Life Thru Book

@fermatslibrary Being close doesn’t count in mathematics. One missing step and the credit goes to someone who took it all the way.

A near-miss in math: Roger Cotes in 1716, while investigating the surface area of an ellipsoid, found the following expression: log(cosφ + isinφ) = iφ. Had he exponentiated that formula and today Euler's Identity could be known as Cotes Identity.

@archi_tradition Budapest. It’s one of those cities that doesn’t need hype.

What is your favorite capital city in Europe?

@goodreads "The Lord of the Rings" by J. R. R. Tolkien. Without Sam, there would be no Frodo.

Which book perfectly captures friendship?

@Math_files Mathematics is a language that became a tool.

Should mathematics be considered a language or a tool? ✍️

Socrates never wrote a single book. Not one. Everything we know about him comes from the people who spent time with him, especially his student Plato, who wrote down his conversations. Socrates didn’t see himself as a teacher who gives answers. Instead, he asked questions, simple ones that slowly exposed how little people actually understood. He believed that real wisdom begins when you admit you don’t know. He spent his days talking to people in public places, markets, streets, wherever he could find a conversation. No classroom, no notes, no formal system. Just thinking out loud with others. And still, thousands of years later, he is remembered as one of the greatest philosophers ever. No books. Just ideas that refused to die.

@PhysInHistory No one knows for sure. But I think it's fundamental and even simple systems have tiny bits of experience.

Is consciousness just brain activity or a fundamental trait of the universe? ✍️

Fyodor Dostoevsky was once sentenced to death. He was taken to the execution ground, made to stand in front of a firing squad and in the last moment, the order was changed. He was spared. After that, everything changed. He had already faced death. So his writing became deeper, darker, and more honest. He started writing about fear, guilt, suffering, and meaning in a way very few people could. Books like Crime and Punishment don’t just tell a story. They feel like someone who has looked at death and come back to explain life.

@RaminNasibov The ability to be bored. We've so many options now and I think that's keeping us away from independent thinking.

What's one thing technology took from us quietly?

@abakcus It really is. It feels less like calculation, and more like discovering something that was quietly waiting there all along.

The Gaussian Integral is like pure art!

Friedrich Nietzsche had a brutal idea: Morality is not truth. It’s something people created. And not everyone created it equally.

@fermatslibrary That’s how sensitive mathematics is: tiny tweaks, completely different worlds.

This is the only solution to a² + b³ = c⁷ in positive integers

@Math_files He proved that solving the problem was enough. Most people chase recognition. He solved one of the hardest problems in history and walked away.”

Grigori Perelman stunned the world by solving the century-old Poincaré Conjecture—then refusing its rewards. He declined the prestigious Fields Medal and he turned down the $1,000,000 Millennium Prize from the Clay Mathematics Institute. Perelman rejected fame and money, citing dissatisfaction with academic ethics and a lack of interest in recognition. Choosing a quiet, reclusive life in Russia, he remains a rare figure who proved that the pursuit of truth can matter more than glory.

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What's everyone reading this weekend?

@readswithravi "The Stranger" by Albert Camus. I think, this one's going to stay in my head for a very long time.

What’s one book you keep thinking about long after finishing it?

@PhysInHistory It's possible. But whether this is base reality or a simulation, you still have to live it the same way.

Could the entire universe be one massive, cosmic computer simulation? ✍️

Nietzsche wasn’t saying "be evil." He was asking something uncomfortable: Are you really a good person… or just someone who was taught to stay small?

Over time, this became normal. Being quiet = good Being obedient = good Not standing out = good And anything powerful started to look "wrong."

Plato had a controversial idea: Democracy doesn’t fail overnight. It slowly destroys itself. Sounds extreme but hear this out.