contrary to popular belief, number theory is not the study of numbers. it is the study of variables named p, n, m, and if you’re doing really out there things, \ell

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lookupdarling-tothestars asked:

The frog in your inventory, what’s its name? Does it know any tricks?

I think it’s named Daniel. It knows how to prove Fermat’s sum of two squares theorem in one sentence!

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spandexlambtube asked:

here have my attention

why are collatzlikes so hard

uh. probably because you can kind of boil it down to “we don’t understand what happens to the prime factorization of n when adding 1”

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phd student friend who does number theory: number theory people are weird
probability theorist randomly walking by: oh yeah that’s true

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