tom h, autumn fan 🍂 @tomharris@mastodon.social

I'm back in #southampton this week, haunting the maths dept

per hashtag request, and since I've not done an #introduction for a while; I'm #tom, one of the 90% of mastodon users called tom. I like #maths (or #math if you like), #books, #hiking, #running and #oats. I work in #publishing in #Cambridge. I am a #man who wishes he wasn't losing his #hair

nice

The final Blackadder is a legitimately affecting bit of TV, but the BBC account trotting out a tweet where they pretend to be a millennial sharing their feelings on remembrance day feels pretty unpleasant

Starting a triphop parody/covers band called Minehead

actually the story is quite heartwarming, what a mean toot I just did https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-46029562

you're going to have to narrow it down a bit

cool, looks like I'm going to Munich for a few days next month. I get to buy my Zuckerhut after all

“advanced, creative horniness”

lmao

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Really should buy Owen Hatherly's book but 592 pages, man....

reading that dylan thomas banger and thinking, how *can* my words fork lightning?

I’ve been trying to write some popular maths at the level between recreational/historical stuff and just a textbook, and it’s really hard! On the one hand I want to get the great ideas across without losing people, on the other the only foolproof way to make sure they understand everything is...write a textbook

the foundations of mathematics listserv is a wonderful place

learned today that the original Greek ‘cosmos’ is the opposite of ‘chaos’: it implies order and complexity. According to Wikipedia it retains these connotations when used to describe the universe, but I’ve never understood it that way: ‘universe’ is the banal term, ‘cosmos’ the fantastical one. At the very least the order interpretation makes ‘cosmic horror’ a misnomer.

a baffling "see also" section

"Among other things, he proclaimed that the geometry of imaginary numbers predicted by the theory of relativity for a body moving faster than light is the geometry of the Kingdom of God. For mentioning the Kingdom of God in that work, he was accused of agitation by Soviet authorities. "

this dude seems like a boss
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavel_Florensky