Mathematics has many daughters. Nearly all are beautiful. Physics & Chemistry are dutiful & visit home often. Life science is always away on some exotic research trip, hardly has time to write. Three of the girls live at home: Statistics, Computer Science ... & The Other One.
Statistics spent some time in a sanitarium, no one talks about it. She's doing better now, dotes on mother. Computer Science puts on a suit each day for her Big Important Job. But she still never moved out. 1/ #ideas
It really seems like only three women live at the house, but there is another.
Economics raids mother's closet (mathematics) and plays dress up stomping around in her most fancy and intimidating notation with none of her precision or grace.
It would be cute, but Economics is pushing 100, feral, and lives in the walls. 2/
Computer Science, the youngest daughter, has some disturbing, mostly repressed memories about playing with "the lady in the wall" when she was little. She shudders to think how she used to look up to the strange and often unkind creature.
But she also still loves her sister maybe more than anyone. Though being quite cold and detached in manner she has no idea how to help her.
Economics doesn't want to be helped. She doesn't want to get "better."
She wants to get WORSE. 3/3 #math
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Computer Science eventually falls in love with Fine Arts. She was afraid to tell her mother at first, but mother was entirely supportive of the match. CS moved in with Fine Arts. It’s a happy relationship inside the walls, but people outside don’t understand. They keep shipping her with MBA down the street. She sees MBA all day at work, and they get things done, but there’s no romantic spark there. Only her close friends understand.
The first time Fine Arts came to the house for the holidays with Computer Science, Economics surprised her in the guest bathroom and bit her. She and Computer Science had to spend most of the holiday at the emergency room getting rabies and tetanus shots.
Computer Science finally opened up about her childhood and it made them a lot closer.
@futurebird @inthehands Awesome. I have a background in math, tho I've worked in software my adult life, now my kids are grown I'm getting a masters in .. maths. My wife had a PhD in physics (and mocks all the care my classes take to prove calculus true) but is an artist now, abstract expressionism with painting at the moment. Of all of them, I believe mathematics is the one with the most purely joyous experiences.
Pure mathematics is truly one of the fine arts and loves to play a lot.
Her favourite game is dress up as serious science.
@mina @jayalane @inthehands She & Computer Science are constantly squabbling over ‘who carries on mother’s legacy best.’ They are incredibly similar in temperament (often confused with each other as children.) Statistics has tried to enter the argument saying she too carrie’s on the legacy— but, her two younger sisters just laugh at her. Pure Mathematics is very fond of playing pranks. It can be a little exhausting putting up with her.
@futurebird eventually they’ll figure out that Computer Science has a split personality, one side almost the same as Pure Math, the other side they’ll say is like Applied Math but very disorganized because they won’t admit how much that side is like Economics but focused on building Rube Goldberg machines
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Statistics slips out at night to don a mask and become "Data Science", her alternate identity. For some reason a lot of people are fooled by this.
@passenger @futurebird @mina @jayalane @inthehands yup, she ain't no superhero . . .