Timeline for What are some examples of colorful language in serious mathematics papers?
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| Nov 21, 2021 at 5:47 | comment | added | Z. M | @JoshuaP.Swanson "he assumed too much commutative algebra background" — but he also has "Undergraduate Commutative Algebra". | |
| Jul 6, 2020 at 4:51 | comment | added | Joshua P. Swanson | Two more examples, which I remember fondly from my own undergraduate days: (1) "If you think this statement is obvious, congratulations on your intuition: you have just guessed a particular case of the Nullstellensatz. Now find your own proof (GOTO 2.6)." [The proof takes up the remainder of 2.5.] and (2) "For (ii), I use a rather nonobvious 'determinant trick' (which I didn't think of for myself)". I find myself wanting to teach from that book now! (My recollection is that he assumed too much commutative algebra background, but that's easily supplemented.) | |
| S Apr 2, 2017 at 8:57 | history | edited | Sebastian Goette | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
My intention was just to add a closing bracket at the end, but I have changed the correct german words in italic and decapitalized letter G in German (undone in review) due to I was unable to edit without 5 characters change.
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| S Apr 2, 2017 at 8:57 | history | suggested | CommunityBot | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
My intention was just to add a closing bracket at the end, but I have changed the correct german words in italic and decapitalized letter G in German due to I was unable to edit without 5 characters change.
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| Jun 9, 2015 at 11:38 | history | edited | Adam P. Goucher | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Amended typographical error: bizaare $\mapsto$ bizarre
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| Feb 3, 2011 at 22:47 | comment | added | Daniel Moskovich | Miles Reid is an extraordinarily entertaining speaker. I heard him once call a theorem "Ice-cream of Tuesday" in a talk. More amazing still was that this was indeed a good, descriptive name, for the theorem! | |
| Sep 17, 2010 at 15:32 | history | answered | sobe86 | CC BY-SA 2.5 |