>Be HS me 2 years ago
>Watching numberphile high as fuck
>Some nigga talking about how there are infinite convex regular polytopes in 2 dimensions, 5 in 3 dimensions, 6 in 4 dimensions and 3 in all dimensions higher than that
>Lol shit nigga dis weed good.
>I wonder about how they even prove that there are exactly that many for a dimension
>Be math major today
>Start studying convex polyhedra in 3-space in class
>Professor says we will be proving how there are only 5 convex polyhedra
>Sheeeiiiiiiiiiit nigga
Can anyone here tell me a single reason why studying mathematics is not like smoking a pound of weed and then looking at your roof until you see some crazy shit?
>>8423124
actually that's exactly what it's like, except that 'looking at your roof' actually has specific rules that you to have to follow so that you can be sure you are 'seeing some crazy shit'...
>c.f. non-Euclidean geometry
This is a nice thread. i dont exactly understand the point of it but thats a good story.
>>8423124
I feel kind of bad for admitting this, but I didn't really understand topology until I got high as fuck and started reading General Topology by Kelley. 15 year old me was never the same again dude weed lmao
>>8423124
It is fun when things you did as a kid somehow become serious when you start studying mathematics. Your example is good. Watching numberphile garbage is not more than brainless fun but when you are actually studying geometry, knowing the regular polytopes is one of the most important things you need to know.
Another good example is when people are in like 3rd grade and they try to multiply using the taught algorithm really big numbers like 99999999999999*99999999999999999 as fast as they can and then when you study elementary number theory the first things you see are algorithms for division, multiplication and addition and see why they work.
That is something no one else gets.
>>8423381
>division algorithm with remainder
That shit def. gets used a ton in abstract algebra.
>>8423124
primes are like weed
>>8423393
legalize maths
>mfw
I smoke hella weed too bro, and I love math
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