Best Books for Learning Topology by [[The Math Sorcerer]]

Some heavy math shaming at the start of this video... ugh.

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Hutchins seems to indicate that the "vicious specialization of scholarship" is in part to blame for the emergence of the "two cultures" delineated by C. P. Snow later in the decade.

When it all boils down, this section doesn't alleviate the fear of not having enough money. Instead, it is telling you that you shouldn't have this fear in the first place, because you're wrong to think you need more money.

Christianity is very good at blaming the victim for their own problems.

https://www.amazon.com/Danica-McKellar-4-Book-Math-Set/dp/B00KMZL49E/

While targeted at young girls and meant to empower them, there's a hint of math shaming in Danica McKellar's math books, particularly "Math Doesn't Suck." While trying to flip the script, the title tacitly acknowledges that everyone thinks "math sucks". Why not start from a wholly positive framing rather than ceding the opposite's argument from the start?

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=math+for+dummies&i=stripbooks&crid=89N2XQ5IZTX1&sprefix=math+for+dummies%2Cstripbooks%2C117&ref=nb_sb_noss_1

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=math+demystified&i=stripbooks&crid=UM15P2ZTY84C&sprefix=math+demystified%2Cstripbooks%2C137&ref=nb_sb_noss_2

A whole series of books from McGraw Hill whose titles all carry an implicit math shaming. Who wants to carry these books around and be seen reading them? Even the word DeMYSTiFieD on the cover is written in CLoWn case.

• Business Math Demystified
• Dosage Calculations and Basic Math for Nurses Demystified
• Geometry Demystified
• Business Calculus Demystified
• Math Word Problems Demystified
• Everyday Math Demystified
• Discrete Mathematics Demystified
• Math Proofs Demystified
• Pre-Algebra Demystified

https://news.yahoo.com/mathematician-tiktok-gives-example-insane-192823997.html

A sad, but subtle bit of math shaming going on here. Worse it's indicating that math is hard for even the elite without providing proper context.

Studies have shown that humans are highly selective about whom they choose to imitate. Children up to age seven show a propensity to imitate their parents over strangers and after that they primarily imitate people who have shown themselves to be knowledgeable and competent within an area of expertise.

This has applications to teaching with respect to math shaming. A teacher who says that math is personally hard for them is likely to be signaling to students that what they're teaching is not based on experience and expertise and thus demotivating the student from following and imitating their example.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/28/nyregion/steven-strogatz-sundays.html

Nice to see the normalization of math and a mathematician without any math shaming in sight.

I'm more curious to hear about his Mondays or Tuesdays...

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/10/new-puritans-mob-justice-canceled/619818/

Anne Applebaum looks at the ideas of public humiliation and cancel culture as a potential slippery slope toward authoritarianism. She provides numerous examples of people experiencing forms of cancel culture without any arguments for or against them, but instead explores the cultural space around it and what its consequences might possibly be.

Many of her examples focus on spaces related to academia rather than broader life, a space which needs further exploration as the scope and shape for those may differ dramatically.

She also brings up the broad phenomenon of "university justice" (my descriptor) and generally secret tribunals and justice administered by them rather than traditional governmental means.

This brings up some excellent avenues for thought about who we are as a country and a liberal democracy.

Highly recommend.

How are these cases being played out differently in the social (and social media) sphere without the ability to confront your accusers with an idea of due process?

A confounding factor also seems to be the punishment of dragging the case out for extended period of time.

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/15/magazine/how-one-stupid-tweet-ruined-justine-saccos-life.html

Love, or recognizing the other person in the other tribe as sacred, is going to connect with that person because we are, after all, all of us are human INTERbeings, and love is the affective variable that connects us while shame is a variable that DISconnects us. Love is , in fact, one of our most powerful common human denominators.

But let's also be aware of the all-too-prevalent math shaming that occurs when we say "math is difficult". That definitely isn't productive.

https://postphd.letterdrop.com/p/38953780.the-venn-diagram-of-white-privilege

San Franciscans are mask shaming others for not wearing them outside despite recent changes in guidance by the CDC.

The problem here is the "if" you're fully vaccinated part, which 50% or more likely still haven't done, but are going maskless anyway.

It's supremely sad that a paper in Nature should "math shame" ergodic theory this way. What the hell is going on?

Marcus, J. (2020, May 11). Quarantine Fatigue Is Real. The Atlantic. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/05/quarantine-fatigue-real-and-shaming-people-wont-help/611482/

Kelly, J. (2020, July 2). In defence of the U-turn – in politics and life. https://www.ft.com/content/f34fbf9e-81ee-4a0d-ae12-c236828b5c91

I wonder what the connection is between this term and the dish?