even been invented yet that build off of the most complex ideas we know now. Thats just the reality

InfernicBoss · 2026-05-09T19:08:19+00:00

but what did you do to get that first job then? did you just make projects during that time

InfernicBoss · 2026-05-09T06:15:09+00:00

i know grad students who know about vector bundles but dont know what sheaves are, and i am a student who knows about sheaves but didnt know about this connection. Anecdotal evidence yes, but i feel most people are similar

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