caranmegil

@caranmegil@sencha.house

I am a nerd like my father before me.

I like 🍵, 🌶, 🎲, and 🖥. I am a technologist with an MBA attempting to migrate away from coding as a profession.

I also write on the side when time allows.

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futurebird , to random
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Does anyone know of a good book or biography of Cantor? I've always found the way his struggles with mental illness were discussed to be a little ... flip.

"He thought about infinity too much and went CRAZY"

It's reductive, and plays into the mystique and fear-mongering around mathematics. (That acts as a kind of gatekeeping and is bad.) While stigmatizing and abstracting mental illness.

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caranmegil ,

@futurebird i remember learning about cantor with my undergraduate informatics degree. however, learning he has probably been diagnosed with "cyclic manic depression" (bipolar disorder in modern terms) makes me feel more connected considering i know of another historically important person had what i had. thank you for bringing this up and i'll keep an eye out for any good biographies on him.

caranmegil , to random

@dansup glad to see https://fediverse.info/ is still alive and strong

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