As suggested by the
arxiv.org administrators, i've been thinking a lot about the recent events and "Black Lives Matter" movement. Here are my thoughts:
a lot of inequalities can be summarised as "an expression with some stuff >= an expression involving same stuff, but more mixed with each other"
to name a few examples:
- any muirhead inequality, the simplest of which is
- simple polynomial inequalities such as for x, y, z nonnegative
- any holder type inequality, the simplest of which is the cauchy-schwarz
- the definition of paranormal operator on a Hilbert space: an operator is called paranormal if for all .
i cannot help but make the connection: these inequalities say that (race) mixing is bad, it's better to stay separated - say what you want but the structure of mathematics is inherently racist. the XIX-XX century white male mathematicians might have been subconsciously motivated by their racial beliefs while coming up with those results
