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Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
SylviaFysica@scholar.social ("Sylvia Wenmackers 🦉🍀") wrote:
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- 3 by 3 grid with pictures of mathematicians and descriptions. First row: Good Lawful: GAUSS Prove it! Neutral: MCLAUREN Study a special case of an already proven theorem. Chaotic: CANTOR-SCHRÖDER-DEDEKIND-BERNSTEIN Cantor publishes the theorem without proof. Dedekind proves but does not publish it. Schröder announces, it is a mere consequence of another theorem. Bernstein presents his proof. Simultaneously ... Second row: Neutral Lawful: L'HÔPITAL Buy the rights to the theorem from another mathematician. Neutral: MORRIE Teach a funny trigonometry fact to a childhood friend of yours, who turns out to become one of the most influential physicists of your generation and names it after you. Chaotic: PYTHAGORAS Be the leader of an ancient math cult. Third row: Evil Lawful: POINCARÉ Conjecture something and hope that the name sticks. Neutral: RIEMANN Make a wrong assumption (which you name after Dirichlet to make it seem more plausible) and use it to give a wrong proof - but the name sticks anyway. Chaotic: FERMAT Take the most ridiculously hard theorem you can possibly find, claim you can prove it but don’t have enough space on the page left and let the math world go crazy about it for the next 350 vears. (remote)
