Welcome again to everybody. Make yourselves at home. In the time-honoured tradition of our group, here is the weekly discussion thread!

P.S. Update on those stability improvements/enhancements I mentioned in my previous weekly thread: they’re finished. The matrix server uptime is now better. Suspiciously better, some might say. Anyway, enjoy the reliability >:3

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  • TabularTuxedo@lemmygrad.ml
    4·
    17 days ago

    Marx’s mathematical manuscripts are very underrated. There’s this footnote which I think it’s pretty interesting despite being very vague:

    Marx distinguishes in each equation two sides (where now we speak of two parts), the left hand and the right hand which do not always play symmetric roles. On the left-hand side of the equation he frequently places two different, equivalent expressions joined by the conjunction ‘or’. (source)

    So, for Marx, x = y is not the same as y = x (even though they mean the same thing in modern math).

    • yunah-knowles@lemmygrad.ml
      3·
      17 days ago

      hi sorry i just realized the passage you attached here repeats itself! not bad or confusing i just got halfway through the repetition before thinking “wait a minute i’ve seen this before… like two seconds ago”

    • Makan@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      2·
      16 days ago

      I am interested in doing math for fun ever since seeing an old Soviet mathematics textbook lol