Timeline for Colloquial catchy statements encoding serious mathematics
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| Jun 23 at 14:03 | history | edited | Martin Sleziak | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
http -> https (the question was bumped anyway)
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| Feb 14, 2016 at 14:48 | comment | added | LSpice | @CamMcLeman, "all right, I got a 7-dimensional ham sandwich, a 12-dimensional ham sandwich, and a 57-dimensional ham sandwich." "Oh, that last one is Grothendieck's." | |
| Jul 5, 2010 at 5:12 | comment | added | Cam McLeman | So just take an n-dimensional ham sandwich... :) | |
| Nov 1, 2009 at 16:39 | comment | added | Michael Lugo | Ricardo, that's true. But I feel like what's really remarkable is that this holds in all dimensions, and ham sandwich definitely brings to mind a three-dimensional picture. | |
| Nov 1, 2009 at 14:16 | comment | added | Ricardo | You can just say: "a ham sandwich (two pieces of bread and one of ham) can be split in half with a single cut." | |
| Oct 31, 2009 at 17:21 | history | answered | Michael Lugo | CC BY-SA 2.5 |