I don't get it.Could someone explain this joke to me?
Topologists are mathfags who studies topology which basically means 'shapes remain the same even when bent or stretched' and to explain to people this idea, the go to example is a doughnut and a coffee cup. So the joke here is that the guy, who is a topologist, can only see one 'shape', that being the doughnuts. When in fact there are two but his field of thought is, again, same shit regardless of how it is bent or stretched or w/e.But I am sure you're aware of this, you just don't want Stoneyeet thread deleted.
>>151651255You can reshape a donut into a mug without breaking the topology of the object. Since the base of the mug is an indent and the handle is a hole, technically they have the same properties due to having the same continual structure.Imagine that the donut is the handle, and the rest is stretched out like clay and pressed into a mug.
>>151651255The joke is it is stupid to think that just because technical spectrums exist that means two clearly different things are actually one in the same. It's a logical argument to get the foot in the door for other ideas like race or gender being binaries and distinctly different and not intrinsically sociological distinctions.
>>151651255>donuts and coffee>"Hey guys, they're giving out free breakfast!"
>>151651255Jews and trans should die or something. Written by brown fat guy.
>>151651255the joke is that Academia is so woefully underfunded that they have to get academic staff to man concessionaries and catering.
>>151651981This.
>>151651255>Could someone explain this joke to me?
>>151651255>I don't get it.Furthest donut to the right. Also>>>/sci/
>>151651255It's almost like you have to be a paranoid lunatic like the author to understand the "joke"
>>151651255https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egEraZP9yXQ
So how do Topologists factor in stuff like atoms?
>>151651255American joke. You wouldn't get it.
>>151651255He's seething about trannies as usual
>>151651444>>151651555>two back to back Trips>no GETs4chan culture is doomed
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>>151651255>I don't get itYou do get it. You just wanted to talk 'bout it.
>>151651321This feels more like an xkcd joke.
>>151652896>rockthrow is evolving
>>151652500It's a platonic ideal. What you see in say >>151652366 is a representation of a "homotopy between two embeddings of S^1 × S^1 into R^3". It's not really meant to represent physical reality - it's meant to be an abstracted conception. These these are based on the notion of a continuum after all, which is something that is supposed to be infinitely divisible in sime sense. That's obviously not very much in accordance with reality.The usefulness of using such abstractions is that we can use them to make sure our intermediate logic steps when reasoning about stuff doesn't have any obvious flaws. Like for example, if you make some measurements when building a bridge they're never gonna be 100% accurate, but when you do the calculations to make decisions on how to design the bridge you don't want the act of calculating to add even more potential error.Poincaré has some great writing on kind of the philosophy of science and math, and how the two interact. And he's well within his rights to philosophize on the subject since he was an absolute genius at both. He was one of the early pioneers of topology actually, and basically started algebraic topology by himself. But he also did a bunch of stuff in physics like the n-body problem and was working out concepts of relativity before Einstein.
