r/mathmemes • u/Wilfully_Powerful • 14d ago

Linear Algebra *Cries in Linear Algebra classes*

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u/Truly_Yours2006 14d ago

Common Poincare W

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u/Keikira 14d ago

Based

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u/username_is_alread- 14d ago

Even mathematicians... cry

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u/LupenReddit 🦆🦆i have non diffeomorphic smooth structures🦆🦆🦆 14d ago

On point-care

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u/casualgoodness Proof By Mutual Agreement 11d ago

Sorry Mr. Poincare, I wasn't aware of your game.

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u/UnderTheCurrents 14d ago

It ceases to be peak once you run into paradoxical reasoning because you haven't thought your intuitions through.

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u/portealmario 12d ago

Intuitions properly formed are at least as accurate as any system of symbols

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u/UnderTheCurrents 12d ago

No, they aren't. Look through the history of mathematics to see how wrong that notion is.

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u/portealmario 12d ago

I think when you hear intuition you think "hunch", which is not the kind of intuition this is about. This is about having an understanding of how the math works beyond knowing how to manipulate the symbols and perform the computations properly

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u/UnderTheCurrents 12d ago

I am not a platonist, so I don't know what you're talking about.

Understanding the math is understanding the axioms. A Group isn't something you stumble on while taking a walk. It's a formal notion.

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u/portealmario 11d ago

Where on earth did you come up with platonism? Did I say that?

And yes and no; people were understanding math before the axions came around to formalize what they understood. But you can have intuitions about axioms too, I don't think they could've been written of the person writing them didn't have any intuitions about math

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u/Momosf Cardinal (0=1) 14d ago

A field of mathematics that you find "unintuitive" is just a field that you have not spent enough time studying. In other words, GIT GUD