Homotopy Theory Is My Personality

Hi! My name is Jason Ah! Nice to meet you, Jason Jason FRIENDS FAMILY HOMOTOPY THEORY Say Jarvis, Did you know that the natural numbers were a mistake and we should have been working over the sphere spectrum? Any stable ∞-cate?

A four-panel comic shows a person introducing himself as Jason, while another person presents a book labeled “HOMOTOPY THEORY” to a friend and family member. The final panel jokingly replaces ordinary small talk with an extremely specialized question about stable homotopy theory, making the character’s mathematical obsession their defining personality trait. It is used as a reaction by mathematicians, especially algebraic topologists, to joke about bringing advanced mathematics into casual conversation.

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