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Jay Bear

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Mathematician, coffee addict, bear, and Oxford comma supporter. ʕ •ᴥ•ʔ

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Hammer with "topos" written on top of it.

Hammer with "topos" written on top of it.

Ol' reliable.

07.10.2025 00:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Meme of two people on a bus, one happy one sad. The sad guy is titled "math is discovered". The happy guy is titled "math is invented".

Meme of two people on a bus, one happy one sad. The sad guy is titled "math is discovered". The happy guy is titled "math is invented".

Just let that shit go.

07.10.2025 00:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory infuriates me.

"Oh yeah but it's used everywhere and-"

You mathematical baby, it's like putting stickers over every hole in a dingy instead of just building a boat. It's like the Texas solution to paradoxes. "Just one more axiom bro please just one more axiom..."

07.10.2025 00:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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I’m an award-winning mathematician. Trump just cut my funding. The “Mozart of Math” tried to stay out of politics. Then it came for his research.

I wrote an op-ed on the world-class STEM research ecosystem in the United States, and how this ecosystem is now under attack on multiple fronts by the current administration: newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/im-an-awar...

18.08.2025 15:45 — 👍 792    🔁 325    💬 20    📌 32
Crying girl explaining something to mom, while mom looks with a plain face.

Crying girl explaining something to mom, while mom looks with a plain face.

Trying to convince my PhD supervisors I'm not insane.

17.07.2025 17:11 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0