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Carl Friedrich Gauss: The most evil man in history

OdradekOdradek
edited 2014-03-26 21:30:23 in General
File:Carl Friedrich Gauss.jpg

Look at this motherfucker.

LOOK AT HIM

HE KNOWS WHAT HE DID

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  • OdradekOdradek
    My dreams exceed my real life
    Hence may easily be shown what magnetic force is exercised in each point of space by the earth, however the magnetic fluids may be distributed therein. Imagine the whole volume of the earth, as far as it contains free magnetism (that is to say, separated magnetic fluids), to be divided into infinitely small elements; designate generally the quantity of free magnetic fluid contained in each of these elements by \operatorname{d}\!\,\mu, in which the southern fluid is always considered as negative; call \rho the distance of \operatorname{d}\!\,\mu from a point in space, the rectangular co-ordinates of which may be x, y, z; lastly, let V denote the aggregate of \frac{{\operatorname{d}\!\,\mu}}{{\rho}} comprehending with reversed signs the whole of the magnetic particles of the earth: or say

    THIS IS NONSENSE MOONSPEAK
  • Obā-sanObā-san

    well yeah you just cut him off mid sentence
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    No, those are Mercury runes.
  • Previous CalicaPrevious Calica
    (flower path)
    yeah mathematicians of that era were pretty fast and loose with infinitesimals and didn't know what they were doing

    mathematicians abandoned infinitesimals shortly after gauss's time i believe, for the dreaded epsilon-delta definition, and it wasn't until the 70s or so that a logical basis for working with infinitesimals was found

    oh wait you're trying to make some oblique point
  • Obā-sanObā-san

    i think he's trying to point out that AHHHHH MATH or something idk
  • Previous CalicaPrevious Calica
    (flower path)
    yeah i know what point he's trying to make, i just don't give a fuck

    the actual debates over rigor in mathematics are interesting but i dunno if this thread is worth it
  • Obā-sanObā-san
    edited 2014-03-26 23:43:29

    you know i just never got super into math

    i got like an A to a high B-ish grade in Calc and after that my interest kinda petered out

    my mom always assured me that when i got past calc everything would get SUPER MEGA ULTRA AWESOME

    but it was more like "oh hey that's kinda nifty"
  • Previous CalicaPrevious Calica
    (flower path)
    there's more interesting stuff than the shit they teach you in calculus which is more for engineers than anyone else
  • Salix BabylonikaSalix Babylonika
    https://i.imgur.com/7Iil2JW.png
    I, meanwhile, am still in Remedial Algebra, sitting at a solid C.

    anyway, time to save the picture in the OP as a reaction image.
  • TachyonTachyon
    imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    i wish i were more into math... i enjoy having puzzles to solve, but i don't have the patience to tackle anything beyond a certain difficulty level

    anyway, since the OP is Myr i'm guessing the joke here is a dig at threads by non-philosophers ranting about philosophers for using philosophical jargon
  • OdradekOdradek
    My dreams exceed my real life
    I just think it is silly and fun to declare a dead guy I know nothing about my archenemy.
  • TachyonTachyon
    imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    Ah.  Forgive me, i've become accustomed to threads making fun of people on twitter.
  • OdradekOdradek
    My dreams exceed my real life
    Tachyon said:

    Ah.  Forgive me, i've become accustomed to threads making fun of people on twitter.

    That was what made me think of the joke, but I brought it into the light of day because I thought it was funny.
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