Ask on behalf of my math friend re: mathweave (which tbc I am also obsessed with I just don't have the background to understand all of it):
hello! friend here! i feel the need to disclaim that "autistic math major" may have oversold my understanding of math a little.. i'm a stat major and my calc skill is mid at best despite loving it soooo so much. so i'm prob missing nuances. but my GOD the use of it as a metaphor for the way kujen instrumentalizes + dehumanizes jedao was so perfect. i yelped ALOUD when i got to the integral under the "i'm your gun" excerpt. jedao 2 isn't the original curve but behaves the same way and that's what matters to kujen far more than those pesky constants that get erased when u take a derivative. applying a mathematician's eye for simplistic beauty to The Mind Of A Real Human Person is totally exactly what kujen does. jedao is presented as simplifyable, derivable, integratable from the start vs kujen whose graph is not a function Until he does psych surgery on himself. but being the math is a choice kujen intentionally makes whereas jedao doesnt understand it and therefore cant escape that framework, like that jedao2 voidmoth (btw i love the scared jedao2 eyes in the wings) pinned to the paper by pins that are themselves vectors (wow....). ill shut up now but its just all really good. also the drawing of kujen holding jedao right at the end is sooooo beautiful and so evil 👍 great work
YES YEAH YEAHHHHHH. I'm so enamoured by everyone's interpretation of this specific page. I will post a fuller director's cut explanation of some narrative bits later, but another thing that may have been missed: In this section, tying into the theme of reexpression, we shift from Cartesian coordinates to polar/spherical/cylinderical as we introduce Jedao 2. This is a nod to the fact that this is Je2, not Jedao, (who we established page 2 is associated with Cartesian coordinates). For the non math viewer this would've been signaled with Je2s papers being torn up versions of Jedao's, but the narrative is carried deeper in the math too!
The moth, by the way, is Kujen. Insect pins = the silver lances + look at his eyes going wide here :)