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corumjhaelen
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helpman170
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On May 09 2015 20:46 corumjhaelen wrote: What field of science did you invent?Mine | ||
OtherWorld
France17333 Posts
On May 09 2015 20:40 helpman170 wrote: What is the most difficult area of science? Vexillology | ||
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farvacola
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corumjhaelen
France6884 Posts
On May 09 2015 21:04 helpman170 wrote: What field of science did you invent? Analytic and Algebraic Topology of Locally Euclidean Metrization of Infinitely Differentiable Riemannian Manifold | ||
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Cascade
Australia5405 Posts
On May 09 2015 20:40 helpman170 wrote: What is the most difficult area of science? Social sciences, of course. So hard indeed, that no one manages to study it properly. | ||
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Cascade
Australia5405 Posts
On May 09 2015 21:16 corumjhaelen wrote: Analytic and Algebraic Topology of Locally Euclidean Metrization of Infinitely Differentiable Riemannian Manifold Coincidentally, that's a special case of a course on topology I took.  although I'm not sure all the words makes sense. Too drunk. Soooo many folds!! :o | ||
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helpman170
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Cascade
Australia5405 Posts
On May 09 2015 23:45 helpman170 wrote: If you want to impress a mathematician at a party, tell him you work on the Langlands program in your sparetime. And then he will ask you follow up questions, and then you better have answers, or you will very soon look very silly. Me and a friend actually ran into impostor mathematicians a couple of times at a university bar. Claimed they were highly educated, but then when we asked them more, it turned out that didn't know anything above maths 101 or so. No idea why anyone would pull out something like that... Surely there must be better lies to come up with if you want to impress? I mean, most non-mathematicians won't be that impressed (right?), and mathematicians will reveal you. Lose-lose situation IMO. | ||
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helpman170
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On May 09 2015 23:54 Cascade wrote: And then he will ask you follow up questions, and then you better have answers, or you will very soon look very silly. Me and a friend actually ran into impostor mathematicians a couple of times at a university bar. Claimed they were highly educated, but then when we asked them more, it turned out that didn't know anything above maths 101 or so. No idea why anyone would pull out something like that... Surely there must be better lies to come up with if you want to impress? I mean, most non-mathematicians won't be that impressed (right?), and mathematicians will reveal you. Lose-lose situation IMO. You could claim that you have invented your own mathematical language to solve the problems and proceed to use this unintelligible language if questions are asked, but yeah it's a slippery slope... Also, the point of the Langlands program is that almost no mathematicians understand it. The average university professor would have to spend years to fully understand the Langlands program. | ||
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OtherWorld
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whatisthisasheep
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GreenHorizons
United States24264 Posts
On May 10 2015 00:01 helpman170 wrote: You could claim that you have invented your own mathematical language to solve the problems and proceed to use this unintelligible language if questions are asked, but yeah it's a slippery slope... The key is just to make sure there is a non-mathematician also in the conversation. Say something basic but mind blowing to them then you can walk away with your swag and pride. And the mathematician is left to either try to explain why what you said was not profound (borrrrrriiinnnggg) or just accept that you know little to nothing about math and yet you're still cooler than he or she is using math. | ||
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farvacola
United States18866 Posts
On May 10 2015 00:19 whatisthisasheep wrote: Is psychology nothing more than lazy anthropogy? Calling psychology lazy anthropology is lazier. | ||
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Epishade
United States2267 Posts
On May 09 2015 21:16 corumjhaelen wrote: Analytic and Algebraic Topology of Locally Euclidean Metrization of Infinitely Differentiable Riemannian Manifold Sounds complicated. You might want to publish this so nobody plagiarizes it. | ||
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OtherWorld
France17333 Posts
On May 10 2015 00:19 whatisthisasheep wrote: Is psychology nothing more than lazy anthropogy? Why would it be | ||
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corumjhaelen
France6884 Posts
On May 10 2015 01:35 Epishade wrote: Sounds complicated. You might want to publish this so nobody plagiarizes it. Well, I have a friend in Minsk, who has a friend in Pinsk... | ||
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puerk
Germany855 Posts
On May 09 2015 21:16 corumjhaelen wrote: Analytic and Algebraic Topology of Locally Euclidean Metrization of Infinitely Differentiable Riemannian Manifold why would you say that? smooth is always the easy stuff where nothing interesting happens.. and furthermore riemannian is also just the easiest special case of general pseudo riemannian geometry... for instance smooth lorentzian manifolds are conformally flat around the zeros of twistors but there is an explicit example in the nonsmooth case (to be more precise C^1) where there exists a twistor with a zero whose neighbourhood is not conformally flat, meaning there is an arbitrary cutoff somewhere between C^1 and C^\infty where conformal flatness around zeros of twistors becomes inevetible http://arxiv.org/pdf/math/0602622.pdf | ||
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convention
United States622 Posts
On May 10 2015 02:56 puerk wrote: why would you say that? smooth is always the easy stuff where nothing interesting happens.. and furthermore riemannian is also just the easiest special case of general pseudo riemannian geometry... for instance smooth lorentzian manifolds are conformally flat around the zeros of twistors but there is an explicit example in the nonsmooth case (to be more precise C^1) where there exists a twistor with a zero whose neighbourhood is not conformally flat, meaning there is an arbitrary cutoff somewhere between C^1 and C^\infty where conformal flatness around zeros of twistors becomes inevetible http://arxiv.org/pdf/math/0602622.pdf Hmm, author is from germany, you're from germany. Is it you? This would be like the first time ever someone claiming to know something about a topic on an internet forum actually posts proof of his knowledge. | ||
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TMG26
Portugal2017 Posts
On May 09 2015 20:40 helpman170 wrote: What is the most difficult area of science? The need to constantly publish stuff. | ||
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