grey

I handed in my thesis a few days ago and I've always wanted to make a longer post about what it is about. But also I know that most people on here that I interact with are not mathematicians and those who are are probably not set theorists. So if I just told you "It's about how you can prove the relative consistency with ZFC of the splitting number being strictly less than the bounding number using a finite support iteration of Laver forcing with the Frechet filter of length ω₂" then that wouldn't mean anything to anyone reading this. It certainly wouldn't have meant anything to me a year ago.

So how about I leave out the details and talk big picture. I hope this will be accessible to anyone with high school-level math knowledge and curiosity to learn more about it. I'll tag this and all subsequent posts in this series with # grey's thesis explained

the new tom7 video is soo good 👀

the hard thing about naming something in science is that you have to name it at the point when you first observe it... which is when you have the least amount of information you will ever have

• "dark" matter
• "anti"matter
• most physics terms actually
• every research paper repo I've ever created
• slack channel names
• category theory
• linear algebra
• complex numbers ( I find them quite simple actually )
• generation names
  please share your own

yeah. “complex” numbers is a bad term because people hear it and already think they won’t understand them ._.
also “real” numbers because there’s nothing real about them we made them all up :D