The Finite Simple Group (of Order Two) open thread
Yes, it's a song about math. Yes, it's a song about relationships. Yes, it's totally awesome.
By Jeff Emanuel Posted in Math | Miscellanea — Comments (13) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
If you can understand this, then you need to empty your head of some of that ed-joo-kay-shun.
:-)
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anymore. All these guys need are sliderules.
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CongressCritter™: Never have so few felt like they were owed so much by so many for so little.
Me? Hey, liberal arts all the way, baby.
The Fuzzy Puppy of the VRWC. I've been usurped!
Wow. Loved it.
“It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.”"-Max Planck
Now see, there's something very pure and beautiful about that. I'm personally very pleased to see that some of our best math nerds can clean themselves up and sing so well that they don't find themselves moaning alone in a singularity. ;)
Of course, nobody knows what's happened to a New Kind of Science. Maybe this is it. :)
That you can still impress the (right kind of) girls if you follow this link and know how to explain an Acme Klein Bottle. Cliff Stoll will thank you, and the rest of the site is fantastic, too.
I don't have a proper and rigorous proof for it, but I have long believed that government spending is in fact the popular representation of a zero-volume bottle and a one-sided surface.
But that's just me.
Forwarded and thank you.
Maybe the instructions for world domination are embedded in the lyrics...heck if I know.
J.
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"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
-Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, No. 4, 1777
I am touched, in a special way.
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Gone 2500 years, still not PC.
Haha... thanks for the giggle. :)
I'm wiping tears from my eyes.
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We are all heroes, you and Boo and I. Hamsters and rangers everywhere, rejoice!
and yes, I understood it...that's what I get for being a math grad student...
"Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first."
Ronald Reagan

That was hot