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Pure Math, Pure Joy

Posted by michael on from the msri-loves-company dept.

e271828 writes "The New York Times is carrying a nice little piece entitled Pure Math, Pure Joy about the beauty and applicability of pure math as carried out at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute. There is an accompanying slideshow of pictures of mathematicians in action; I particularly loved the picture titled Waging Mental Battle with a Proof."

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  1. Milking Theory by Chromodromic · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    There's four links to two sites. This is called "Milking Theory", where for every set L of sites there exists 2^L links that may be made in a Slashdot post.

    In "Milking Theory" if a 2^L solution is constructed, the post is said to be "milked". It is only possible to exceed 2^L links on rare occasions, and then the post is said to either be "Microsofted" or "SCOed" depending on the nature of the post itself.

    Milking Theory is most commonly researched and practices by a group of theoreticians known as "Karma Whores".

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  2. nice... by Quai · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    HTML in the topic is a nice touch... :)

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