Last week it was combinatorics, and the week before probability theory.

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CATegory theory

>dude i can like classify things and shit
Uh huh. Meanwhile we’re out here sending people into space and building AI.

>>16918720
It's representation theory.
>Oh, group theory?
I mean, all the interesting groups which aren't borderline trivial are studied via their representations.
>Oh measure theory?
Yeah, of the two applications of measure theory (the other being probability), we're the interesting one.
>Functional analysis?
For sure; how else are you gonna study infinite dimensional representations?
>Commutative algebra?
Of course, I mean representations are just modules after all.
>Differential geometry?
Yep, needed in studying Lie groups.
>Harmonic analysis?
Absolutely; it's intrinsically tied to the study of representations.
>What about algebraic topology?
Well you gotta compute representations somehow - (co)homology.
>Algebraic geometry?
I'll do you one better, since we deal with sheaves of noncommutative rings. Also, Grothendieck spent much of SGA setting up algebraic groups.
>Dynamical systems?
Well I guess that's basically a nonlinear version of rep theory.
>Number theory?
Of course, their connection is seen for example in the Langlands program.
>Hm, but surely not something like differential equations?
Yep, they're intrinsically connected via D-modules.
>Uhh uhh Combinatorics?
Yep, categorical representation theory deals with all this messing about with string diagrams.
>I guess graph theory
Yep, quiver representations.
>Uh but what about set theory
Even then, you're needing some set theory with this condensed math framework that Scholze is working on, in order to deal with large cardinals.

>>16918734
>Category theory

Certainly not this. Too low entry barrier and, consequently, a lot of wannabe mathematicians there.
One doesn't even need to master any basic true math like calculus and linear algebra to become a cat theorist.

It just looks high-brow and fancy, being the most fucking useless field of math, I swear to God. Merely a wasting of chalk (and not ink, because they are all posers).

>>16918766
>basic true math
>like calculus
Oh, anon

>>16918771
I mean these dudes usually cannot even calculate an integral, what else should I say?
That's a first-year undergrad programme of literally any math faculty in the world.

Regardless of how math snob you are and how deep you are into "chronospectral topology of derived eigen-geometry of non-abelian entropy kinetics", you must be able to do that, and they just can't.

>>16918720
>>16918791
And regarding chadliest fields of mathematics, there are two:

The first one includes everything that has words "differential" and/or "geometry" in its name.

The second one is number theory.

>>16918720
Jewish bullshit. Actual infinity doesnt exist. Only potential Infinity. It doesnt make sense to map a bijection from Q to R. "Different kinds of infinity" is a jewish fairy tell that killed mathematics.
t. math degree

>>16918738
>MUH AI
>MATH BAD
kys
>t. arithmetic geometer

>>16918942
>muh ai
also kys

>>16918939
>It doesnt make sense to map a bijection from Q to R
To be precise, it doesnt make sense to try to make a bijection between non ending numbers and the fact that this is formally possible says nothing.

>>16918738
>building AI
NO ONE CARES ABOUT YOUR HALLUCINATION GARBAGE MACHINE FAD YOU FUCKING BOTTOMFEEDING WELL POISONING TROLL SPAMMER. NO ONE HERE WORTH THEIR SALT GIVES A SINGLE FUCKING FLYING FUCK ABOUT YOUR INANE GARBAGE THAT WASTES WATER AND KILLS PEOPLE. YOU ARE AT THE APEX OF A DYING BUBBLE AND TRUST ME THE END IS COMING SOON. VR. DEAD. NFTS. DEAD. SHITCOINS. DYING. AI. DYING TOO. YOU FUCKING RETARDED COCKSUCKERS HAVE BEEN THE FUCKING BANE OF THE ECONOMY BUT NOT ONLY THAT SOCIETY AT LARGE TOO FOR YEARS. MANY AGONIZING YEARS. AND WE NEED TO BE FREE FROM YOUR BULLSHIT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. TAKE YOUR WATER WASTING PEOPLE KILLERS SOMEWHERE ELSE, SPECIFICALLY VERY VERY VERY FUCKING FAR AWAY FROM HUMAN KNOWLEDGE.

>>16918954
Kurzgesagt put my point perfectly in their video. You should probably BE A FUCKING ADULT AND WATCH IT FOR ONCE YOU RETARDED TECH BRO TOURIST. Probably the most insightful and information dense video they've released in a while. Not like you would know that with YOUR RETARDED HORSESHIT PAPERS THAT YOU SPAM BOTH PREPRINT SERVERS AND JOURNALS WITH YOU RETARDED FUCKING CRETIN. You KNOW FUCKING NOTHING ABOUT THE FUCKING NEGATIVE EFFECTS YOUR INSANELY ROTTEN, CRINGE TECHNOLOGY HAS. YOU WORSHIP IT. YOU DON'T KNOW ANY BETTER. BECAUSE YOU ARE HUMAN CATTLE. FORGET ABOUT MY FUCKING FIELD WHICH IS ARITHMETIC GEOMETRY, AI CAN'T EVEN PUT A FUCKING DENT IN SQUARE PACKING.

YOU WILL NEVER BE ARTISTS. YOU WILL NEVER BE MATHEMATICIANS. YOU WILL NEVER BE COMPOSERS. YOU WILL NEVER BE PHYSICISTS. YOU WILL NEVER BE CODERS, ANYTHING. YOU WILL NEVER HAVE REAL EXPERTISE IN ANYTHING. YOU WILL CONTINUALLY REFUSE SELF DEVELOPMENT AND LEARNING BECAUSE AI INFLATES YOUR EGO FOR YOU AND GUIDES YOU INTO BEING A COMPLETE FUCKING RETARD FOR THE REST OF YOUR ADULT LIFE. IT'S ALWAYS BEEN LIKE THIS. YOU WANT COMPLIMENTS WHILE DOING NOTHING. NOTHING AT ALL. YOU FLOOD THE INTERNET WITH THIS SHIT LIKE IT'S SUPPOSED TO TAKE PRECEDENCE OVER ACTUAL QUALITY OUTPUT. IT SHOULDN'T AND OFTEN IT DOESN'T. YOU CAN'T EVEN MAKE MINOR CONTRIBUTIONS. THAT'S HOW UNSKILLED YOU ARE. YOU FUCKING RETARDED BABOONS. ALL OF YOUR RETARDED PILPUL IS COMPLETELY WORTHLESS, IT FALLS FLAT UNDER ANY SEMBLANCE OF SCRUTINY BECAUSE YOU LIKELY RELEGATED THAT TO YOUR FUCKING SYCOPHANTIC CHATBOT SEWERBOTS TOO. DIPSHIT.

Now, faggots. Explain why I should read at best mediocre papers in my field written by ScatGPT instead of actual papers written by other experts like me.

>>16918734
Useful in computer science, hardly ever used there. Low entry to research, lotta abstract nonsense obfuscation, making results look complicated when in reality they are trivial. Also full of literal trannies, leading to shit community cause low entry barrier and potential to stir shit up and trannies equals aids. Hope I never get reported to HR cause these freaks instinctively know what I think about them, also I do not talk to them.

>>16918939
>t. math degree
given the current year value of degrees, that don't mean much...

>>16918766
>>16918791
>>16919351
>low barrier to entry
that's what makes it chad and not some nerdy bullshit
or did you not read the OP?
I'm sorry, you thought being an autistic fucking know-it-all nerd made you a chad?

... ask me how I know you're a virgin and no female will ever willfully interact with you in your lifespan lmao

i like calculus but when i opened a real analysis textbook i decided it did NOT bring me closer to god.

>>16919475
numbers were given to us by GOD. In physics and calculus we study GODS WORLD. Analysis seeks to define WHAT DOES NOT NEED TO BE DEFINED because IT WAS GIVEN TO US BY GOD.

basically whatever the fuck Euler and Lagrange were doing in their heyday, they basically solved all of mathematics forever and everything that came after that was derivative bullshit

>>16919475
try complex anal(yes, there are "people" that abbreviate analysis so)

>>16918734
>>16919469

Please join

https://www.conferences.uni-hamburg.de/event/684/

QTCat is a workshop on category theory taken in a broad sense, run by and for queer and trans people. It aims to showcase the research done in this field by the queer and trans community, bringing together people working with category theory in fields such as mathematics, physics, philosophy, computer science and logic, both within and outside of academia, to discuss topics of common interest in a non-competitive environment.

Starts Aug 12, 2026, 8:00AM

Ends Aug 14, 2026, 5:30PM

>>16919816
Sounds based.
Keep coping.