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Founder of the Secret Society of Mathematicians
Anti-Globalism suggests an article at Science News on the passing of Henri Cartan, one of the founding members of a strange and influential group of French mathematicians in the twentieth century. "In the 1930s, a group of young French mathematicians led an uprising that revolutionized mathematics. France had lost most of a generation in the First World War, so the emerging hotshots in mathematics had few elders to look up to. And when these radicals did look up, they didn't like what they saw. The practice of mathematics at the time was dry, scattered and muddled, they believed, in need of reinvention and invigoration... Using the nom de plume Nicolas Bourbaki (after a dead Napoleonic general), they wrote a series of textbooks laying out mathematics the right way. Though the young mathematicians started out only intending to write a good textbook for analysis..., they ended up creating dozens of volumes which formed a manifesto for a new philosophy of mathematics. The last of the founders of Bourbaki, Henri Cartan, died August 13 at age 104... Two of his students won the Fields medal..., one won the Nobel Prize in physics and another won the economics Nobel."
Attach the stone of triumph!
Es dry and scataired. We shall revolutionise thees field, for what is pi without a nice sauce? Later we shall riot in the street over the suspension of sauce for our pi.
"Secret society" is a bit over the top! I always had the impression it had the feeling more of a running joke; from the article:
Though it wasn't *just* a joke--they wrote a lot of very serious mathematics!
I don't want to get off on a tangent, but the whole group seem kind of irrational.
How does someone become a member of this finite group? Do they have to stand in the middle while the rest of them form a perfect square around them? I wonder if they have to hide their identity?
oh well, at least at the end there's pi!
Well, back to rejecting software patent applications.
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They made Steve Guttenberg a star.
Who??
You just got troll'd!
The He-Man-Godel-Hating Club!
"From steadily fucking," eh? Well, sir -- I wish I had YOUR problems.
Imagine them finding an equation to discover the solution for all the problems of the world, and then the awkard silence as it turns out to be 42.
Dedicated to the ongoing fight against the "show your work" admonitions of math teachers everywhere.
Have gnu, will travel.
The guy just died, so they're copyrighted for only another 70 years. See how well it works?
The following examples may help to clarify the difference between the new and old math.
1960: A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is 4/5 of this price. What is his profit?
1970 (Traditional math): A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is $80. What is his profit?
1975 (New Math): A logger exchanges a set L of lumber for a set M of money. The cardinality of set M is 100 and each element is worth $1.
(a) make 100 dots representing the elements of the set M
(b) The set C representing costs of production contains 20 fewer points than set M. Represent the set C as a subset of the set M.
(c) What is the cardinality of the set P of profits?
1990 (Dumbed-down math): A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is $80 and his profit is $20. Underline the number 20.
1997 (Whole Math): By cutting down a forest full of beautiful trees, a logger makes $20.
(a) What do you think of this way of making money?
(b) How did the forest birds and squirrels feel?
(c) Draw a picture of the forest as you'd like it to look.
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Prime UID Club
DON'T KNOW IF TROLL.
Imagine wanting to write it down but finding that the margin of the book you're using is way too small...
Besides, the solution for (and cause of) all the problems of the world is beer!
The first rule of the He-Man-Godel-Hating Club is you do not talk about the He-Man-Godel-Hating Club!
The first rule of clubs is that whenever anyone mentions any club you claim that its first two rules match those of the Fight Club!
Justice is the sheep getting arrested while an impartial judge declares the vote void.