“The problem with the singularity is that once we are in the upper quadrant, i.e., once we have gone through the horizon and are ‘inside the black hole,’ we can’t avoid eventually hitting it. Indeed, it is not really a place. As already discussed last lecture, it is really, in a sense, a time. We can avoid an obstacle in space–we go around it–but we cannot avoid 'hitting the future.’ We can escape from things, even from freedom, but not from the future.”
“You can use this at a party if the person you’re talking to is someone you’re trying to impress, or if you’re trying to get them to go away. It works in both cases.”
— Analysis Professor on proving the real numbers are not countable
You know, people think mathematics is complicated. Mathematics is the simple bit. Its the stuff we can understand. Its cats that are complicated. I mean, what is it in those little molecules and stuff that make one cat behave differently than another, or that make a cat? And how do you define a cat? I have no idea.
Jonathan Gleason was my friend who committed suicide just over a month ago… and I just found out that he wrote this 800+ page analysis textbook. By himself. Because he was teaching analysis and he was dissatisfied with the textbook he was assigned so he just…. wrote his own.
Even if you haven’t done any math… please just take a look at this. Scroll through it as fast as you like. It’s incredible that he put so much work and so much free time into this… I’m still in awe and I really want everyone to see it. In particular, if you want a good laugh, look at chapter 5 of the analysis textbook. The opening paragraph is SO Johnny.
I really want to thank everyone who has reblogged/liked this, and even anyone who just clicked on the link to check it out. I wasn’t expecting more than a handful of notes on this, so knowing that his hard work gets shared and even appreciated by a few strangers really means a lot.
I’ve taken some of the best/easiest to follow snippets and provide them here, I hope you enjoy them as much as I have:
“Da fuq”.
Oh thank god.
At least he admits when he’s being sloppy.
God, I wish more math textbooks read like this.
And last but not least, my absolute favorite part, the opening to the chapter on integration.
There are so many more tidbits like this and I wish literally all of my textbooks could be written like this.
Jonothan Gleason died Jan 16th, 2018 and it means so much to me that so many people got a kick out of the little pieces of him that are in this book. Thanks for all of the rb’s and likes, I’m so happy that even just a few hundred people got to enjoy his writing and hard work.
Jonathan Gleason was my friend who committed suicide just over a month ago… and I just found out that he wrote this 800+ page analysis textbook. By himself. Because he was teaching analysis and he was dissatisfied with the textbook he was assigned so he just…. wrote his own.
Even if you haven’t done any math… please just take a look at this. Scroll through it as fast as you like. It’s incredible that he put so much work and so much free time into this… I’m still in awe and I really want everyone to see it. In particular, if you want a good laugh, look at chapter 5 of the analysis textbook. The opening paragraph is SO Johnny.
I really want to thank everyone who has reblogged/liked this, and even anyone who just clicked on the link to check it out. I wasn’t expecting more than a handful of notes on this, so knowing that his hard work gets shared and even appreciated by a few strangers really means a lot.
I’ve taken some of the best/easiest to follow snippets and provide them here, I hope you enjoy them as much as I have:
“Da fuq”.
Oh thank god.
At least he admits when he’s being sloppy.
God, I wish more math textbooks read like this.
And last but not least, my absolute favorite part, the opening to the chapter on integration.
There are so many more tidbits like this and I wish literally all of my textbooks could be written like this.
Jonothan Gleason died Jan 16th, 2018 and it means so much to me that so many people got a kick out of the little pieces of him that are in this book. Thanks for all of the rb’s and likes, I’m so happy that even just a few hundred people got to enjoy his writing and hard work.
