by idlip on 5/29/2025, 3:29:33 PM
by scaradim on 5/30/2025, 2:24:33 PM
Just to motivate your team: a mathematician just became the President of Romania this month - https://www.imo-official.org/participant_r.aspx?id=1571 :-)
by ivan_ah on 5/29/2025, 4:03:28 PM
Nice to see adults (re)learning math. It's one of the rare subjects that are guaranteed to provide "knowledge buzz" and also widely applicable.
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by Avicebron on 5/29/2025, 10:59:28 PM
I don't know why but actually rendering the equations (mathjax? didn't check) is such an eye-catching way to see those problems in a feed like that, and having it almost mimic HN with a comment section is awesome. This is super cool!
by mtts on 5/29/2025, 4:16:15 PM
Super cool! Where did you get the problems from?
by ping00 on 5/30/2025, 2:59:37 AM
Good luck Vivek, this looks really nice! I was in Bangalore for the first time this Feb and had a great time. You should check out Mecca cafe, it's thoda grimy but a total vibe.
by nxobject on 5/29/2025, 9:23:16 PM
What a fantastic idea – I know I got the most out of my college math classes collaborating on homework – well, I really only survived because of collaboration. Learning math has been inseparable from collaboration since Ethen.
by seanhunter on 5/29/2025, 5:53:35 PM
As someone who is studying maths myself I absolutely love this- What a great idea.
by thuruv on 5/30/2025, 3:46:13 PM
Kudos., Personalizing problems to familiar places hitting a nostalgic sweet spot for me.. Reminds me how much fun it used to be and creative math gets when you’re bouncing ideas around..
by ashutosh-mishra on 5/30/2025, 4:01:07 AM
Best! Great way to connect with interesting people!
What's your criteria for letting people in? Like what should be the minimum level of maths skills they should already have?
by jak6jak on 5/31/2025, 5:05:46 AM
I want to create my own club in a small town. Not necessary in math but in gamedev. How did you get people to show up for the first meeting?
by wanderingmind on 5/30/2025, 4:26:58 AM
Awesome initiative. For people not physically in Bangalore, maybe start a discord and we can asynchronously try to work through problems and get support
by dmd on 5/29/2025, 11:29:26 PM
No matter how many times I do number 20, I end up with 615. Am I wrong, or is the solution sheet wrong?
by trueismywork on 5/30/2025, 12:11:00 PM
Rope in people from TIFR and IISC and ISI, they have a lot of activities going on like this.
by kylehotchkiss on 5/29/2025, 4:42:07 PM
This looks like a really great way to make some new friends and challenge each other. Have fun!!
by alecst on 5/29/2025, 9:44:41 PM
Love this. Anyone know of something similar in NYC? Casual, unpretentious math club?
by agcat on 5/29/2025, 7:51:50 PM
Love the idea. All the best!
by lolu_plan on 6/7/2025, 1:34:50 AM
how can I join this ?
by tines on 5/29/2025, 10:56:39 PM
Anything like this in Austin?
by vivzkestrel on 5/29/2025, 5:23:10 PM
if you guys ever do this in mumbai, i ll happily join ya
by dgfitz on 5/30/2025, 1:26:56 AM
Why has this been on the front page all day?
This is nice. You can spread the word to r/bangalore and related subs. But sure small communities sound like more fun than a big one.
Are many of them programmers/techie or academicians?