Timeline for What are some examples of colorful language in serious mathematics papers?
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| Apr 25, 2010 at 1:21 | comment | added | Yemon Choi | This is off-topic, but the remarks about "epinglage" versus "pinning" reminded me: has anyone followed the grumbly remarks in Lang's Algebra and tried to use the terminology of "(co)eraseable resolutions" in homological algebra? | |
| Apr 24, 2010 at 19:05 | comment | added | Will Jagy | You made the effort, that's what counts in the end. | |
| Apr 24, 2010 at 8:22 | comment | added | Kevin Buzzard | My girlfriend is a surgeon and once a month our copy of "Endoscopy" drops through the post box. I tried to out-do her recently by sitting on the sofa reading a paper of Waldspurger about "twisted endoscopy" and she suggested he was doing it wrong. | |
| Apr 24, 2010 at 1:58 | comment | added | Will Jagy | I sent a bunch of information on James Arthur and endoscopy to a high-school classmate who is a gastroenterologist. As near as I can tell he never got any amusement out of it. I also sent him a copy of the book "Communion" by Whitley Streiber, which seems to be the source of the idea that aliens visiting from distant galaxies like to, well, examine us. Same outcome. | |
| Apr 23, 2010 at 19:53 | history | edited | Sean Rostami | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Apr 23, 2010 at 19:47 | history | answered | Sean Rostami | CC BY-SA 2.5 |