/sci/ - Science & Math

>>7470061
>dat nose

Well you've already posted her, OP. Her or Emmy Noether.
This thread is now an Olivia appreciation thread

think i'm gonna throw up

>>7470101
Based Livy. Doesn't she browse /sci/? Someone was at least claiming to be her, giving me advice and linking me to her website.

>>7470105
What did she say? Stay out of topos theory? :P

>>7470061
math bff is my one and only

>>7470105
Really ? That's funny. I guess it's not that surprising since she's like 30 so she's in the age bracket of the people who come here but still, it's weird to imagine anyone doing serious work lurking here (well, except you I guess ;) ).

>>7470111
It was maybe three months ago. I was asking about topoi and duality. I recall committing the fallacy of thinking that Top was a topos because it is an (infinity,1)-topos, and she gently pointed out my mistake. It should all be in the archives; it was in a thread I had started. Not sure if I was namefagging at the time. We talked a bit on Isbell Duality, because I think constructing spectra is too sterile and needs a change, but she disagrees on that point I guess.

>>7470061
why is she perfect ?

>>7470231
Because she is charismatic, and I love watching her talk about monads.

>>7470117
she's bad at teaching math though. I only pay attention to her and not what she says.

If I were younger, this would turn me on.

https://youtu.be/S3xOB-Bigc8

She is a professor specializing in Combinatorics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etbcKWEKnvg

>>7470231
She taught me number theory in 2012. Come back to Sheffield Eugenia :'(

>>7470101
looks like that guy from Mr. Robot but with long hair.

>>7470492
>combinatorics
>ever
It's the slums of mathematics.

>>7470472
Nigga literally why the fuck did I just find out this shit is going on on youtube.

Claiming EK

Not gonna lie, these chicks are 5/10 at most.

>>7470529
you don't even study mathematics

>>7470557
>>7470492 is at least a 7/10

>>7470537
you haven't tumblr'd enough?

>>7470467
i mean because of the 2nd.

>>7470566
Eh, I'd give a 6/10, looks nice to talk to

>>7470561
Combinatorics is the collection of building blocks that the autistic math wizards play with to impress the general public while real sorcerers dabble with their powerful arts in their ivory towers.

>>7470577
field of infinite combinatorics is no less respectable than cohomology. you just buy into the fashions of mathematics like a hipster.

>>7470576
you might be a little gay to think she >>7470492
is a 6/10 while >>7470231 >>7470101are 5/10s.

>>7470061 >>7470101 are like 4/10s

>>7470580
Sure do! Because mathematicians find interesting things fashionable. I would rather study something that isn't extremely sterile, and you can't really argue that combinatorics is dryer than a box of salt.

>>7470231
She's cute. 9/10

>>7470538
>you will never have a threesome with EK and Harriet
Why live?

>>7470591
I'm an old school mathematician in a young body. I like old mathematics, the stuff you find boring and dry I find alive and rich. Different strokes.

>>7470601
she is ugly, 3.5-4 range.

>>7470603
Different strokes for different folks, no hate. The stuff I like is considered super boring and dry by many others (I like categorical logic, model theory, computability, et cetera).

>>7470624
I'm right there with you in computability theory. few in the math department study computability and no one in the CS department studies pure computability theory.

>>7470529
oh fuck off with this pretentious shite

>>7470598
should lose the mole though

>>7470231
5/10 at best

>>7470421
Monads ache for her.

>>7470625
Yeah, it's quite a shame. Another thing I really like is transfinite-state computation, but most who study computation in the first place are drawn to the fact that they can run all if their programs.

Mathematicians are retards I love being an electrical engineer

>>7470666
Satan speaks. yeah, Transfinite Turing machines have also their own halting problem unsolvable
within their own transfinite Turing machines. I wish more people out there studied this stuff, but most CS people interested in "computability" actually study computational complexity and I found people moving from pure computational complexity to applications within economics and geometry.

>>7470061
>inb4 babby math

>>7470761
babbys first math

>>7470529
This is literally right since it's full of Romanians.

>>7470529
That's actually true since it's full of Romanians.

I think Mirzakhani is pretty good looking.

>>7470061
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aARDFNyZIGc

i think i'm in love.

There's a really pretty Greek probability PhD student at my university.

I'm a 3rd year undergrad but I'm 24 because I didn't go to uni straight away after highschool

She lead an examples class every couple of weeks in one term and we kind of give nods/ smiles of recognition when we walk past but I'm pretty sure she only does that because she feel socially obliged to.

I'm thinking of emailing her and asking if I could discuss a problem with her then try and get her number.

Can you guys think of any better ideas? The only other thing I might have a chance of socialising with her naturally at would be if I randomly turned up to a postgraduate guest talk or something that she turned up to, but that would probably seem pretty affected since I haven't even done measure theory yet.
The only other thing I can think of would be just straight up trying to ask if she'd like to get coffee the next time I walk past her in September, but I think the probability of that working is low since we haven't really said anything apart from when I asked questions in the class.

Do any of you have any ideas for getting close to a PhD student when you're undergrad and your only history of interaction is answering maths questions in teaching seminars and subsequent nods/passing smiles of recognition in hallways?

>>7470929
Greek girls are snob as fuck. Basically you have to be an alpha male and have really high confidence to draw their attention.

Don't email her. Just talk to her at lunch.

>>7470929
The coffee plan is best. Either she does or doesn't like you based off your looks and intelligence.

Actually planning ways to get with a girl is retarded in my experience. You gotta be direct.

>>7470947
There isn't one big cafeteria or anything.

>>7470952
Tbh fam I think I would have more success if I got to talk to her during the nibbles after a maths talk or something.

Going straight up to her the next time I see her in a corridor and making like 5 lines of small talk before asking for her number and coffee is basically asking her to make her judgment based on my looks alone.

After a maths talk it would be quite easy to get like 3 or 4 minutes of small talk with her , naturally before I ask for her number.

>>7471027
It's gonna be obvious as fuck if you small talk her 3-4 mins after the class smh. You better be direct or else she's gonna cringe thinking about you every day she sees you fam

>>7471032
I don't think you're imagining it right. Don't worry dude either way my odds will be at least as high as just walking up to her the next time I see her in a hallway.

>>7470929
If she is your TA don't try to hit on her. There is a professional line there so don't cross it. Find some other hot grad student and ask them out (but not over email, do it in person).

I haven't had much luck in dating fellow math students/grad students. Usually someone outside your field will be better, you guys will be different enough to be interesting.

>>7470830
Ironically, the guy you responded to is Romanian.

Damn, this thread is legit creepy as fuck.

>>7471220
ugh, shitlords amirite?

>>7471113
At most you might call her my former TA
She doesn't have anything to do with me marks wise

>>7470061

>>7470061
>>7471759

All of them are ugly, tbh fam. They're probably spergs too.

>>7470624
>>7470625
Same here. It's good to know there's more guys like us out there.

>>7470905
>brit lab

>>7470761
literal barfing

>>7470785
Welp, I guess these video lectures aren't actually bad, considering it can be harder to get girls interested in technical subjects. Having a womyn explain things helps their attention span significantly. As a straight cis white male I do like to see more cleavage though :9

>>7470577
You may have been right a couple decades ago but modern combinatorics has made great progress in giving results a strong basis just like in other fields like algebra and analysis.

>>7470601

>>7471790
What. the. fuck. are you talking about.
You really need to get out more and talk to normal people.
Seriously your mind gets clogged up with shit when you visit whatever website it is you go to, reddit? Some shit like that.

>>7470061
>>7470231
Who are this semen demons?

>>7471759
>>7471760
Her bf?

>>7470061
there can be only one

>>7470830
I share an office with a Romanian (or something like that) combinatorics grad student.

>>7470061
Damn.

>my PhD work resulted in 8 papers

8 god damn papers?!

Making me feel like a little bitch for not even being published yet.

>>7472230
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fohXBj2UEI

>>7470120
>age bracket
I thought that was 18--34? She has the wrong genitals though (statistically speaking).