Oct. 15: YES!

Heretical Rants · Joined: 21 Jul 2009 Posts: 5250 Location: No.

Niels Henrik Abel

ya got yer abelian groups, yer abelian theorems, yer abelian surfaces, etc etc

also, if you come up with anything new that seems like it might be analogous to commutativity, you could probably get away with calling it "abelian," at least until the next mathematician to use it starts using your name to describe it, at which point you just give up and start telling people that your favorite snack when you're commuting to work is abelian grapes

and that's just a sad place to be

so the moral of the story is `don't invent new maths`
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Moor · Joined: 07 May 2013 Posts: 318

Oh yeah, I didn't explain the pun.

an Abelian croup = a commutitive group --> "Abelian" == "commutitive" --> "Abel" == "commute" --> "Abel-ing" == "commuting".

Inventing new maths is the best! You're starting with basically nothing, so the only way to go is in this sort of twisty-weird way that just barely avoids touching on algebraic geometry and category theory twice!
And then even though it's logically derived from your axioms, you'll still confuse your fellow mathematicians enough that one of them will write Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass.

There is a -10% chance that this post makes sense, but it let me link to John Baez, so it was worth it.

Heretical Rants · Joined: 21 Jul 2009 Posts: 5250 Location: No.

way to overexplain your own joke
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Moor · Joined: 07 May 2013 Posts: 318

See math people, above.

Heretical Rants · Joined: 21 Jul 2009 Posts: 5250 Location: No.

next I'm going to have to yell at you for confusing Halloween with Christmas
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Heretical Rants · Joined: 21 Jul 2009 Posts: 5250 Location: No.

31 Oct = 25 Dec
hurhurhur yuk
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stripeypants · Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2013 5:13 am Post subject:

I am slowly but surely turning Christmas into Halloween. Soon Christmas will be nothing but a backdoor out of the holiday season, emptying into the gift shop that is New Year's Day.
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Echo · Joined: 18 Jul 2013 Posts: 456

Moor · Joined: 07 May 2013 Posts: 318

I've seen that! It's so pretty! I want to find some sort of class or series of lectures about it, because yeah!

Here, look at this -- http://homotopytypetheory.org/ .
It looks at theorems and axioms and stuff from a topological perspective. I don't honestly understand it that much -- I have the pdf, but I haven't gotten very far into it...

Darqcyde · Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2013 5:44 pm Post subject: