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Hey do you want to hear about this cool new result in maths? Let's just speedrun a graduate course in all the prerequisites! (I more or less do have the backgr

by Y_Y 10mo ago

Hey do you want to hear about this cool new result in maths? Let's just speedrun a graduate course in all the prerequisites! (I more or less do have the background to read these things, but it's super off-putting to start the article about a crazy new proof from a Fields medallist with an introduction to manifolds.)

Quekid5 10mo ago
(EDIT: I'm sorry, this silly and dumb.) "You want many folds!" We gottem!
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- Y_Y 10mo ago
  I'm a differential geometer and I approve this message
moralestapia 10mo ago
You can always just not read an article, particularly if it triggers you. I think it's nice someone wrote about this, even if it's super technical and I cannot understand it completely. I got it for free!
- kridsdale1 10mo ago
  I can tell which of the two of you likely has a more enjoyable life.
  - echelon 10mo ago
    Taste, or whatever you want to call this, is orthogonal to enjoyment. I think Steve Jobs very much enjoyed life, and you know what kind of an attitude he had about things. We're all wired up differently.
- vixen99 10mo ago
  Excellent advice.
gsf_emergency_6 10mo ago
Do you have the background to do what QM/wiki does, but for HN? Eg breakdown the explanation of the Hodge diamond on P6 of the paper LI5 Here's how en.wiki (with diagram!!) does it -- which I thought could have been handwaved better in TFA: Mirror symmetry translates the dimension number of the (p, q)-th differential form h^(p,q) for the original manifold into h^(n-p,q) of that for the counter pair manifold. (n=4 for the paper) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homological_mirror_symmetry#Hodge_diamond https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homological_mirror_symmetry#Ho... To call this an idea from string theory, is giving string theory too much credit (imho)
CamperBob2 10mo ago
(Shrug) It's a really nice introduction to manifolds, to the extent that's what it is. Really it's just an introduction to rational parameterization, which I'd never heard of but which at first glance seems extremely nifty. It all gets pretty incomprehensible after that, but that's not the author's fault.
brooke2k 10mo ago
I mean that's pretty much just what Quanta does, if you don't like it I'd recommend reading a different publication. It's their whole shtick, simplifying complex news about science/mathematics just enough so that people completely unfamilar can get a general sense of what happened.
hayd 10mo ago
I'm reminded of a graduate course in Elliptical Curves where, late in the semester, we took a lecture to speedrun all the prerequisites and ideas of Perelman's [then new] proof of the Poincaré conjecture. It was wild but a lot of fun.

by Y_Y 10mo ago

Quekid5 10mo ago

(EDIT: I'm sorry, this silly and dumb.) "You want many folds!" We gottem!

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Y_Y 10mo ago
I'm a differential geometer and I approve this message

moralestapia 10mo ago

You can always just not read an article, particularly if it triggers you. I think it's nice someone wrote about this, even if it's super technical and I cannot understand it completely. I got it for free!

kridsdale1 10mo ago
I can tell which of the two of you likely has a more enjoyable life.
- echelon 10mo ago
  Taste, or whatever you want to call this, is orthogonal to enjoyment. I think Steve Jobs very much enjoyed life, and you know what kind of an attitude he had about things. We're all wired up differently.
vixen99 10mo ago
Excellent advice.

gsf_emergency_6 10mo ago

Do you have the background to do what QM/wiki does, but for HN? Eg breakdown the explanation of the Hodge diamond on P6 of the paper LI5 Here's how en.wiki (with diagram!!) does it -- which I thought could have been handwaved better in TFA: Mirror symmetry translates the dimension number of the (p, q)-th differential form h^(p,q) for the original manifold into h^(n-p,q) of that for the counter pair manifold. (n=4 for the paper) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homological_mirror_symmetry#Hodge_diamond https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homological_mirror_symmetry#Ho... To call this an idea from string theory, is giving string theory too much credit (imho)

CamperBob2 10mo ago

(Shrug) It's a really nice introduction to manifolds, to the extent that's what it is. Really it's just an introduction to rational parameterization, which I'd never heard of but which at first glance seems extremely nifty. It all gets pretty incomprehensible after that, but that's not the author's fault.

brooke2k 10mo ago

I mean that's pretty much just what Quanta does, if you don't like it I'd recommend reading a different publication. It's their whole shtick, simplifying complex news about science/mathematics just enough so that people completely unfamilar can get a general sense of what happened.

hayd 10mo ago

I'm reminded of a graduate course in Elliptical Curves where, late in the semester, we took a lecture to speedrun all the prerequisites and ideas of Perelman's [then new] proof of the Poincaré conjecture. It was wild but a lot of fun.