Timeline for Mathematical words outside of mathematics [closed]
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| Dec 22, 2019 at 6:35 | comment | added | Gerry Myerson | @LSp it's meant to be read as "you to the power of us" and to convey the idea the we, the University, help you to be more powerful, or something. | |
| Dec 22, 2019 at 4:35 | comment | added | Alexandre Eremenko | @Robert Israel: or a point above which a nuclear explosion occurs:-) I suppose this is the reason it penetrated to the media. | |
| Dec 22, 2019 at 3:17 | comment | added | Robert Israel | @AlexandreEremenko "Epicenter" is from geology, not mathematics: it is the point on the earth's surface directly above the location of an earthquake. | |
| Dec 21, 2019 at 19:17 | comment | added | YCor | Sounds like a quite English-centered discussion, or rather chat. Little to do with mathematical research. | |
| Dec 21, 2019 at 18:06 | comment | added | LSpice | @GerryMyerson, what does it mean? I can guess “you power us”, but “1 power us”? | |
| Dec 21, 2019 at 16:57 | comment | added | Gerry Myerson | Macquarie University has the slogan (or logo, or catchphrase, or whatever), $${\rm(you)}^{\rm us}$$ Rumor has it that the original suggestion was $(1)^{\rm us}$ until someone pointed out that $1$ to any power is still $1$. | |
| Dec 21, 2019 at 16:40 | history | closed |
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| Dec 21, 2019 at 16:32 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Dec 21, 2019 at 16:21 | answer | added | Noam D. Elkies | timeline score: 5 | |
| Dec 21, 2019 at 16:18 | answer | added | Noam D. Elkies | timeline score: 2 | |
| Dec 21, 2019 at 16:09 | answer | added | Clark Kimberling | timeline score: 0 | |
| Dec 21, 2019 at 10:48 | answer | added | Gerald Edgar | timeline score: 2 | |
| Dec 21, 2019 at 10:16 | comment | added | Fedor Petrov | To differentiate tea (=re-brew). | |
| Dec 21, 2019 at 8:53 | comment | added | Mickybo Yakari | How about the famed journalistic 'angle'? | |
| Dec 21, 2019 at 8:18 | comment | added | Pietro Majer | "smooth operator"? | |
| Dec 21, 2019 at 8:08 | comment | added | Francois Ziegler | @AndySanders “Modulo” $=$ “up to”, I would say both in and out of math. | |
| Dec 21, 2019 at 7:59 | comment | added | John Stillwell | "Cusp" and "inflection point" are very common in US media. | |
| Dec 21, 2019 at 7:14 | comment | added | Francois Ziegler | @MichaelRenardy As far as I can tell, exponential can only mean $y'=ky$. Ain’t it great that we get to clear this up for (and only for) calculus students? | |
| Dec 21, 2019 at 6:55 | answer | added | Francois Ziegler | timeline score: 4 | |
| Dec 20, 2019 at 23:34 | comment | added | Michael | @MichaelRenardy, I even saw misuse of "exponential" on MathOverflow, as in "this generalization is exponentially more powerful than the original statement," although I don't recall the exact wording. | |
| Dec 20, 2019 at 23:10 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Dec 20, 2019 at 22:56 | comment | added | Alexandre Eremenko | One of the most abused words in the media is "epicenter" meaning simply center. | |
| Dec 20, 2019 at 20:35 | comment | added | Jonny Evans | My wife used to think it was funny that I used the word "nontrivial" so much, but now she does it too. | |
| Dec 20, 2019 at 17:59 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by Todd Trimble | ||
| Dec 20, 2019 at 17:55 | comment | added | Robert Israel | How about "tangent" (as in "go off on a ...") and "tangential"? | |
| Dec 20, 2019 at 17:39 | comment | added | Emil Jeřábek | Oh. Until now I actually thought that “orthogonal” was in common English usage. | |
| Dec 20, 2019 at 17:34 | comment | added | Michael Renardy | I nominate "exponential" as what may be the most misused term. | |
| Dec 20, 2019 at 17:33 | comment | added | Robert Israel | For "modulo", the OED entry provides the following non-mathematical example: 1992 Stud. Eng. Lit.: Eng. Number (Tokyo) 161 The Navajo underlying structure is identical, modulo word order, to the one found in all the languages studied in Ch. 3. | |
| Dec 20, 2019 at 17:23 | comment | added | Francesco Polizzi | I would not say that "existence proof" is "the exact opposite meaning" of "proof by explicit construction". | |
| Dec 20, 2019 at 17:17 | comment | added | Dan Piponi | I'm often entertained by the way non-mathematicians use the phrase "existence proof" with its exact opposite meaning, ie. for a construction. | |
| Dec 20, 2019 at 15:48 | comment | added | Dave L Renfro | I've seen "matrix" used in many contexts (not just for the movies), and "parallel" is used in grammar/editing contexts. | |
| Dec 20, 2019 at 15:32 | comment | added | Joseph O'Rourke | Perhaps "canonical": Meaning the most basic form (as opposed to according to canon law). | |
| Dec 20, 2019 at 15:27 | comment | added | Joseph O'Rourke | Related but almost the opposite, MESE: Examples of Mathematical Slang. | |
| Dec 20, 2019 at 15:22 | comment | added | Maxime Ramzi | @AndySanders : I use it that way too, but I must confess I've never heard anyone who didn't know some fair amount of maths use it | |
| Dec 20, 2019 at 15:21 | comment | added | lambda | @AndySanders I've certainly seen that usage of "modulo" in CS/programming contexts, but of course that's only just outside of mathematics. | |
| Dec 20, 2019 at 15:15 | comment | added | Gerhard Paseman | On matheducators.stackexchange, there is a compiled list, although meant at a more elementary level. At some point a link will be provided. Gerhard "Still Going Link Lite Presently" Paseman, 2019.12.20. | |
| Dec 20, 2019 at 15:11 | comment | added | Andy Sanders | This gives me an opportunity to ask, does anyone use the word "modulo" as a synonym for "ignoring" or "with disregard to." At some point, I convinced myself this was a usage of this term outside of mathematics, and a rather useful one, though I have yet to uncover it being used in this way outside of a mathematical context. | |
| Dec 20, 2019 at 15:05 | history | asked | Clark Kimberling | CC BY-SA 4.0 |