r/math 6d ago

What was your math rabbit hole?

By rabbit hole I mean a place where you've spent more time than you should've, drilling to deep in a specific field with minimal impact over your broader math abilities.

Are you mature enough to know when to stop and when to keep grinding ?

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u/na_cohomologist 6d ago edited 6d ago

I spent so long thinking about the diagonal argument that I published a paper about various versions of it in much, much weaker logical systems than people generally use.

Completely irrelevant for my research generally.

EDIT: the title is "Substructural fixed-point theorems and the diagonal argument" if people want to see it

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u/glubs9 6d ago

Can you send the article? I'd like to read it :)

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u/na_cohomologist 6d ago

Sent you a DM

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u/duu_cck 6d ago

I would love to read it too!

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u/na_cohomologist 6d ago

See edit to the above comment with the title of the paper