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| # Posted 2007-12-24 21:50:51 | |
| ebuckley: | by They Might Be Giants seems a much better song for an applied mathematician. Why do triangles hate particles so much anyway? Seems just the sort of thing a gun slingin' texas mathman might want to ponder. |
| # Posted 2007-12-24 22:13:58 | |
| Swampfox: | We could both send him our playlist suggestions, as a completely out of the blue Christmas gift. He would be so blown away he might tumble off into Oklahoma, and he would sing "The Lucky One" over and over again, all day long. |
| # Posted 2007-12-25 04:14:31 | |
| tomwbil: | That's a very astute distinction, ebuckley, because I am certainly not by any means a number theorist.
You guys should know though that "we" don't like civilians joking about math. The lay folk mess it up, misuse it or use it for evil far too often and our patience ran out a couple of centuries ago. Just ask Gale's step dad, Ivar. He'll set you straight. |
| # Posted 2007-12-25 04:18:50 | |
| disorienteer: | It's true. Tom gets very annoyed watching "Numbers," for example. He'll say, "Yeahhhh, that's a real equation, but you can't use it that way!" It's so entertaining.
BTW, I've updated Tom's new playlist -- still need a few more! |
| # Posted 2007-12-25 04:29:39 | |
| Boojums: | Maybe we should stop trying to be so intellectual and realize that maybe Tom just needs something to balance out the girlie stuff. I recommend one that is often on my ipod, Bodies. |
| # Posted 2007-12-25 05:38:23 | |
| ebuckley: | Hey! I'm no civilian. As Doctor Science would say: "I have a Master's Degree!" |
| # Posted 2007-12-25 08:26:27 | |
| Swampfox: | I have a sneaking suspicion you are talking about Gail, not Gale, right? If so, I have a vivid memory of the man who would be Ivar working a soil absorbtion problem on a yellow legal pad. Even though I was a mere civilian, I knew at the time I was witnessing real math. |
| # Posted 2007-12-27 04:40:51 | |
| jjcote: | Ratlaf once explained to me why Triangle Man hates Particle Man, and at first I was skeptical, but the more I thought about it, the more I realized that he was probably right. But I'm too polite to go into the details in this forum, even though it doesn't involve politics. |
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