Collection of Lame Jokes

[WWGD]

Probably taken care of by essential workers.

Newton? In 1600s UK?

 

[fresh_42]

... Isaac Newton invented calculus during the plague...

It's amazing how much you can get done when no one's interrupting you, and there's just a deathly silence all around.

Relax, he only wanted to improve his horoscopes.

 

[WWGD]

Relax, he only wanted to improve his horoscopes.

Pretty likely, as he was into this occult, or at least " occultish" type concerns.

 

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[DennisN]

Tough rules here:

 

[WWGD]

Tough rules here:

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Sartre center parking lot?

 

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[DennisN]

 

[Ibix]

That one took me a while...

Loading Artist is pretty good. Here's another one I had to think about for a couple of seconds.

 

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[berkeman]

How to not introduce a subject in a nutshell.

Reminds me of a part of an early chapter in a Fourier Analysis reference that I'm studying for a new project at my work. I'm enjoying these lecture notes quite a bit, and the mix of informal professor comments with very helpful practical technical development is refreshing.

https://bookstore.ams.org/amstext-33/

Other directions combine tools from Fourier analysis with symmetries of the objects being analyzed. This might make you think of crystals and crystallography, and you’d be right, while mathematicians think of number theory and Fourier analysis on groups.

Finally, I have to mention that in the purely mathematical realm the question of convergence of Fourier series, believe it or not, led G. Cantor near the turn of the 20th century to investigate and invent the theory of infinite sets, and to distinguish different sizes of infinite
sets, all of which led to Cantor going insane.

 

[strangerep]

How to not introduce a subject in a nutshell.

As a result of this post,... (TIL) that Paul Ehrenfest's final years were even sadder.

From Wikipedia:

From the correspondence with his close friends, from May 1931, it appears that Ehrenfest suffered from severe depression. [...]

[...] on 25 September 1933, in Amsterdam, Ehrenfest fatally shot his younger son Wassik, who had Down syndrome, then killed himself.

 

[strangerep]

[...] all of which led to Cantor going insane.

It's disappointing that someone could make a joke like that (sigh).

I just read the Wikipedia entry on Georg Cantor. It sounds more like he became deeply depressed because of long interaction with other mathematicians who couldn't appreciate his (vast body of important, before-its-time) work.

 

[WWGD]

 

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[WWGD]

It's disappointing that someone could make a joke like that (sigh).

I just read the Wikipedia entry on Georg Cantor. It sounds more like he became deeply depressed because of long interaction with other mathematicians who couldn't appreciate his (vast body of important, before-its-time) work.

I understand much of that came from Kronecker.

 

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[fresh_42]

 

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[Borg]

Was that a Word doc?

 

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[WWGD]

The strong, silent type:

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

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Carry on!

 

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[WWGD]

Maybe they can use these for their driver's licenses:

 

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[strangerep]

[tennis players trying to be telekinetic...] Maybe they can use these for their driver's licenses:

Some of these could be used as "before" photos in laxative commercials. Heaven knows, I've sometimes wished I had such telekinetic power when trying to,... er,... dislodge stubborn objects.