Timeline for Colloquial catchy statements encoding serious mathematics
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| Jun 5, 2016 at 7:03 | comment | added | bubba | I heard this in a Monty Python sketch. But I don't suppose they were thinking about non-commutative geometries or quantum mechanics. | |
| Apr 30, 2015 at 20:34 | comment | added | isomorphismes | I like it as a way to explain cohomology on a closed circuit graph, as an alternative to exactness ⇒ Green's theorem. | |
| Aug 8, 2012 at 23:44 | comment | added | Jon Paprocki | interpretation in terms of noncommutative geometry can be found at physik.uni-regensburg.de/forschung/krey/papkre0 | |
| Aug 8, 2012 at 23:44 | comment | added | Jon Paprocki | It is not a perfect analogy, but I think that the intuition built from this statement helps to understand something like the Aharanov-Bohm effect in quantum mechanics. In this case, the quantum phase of a particle moving from point A to point B depends on the path taken to get there. So if we wave our hands and replace 'phase' with 'altitude', then we could imagine that there are two different paths from A to B, one which is 'uphill' and one which is 'downhill'. And so you might have a notion of walking uphill to school both ways. A quick introduction to the Aharanov-Bohm effect and its | |
| Aug 5, 2012 at 21:52 | comment | added | André Henriques | Sorry. I really don't understand... | |
| Jul 4, 2012 at 18:19 | history | answered | Jon Paprocki | CC BY-SA 3.0 |