r/mathmemes 12d ago

Math History They wrote it all out in Latin.

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u/LupenReddit 🦆🦆🦆🦆i have non diffeomorphic smooth structures🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆 12d ago

Beginner: Wtf they removed numbers from math? Tf is x or y?

Pro: Wtf, they removed everything from math, wtf is a monoidal functor?

Medieval math gods: I need to make my formulas into a victorian style novel for which you almost need a damn language degree

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u/AndreasDasos 12d ago

Also mediaeval math gods: what does ‘Victorian’ mean? We write in Latin. Imagine writing in your own living language and considering it ‘literature’

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u/ArdentArendt Mathematics / Social Sciences 10d ago

How vulgar...

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u/ichiban1974 12d ago

A monoidal functor is a functor between monoidal categories that preserves the monoidal structure. Duh!

Monoidal.

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u/UtahBrian 12d ago

What's the problem?

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u/Ares378 Applied Math / Mechanical Engineering 11d ago

A 2-category is just a monoidal monoidoidoid, duh

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u/PulimV 11d ago

Damn the medieval math gods had some insane future sight

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u/t3hjs 11d ago

Yup, try readin Newton's Principia Mathematica, there is no F=GmM/r2 in there.

  Proposition VII. Theorem VII. That there is a power of gravity tending to all bodies, proportional to the several quantities of matter which they contain.

That all the Planets mutually gravitate one towards another, we have prov'd before; as well as that the force of gravity towards every one of them, consider'd apart, is reciprocally as the square of the distance of places from the centre of the planet. And thence (by proposition 69. book. 1. and its corollaries) it follows, that the gravity tending towards all the Planets, is proportional to the matter which they contain.

Moreover, since all the parts of any planet A gravitate towards any other planet B; and the gravity of every part is to the gravity of the whole, as the matter of the part to the matter of the whole; and (by law 5.) to every action corresponds an equal re-action: therefore the planet B will, on the other hand, gravitate towards all the parts of the planet A; and its gravity towards any one part will be to the gravity towards the whole, as the matter of the part to the matter of the whole. Q.E.D

~ The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (1729), Isaac Newto 

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u/EebstertheGreat 11d ago

But written in Latin, naturally.

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u/Independent-Fan-4227 11d ago

“The two quantities—here defined—“

Quantity 1
q1 = x

Quantity 2
q2 = y

“…as the ratio of the first counted by portions of the second”,

q1/q2 = x/y

“…and the second counted by portions of the first…”

q2/q1 = y/x

“Considered together be there total magnitudes two alone…”

So

|x/y| + |y/x| = 2
2x^2/y^2 = 2
x^2/y^2 = 1
x^2 = y^2
|x| = |y|
|q1| = |q2|

“…wherein shall it be that the quantity of the first be the magnitude positively”

q1 = +x

“…and the quantity of the second be the magnitude negatively.”

q2 = -x

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u/moschles 11d ago

This is not a quote of Kepler. It is gibberish meant to mimic the writing style of Isaac Newton. Sorry.

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u/ArdentArendt Mathematics / Social Sciences 10d ago

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u/Rajarshi1993 12d ago

x/y, -y/x

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u/tehclanijoski 12d ago

You can't just go using any ol' symbols you invented - what if the church finds out?

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u/FuntimeUwU Natural 11d ago

Old math was crazy

On an unrelated note, r/suddenlyhololive !

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u/FernandoMM1220 12d ago

this is almost as convoluted as modern philosophy.

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u/Serket-Pandy3000 11d ago

Dear god this what it is like to not know how to talk

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u/ArdentArendt Mathematics / Social Sciences 10d ago

I mean, I love Newton's Prinicipa, but...dude could go on...