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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. Hehe by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Did he just eat my balls?

  2. slideshow pictures by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Whatever happened to 'working it out with a pencil' ?

  3. fp? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Did i get it? AHHH!!!! did i get it?

  4. first post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    rawr

  5. TEH FIRST POST IS MINE!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    STEP ASIDE LOOSERS!!!

  6. my cock is pure joy, too by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    o m f g

  7. 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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  8. i guess that explains by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    all those orgasms i had while doing math homework.

    1. Re:i guess that explains by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
      that's because i was going down on you jenna!

      -bree

  9. MOD PARENT DOWN, DONT CLICK LINK by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This is a nasty picture thats been posted on Slashdot before

    1. Re:MOD PARENT DOWN, DONT CLICK LINK by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      you know you want to.

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

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

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  11. Re:Is this really true? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Ferris Bueller:
    Cameron has never been in love -- at least, nobody's ever been in love with him. If things don't change for him, he's gonna marry the first girl he lays, and she's gonna treat him like shit, because she will have given him what he has built up in his mind as the end-all, be-all of human existence. She won't respect him, 'cause you can't respect somebody who kisses your ass. It just doesn't work.