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So why doesn't this work?
[math]
i^2 = -1 = (-i)^2
[/math]
So
[math]
\sqrt{-1} = \sqrt{i^2} = i
[/math]
and
[math]
\sqrt{-1} = \sqrt{(-i)^2} = -i
[/math]
Hence
[math]
i = -i
[/math]

>>accepted applicants will be notified by March 2020

>less than 1 week left of March
>committee probably can't even meet to finalize their decision because of corona-chan

reeeeee just tell me whether I've been accepted or not

>>8379998
>mfw Fourier transforming functions not generally in L^2
>mfw discarding infinite constants such as a trace over the identity on an infinitely dimensional Hilbert space
>mfw treating renormalization group flow as a group action even though renormalization "group" is not strictly a group
>mfw writing down a Hamiltonian flow for an in general symplectically non-invariant Lagrangian
SOMEBODY FUCKING STOP ME REEEEE