Mathematics - 2012-12-13 (page 2 of 5)

robjohn

06:03

@anon: how about a wreath?

anon

too much wreath

user19161

Behold my lovely new Xmas avatar!

skullpatrol

Hi @HenryB. @PeterSheldrick @AndresCaicedo welcome and Merry Christmas :)

robjohn

@JasperLoy Very festive!

anon

I like it.

user19161

06:05

@anon =)

skullpatrol

Pop Quiz: name the Christmas colors?

user19161

Red and green?

skullpatrol

and?

user19161

White?

robjohn

@skullpatrol Red, Green, and white

user19161

06:08

Jinx.

skullpatrol

also?

user19161

At this rate, all colours will be included...

skullpatrol

Two more...

robjohn

@skullpatrol are you also thinking of Hanukkah colors? (Blue and white)

user19161

Silver?

user19161

06:09

Gold?

robjohn

@JasperLoy That was about metals (Burl Ives)

user19161

Yay!!!

user19161

It's a miracle I got all five.

Henry B.

Hello skullpatrol

user19161

There can be miracles when you believe. --- Mariah Carey

skullpatrol

06:10

@HenryB. hi

robjohn

►

skullpatrol

Wiki says: "The traditional colors of Christmas are green and red.[47] White, silver and gold are also popular. Red symbolizes the blood of Jesus, which was shed in his crucifixion, while green symbolizes eternal life, and in particular the evergreen tree, which does not lose its leaves in the winter.[44][47]"

hi @BrianM.Scott welcome and Merry Christmas

Brian M. Scott

06:28

@skullpatrol Gleðileg Jól!

skullpatrol

@BrianM.Scott Icelandic?

Brian M. Scott

@skullpatrol Já. (Not that I can even read the language without extreme difficulty, but I have actually made use once or twice of Icelandic Wikipedia.)

skullpatrol

@BrianM.Scott There is an old puzzle that goes Iceland is covered in ice most of the year but Greenland is too, why is it called "Green"?

Brian M. Scott

The usual guess is that the name was bestowed by Eiríkr as a form of advertising.

skullpatrol

Yup :)

@BrianM.Scott Have you seen my question?

Brian M. Scott

06:37

@skullpatrol No, I hadn’t; it must have come in while I was asleep. I’ll take a more serious look in a bit.

Did robjohn do your hat? (I just saw Mariano’s.)

skullpatrol

No, he did all the rest though...

BenjaLim

I HAVE MACAULAY 2!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@anon I have macaulay2

anon

cool

BenjaLim

@anon Oh god I spent like hours trying to decide some stupid ideal membership thingy

Brian M. Scott

@anon Your seasonal sprucing-up is one of the classiest that I’ve yet seen.

BenjaLim

06:42

Macaulay2 does it in 3 secs

@BrianM.Scott There is no snow in australia

it's summer

anon

America = internet

Brian M. Scott

@BenjaLim So count your blessings!

anon

Actually, is there even snow in the US yet?

Haven't seen any in NE.

Brian M. Scott

@anon I saw just a little here in Cleveland Heights the other day. And back around Thanksgiving I saw some on the ground in the hills of southeastern Pennsylvania.

anon

cool

skullpatrol

06:45

Christmas =?= snow

Brian M. Scott

@skullpatrol Not in Australia!

@Mike: I won my bet with myself: you were the first to answer your question.

Mike Spivey

@BrianM.Scott You really thought I would be the first to answer my question? I'm flattered! :)

Brian M. Scott

@MikeSpivey I really did.

anon

@Benja, heh heh, check out pg24 here and see if the formula looks familiar

skullpatrol

@BrianM.Scott What did you win?

Mike Spivey

06:49

@BrianM.Scott Well, I did have a head start, since I'm sure I spent more time thinking about it than anyone else.

Brian M. Scott

@skullpatrol I pat on the back. So now my shoulder’s sore. :-)

@MikeSpivey And I’ve seen you do a fair number of unobvious combinatorial arguments. You, Marc van Leeuwen, Eu Yu, and a couple of others who aren’t coming to mind are the names that occur (or at the moment fail to occur) to me when I think of interesting combinatorial problems.

Mike Spivey

@BrianM.Scott Thanks, Brian. I appreciate that, particularly coming from you.

@BrianM.Scott It also helped that I had this answer floating around in the back of my head. I found the right way to tweak that one so that I could answer my recent question.

Brian M. Scott

@MikeSpivey Nothing like having a store of useful odds and ends.

Mike Spivey

@Brian: Absolutely. Nice chatting with you, by the way. It's bedtime for me.

Peter Sheldrick

@skullpatrol, sorry i missed what you wrote. I'm not sure how long this site keeps me in the chat even if i close my browser. Merry Christmas though ;)

Brian M. Scott

07:04

@MikeSpivey I’m a night owl, especially now that my time’s completely my own, so I’ll be up for hours yet. But it’s great to see you here.

skullpatrol

@PeterSheldrick Just saying Hi and Merry Christmas :)

user19161

07:29

@BrianM.Scott I see you are still at it even after attaining 100k. I guess you will overtake Arturo very soon.

Brian M. Scott

@JasperLoy It’ll be a while yet, I think.

Matt N.

07:40

Hi everyone.

skullpatrol

hi

Matt N.

@JasperLoy That's a new avatar!

@BrianM.Scott Long time no see!

Brian M. Scott

@MattN. I’ve seen you, though: you’ve posted a lot of J/W questions lately!

Matt N.

@BrianM.Scott Yes. Now I'm just about to finish reading the book (25 pages more to go). Is it annoying?

Brian M. Scott

@MattN. Not at all; just noticeable, since those are questions that I’m almost certain to read.

Matt N.

07:43

: )

user19161

@MattN. Yup but I think I prefer the steelblue so I am back to it!

user19161

@BrianM.Scott What is J/W?

Brian M. Scott

@JasperLoy Just and Weese, the authors of the text that Matt’s working through.

user19161

@BrianM.Scott Ah, never heard of.

user19161

Wow, the drama brought so many new people into this chat!

Matt N.

07:51

What drama?

user19161

Maybe they saw the Christmas hats on the front page!

user19161

@MattN. You can see meta.

Brian M. Scott

@MattN. See the starred comment from ‘Gone’, who is Bill D, and this meta question.

user19161

Wow the top three users now are RGB. Arturo is red, Andre is blue and Brian is green. QED.

skullpatrol

@BrianM.Scott Now that is drama :(

Brian M. Scott

08:02

@skullpatrol Unfortunately. But I’m afraid that something of the sort was fairly predictable.

user19161

I wonder if there will be a new election soon...

Matt N.

I got a badge.

2

skullpatrol

@BrianM.Scott Have you ever heard the proverb "once bitten by power the poison stays in your blood for life"?

Matt N.

@BrianM.Scott Ok, thanks.

user19161

@MattN. I just got 10k.

Brian M. Scott

08:04

@MattN. <splork!> Which one?

Matt N.

@JasperLoy Congratulations!

@BrianM.Scott abstract-algebra.

user19161

@MattN. They should give out T-shirts to all 10k users! =)

Brian M. Scott

@MattN. Nice!

Come to think of it, so did I: real-analysis.

user19161

The swag is a one time affair unfortunately.

user19161

@BrianM.Scott They should give me a badge for fake analysis.

user19161

08:07

@MattN. They should give me a badge for concrete algebra.

Brian M. Scott

@JasperLoy Shaped like robjohn’s avatar!

@skullpatrol I don’t recall having heard it, but the idea is certainly familiar enough.

Matt N.

@JasperLoy : )

user19161

@BrianM.Scott Wait, this is too deep for me, what has fake analysis got to do with his avatar?

user19161

Wow, I am getting used to my 10k powers here.

Brian M. Scott

@JasperLoy Fake just seems to go with that mean face. And the not-gold would also fit.

Matt N.

08:10

Ha!

Did you just see that?

Brian M. Scott

@MattN. The sleigh?

user19161

@MattN. The sleigh, yes.

Matt N.

There was Santa Claus on a sledge. Yes!

No reindeers though.

How did that happen?

Brian M. Scott

Magic?

Matt N.

: P

skullpatrol

08:12

sledge? as in hammer

Brian M. Scott

@skullpatrol No, as in sled, sledge, or sleigh.

user19161

Oops I approved an edit I should not have, nvm.

cap

If $f$ is BV over [0,1] almost everywhere, then is it BV over [0,1]?

Sanchez

What does BV a.e. mean?

Brian M. Scott

@Sanchez Of bounded variation almost everywhere.

Sanchez

08:18

@BrianM.Scott, er, that's exactly what I am asking. (ref to cap's question)

cap

Ok. I'm given |f| is BV on [0,1] and f is continuous. I want to show f is BV on [0,1]. I know |f| is BV a.e. on [0,1] (by a Thm in my notes)

Brian M. Scott

@Sanchez Sorry: I’m only half here and thought that you were asking about the abbreviation, not the concept.

Sanchez

@cap, try to split |f| into f^+ and f^-, where f^+ is the "positive part" of f and f^- is the negative part of f

oops wait

cap

I'm not sure if I can use the fact the dericative of |f| is bounded a.e. on [0,1]

The original question is math.stackexchange.com/questions/256935/…

I have lost hope in going that direction.

Sanchez

Actually I think what I was thinking is right

so, f^+ and f^- can be shown to be BV

with the assumption that |f| is BV

then by adding them you get f is BV.

At the same time I have some question about your attempt - what does BV a.e. mean?

cap

08:32

I think I may have coined that on my own, sorry. I was trying to use the fact |f| is BV with a theorem using "a.e" ....

What do you mean by "adding them"? Isn't their sum |f|?

Sanchez

i mean minus, sorry.

and, unless there is another definition of BV - I don't think BV is something that's preserved up to measure 0, i.e. a.e. doesn't make sense

Old John

Does BV a.e. make much sense? Isn't BV a global property, rather than local property?

cap

Ok, sorry about that.

Matt N.

@OldJohn Good morning.

Old John

@MattN. Hi there - how are things?

Matt N.

08:36

@OldJohn Ok. And yourself? We have lots of snow here, I like that.

Sanchez

@cap, I read the question you linked to - I guess my idea is the same as the hint but I introduced f^+ and f^- this way, so let's stick to the hint.

Old John

Lots of frost here, but no snow - but main problem is still not having a kitchen :(

Matt N.

Also suffering from slight demoralisation lately.

@OldJohn That's taking longer than expected. You should buy a whip...

Brian M. Scott

@OldJohn That sounds unpleasant. (By the way, are you another beneficiary of the robjohn hattery?)

Old John

@MattN. Me too - been trying to read a book on rational quadratic forms, and my lack of understanding is making me feel retarded

@BrianM.Scott Oh yes - hattery gets you everywhere :)

Sanchez

08:38

@Old John, is there anything cool to share about rational quadratic forms?

Brian M. Scott

@OldJohn :-) Postively mad hattery!

Old John

@Sanchez Not really - not sure anything cool has been done with them recently, but I find them fascinating - but struggling to understand the theory

@BrianM.Scott I would never dare call robjohn mad :P

cap

@ Sanchez, using the hint, how do we know that condition will continue to be satisfied as we refine our partition?

Brian M. Scott

@OldJohn But you must admit that he’s been hatting madly. (Not to mention very successfully. Yours looks good on you, and Mariano’s on the Cheshire Cat is wonderful.)

Sanchez

@Old John, I mean anything cool from the book hehe

Matt N.

08:41

Haha, now I see. The sleddy thingie appears when someone leaves the room. (I was in a different tab last time it happened and only saw the end of it)

Old John

@BrianM.Scott Absolutely :) I spent 10 minutes the other day trying to create my own - and lets just say I am grateful for rob's efforts in saving me from displaying my lack of graphic design skills :)

Sanchez

@cap, let's say we consider a partition 0, 1/3, 2/3, 1, with f(0) = 1, f(1/3) = 2, f(2/3) = -1, f(1) = 4. Can you see how one may refine the partition to satisfy the hint?

Old John

@Sanchez It is Cassel's book - and I am sure it has loads of cool stuff in it, if I can just get my head round the concept of a "quadratic space" ...

Sanchez

@OldJohn, ah I see. I think that's something to get a coordinate free expression of a quadratic form, similar to inner product space

Brian M. Scott

@OldJohn Sounds a bit ... thin. Surely a cubic space would be more useful?

cap

08:43

Doh! Sorry, I was making that much harder than it needed to be. thanks!

Old John

@BrianM.Scott :)))

Sanchez

@cap, cool :)

Old John

@Sanchez Yep - that's the idea. Just at the moment I have a blind spot about it, and can't really see what the extra generality buys us - it might become clear to me later - hopefully

Sanchez

I see.

Old John

Right - time I went out to get some breakast - having no kitchen has some interesting side-effects - like eating out more

skullpatrol

08:46

later ... enjoy the sleigh ride out :)

Matt N.

@OldJohn I am mentally challenged I think, so I suppose I know how you feel.

Old John

@MattN. Thanks!

sleigh time!!

Matt N.

@OldJohn : ) Bye.

Alex Youcis

Hello

Matt N.

See you all later.

Brian M. Scott

08:52

@AlexYoucis Place is hopping tonight.

Alex Youcis

@BrianM.Scott The chat room, the forum, or your house?

Brian M. Scott

@AlexYoucis Chat.

Alex Youcis

As it would seem.

Hey, just out of curiosity, I remember you telling me a really long time ago you went to UW Madison. Is that correct?

Brian M. Scott

@AlexYoucis Generally speaking, yes, very much.

Alex Youcis

Did you enjoy it there?

Interesting. Have you kept up with the department at all?

Brian M. Scott

08:55

@AlexYoucis Oops. Somehow I answered in an edit box.

Alex Youcis

haha, no worries.

Brian M. Scott

@AlexYoucis No, I haven’t.

Alex Youcis

Hmm, ok then.

Brian M. Scott

Most of the faculty whom I knew at all well are gone, or at least retired.

Alex Youcis

What's Madison like to live in?

Brian M. Scott

08:57

I don’t know how much it’s changed since 1975, but I liked it. Despite being the state capital, it’s of a reasonable size.

Of course, you have to be able to tolerate the winters.

Alex Youcis

Hmm, interesting. Ok, I'll keep that in midn.

Brian M. Scott

@AlexYoucis It’s very bicycle-friendly, if that makes a difference.

Alex Youcis

Not as of now, but it's good to know :)

Brian M. Scott

And the ninth-floor lounge in Van Vleck Hall, the math building, is great.

Alex Youcis

Really? How so?

Brian M. Scott

09:02

@AlexYoucis It’s very large, very comfortable, and actually used by large numbers of grad students and faculty.

A great deal of mathematics gets done there, alongside the bridge, chess, lunch, random conversation, etc.

Alex Youcis

That does sound nice actually. Hmm

skullpatrol

Hi @Alice if you're looking for wonderland you came to the right place :-D

Alex Youcis

Didn't you work with M.E.R.?

Brian M. Scott

@AlexYoucis I did indeed. The other person whom I knew well is Ken Kunen.

Alex Youcis

I am not familiar with him.

Was your speciality also counterexamples?

:)

Brian M. Scott

09:09

@AlexYoucis Set theorist, and a very good one. One of the quickest minds I know. He’s retired now, but he’s only five years older than I, and I believe that he’s still active in research. (Mary Ellen, on the other hand, is not quite two years younger than my mother!)

Sanchez

wow! Did you work with Rudin? How was she like as a person?

Brian M. Scott

@AlexYoucis I’ve a very strong liking for them, but my dissertation actually had quite a few positive results.

@Sanchez Lovely woman. With me she functioned mostly as a cheerleader, since she wasn’t much interested in what I was doing and knew that I didn’t need any help.

But she worked very closely with Mike Starbird (who also needed no help!), because his interests paralleled some of hers, and they ended up with some nice joint work.

And she got departmental funds to send me to my first math meeting and introduced me to a couple of her friends at schools where I might have applied for jobs.

Sanchez

@BrianM.Scott, did it matter when your advisor's not interested in what you do?

and did you get to see Walter Rudin much?

Alex Youcis

@Sanchez Where are you at? If you don't mind me asking that is.

Brian M. Scott

@Sanchez It didn’t matter to me, and so far as I could tell it didn’t matter to her. I was doing something reasonably nice, and that was enough. I think that quite a few of the Madison faculty were pretty relaxed that way.

Sanchez

09:14

@Alex Youcis, I'd rather keep it private, sorry.

@Alex, why though?

Gustavo Bandeira

@JasperLoy I woke up

Sanchez

@Brian, did you find your own problem then?

Alex Youcis

I looked at your profile and you had some interesting questions--I was just curious if you were at somewhere I knew. I'm applying to grad school right now, and am trying to get litmus tests on each of the schools. It's no problem though :)

Sanchez

@Alex, I am at a school that you'll know quite surely, but I'm not a good sample :)

Brian M. Scott

@Sanchez Yes and no. Mary Ellen would come back from conferences with a list of questions that she’d heard people ask, make copies, and hand it around. I got my first paper from one of those questions, and also the question that started my dissertation, though I ran with that much further than the question itself.

Alex Youcis

09:15

As long as it's not Princeton :)

Sanchez

@Brian, wow! That's cool.

Brian M. Scott

@Sanchez For self-starting students Mary Ellen was a wonderful adviser.

Sanchez

@Brian, I see.

Gustavo Bandeira

@JasperLoy Did you see the profile?

Sanchez

@Alex, What are you thinking about working on?

@AlexYoucis

Gustavo Bandeira

10:41

Omg! I've been able to log in the chat with my android! Achievement!

skullpatrol

11:06

Gustavo Bandeira

Revenge!

skullpatrol

Sweet ;-)

Hi @RegDwighт welcome and Merry Christmas.

RegDwighт

11:22

Hello.

Where did you get the nifty hat?

I am still looking for mine.

skullpatrol

It came with the skull.

RegDwighт

Oh.

I thought them was added automatically now.

It's that season.

skullpatrol

to be jolly...

RegDwighт

Thought you could run away from me, Jasper?

skullpatrol

@RegDwighт This is not bad?

RegDwighт

11:33

OOOooooh.

in English Language & Usage, Sep 14 at 16:07, by JSBձոգչ

i just googled "naked woman holding an owl"

in English Language & Usage, Sep 14 at 16:07, by JSBձոգչ

i found lots of naked women, but a disturbing lack of owls

user19161

@RegDwighт Haha, I just got an email from SE for tag subscription. I guess maybe I clicked wrongly or there is a bug somewhere, but I just went to my SE profile to unsubscribe.

skullpatrol

@RegDwighт Here's another.

RegDwighт

Das ist cute.

skullpatrol

Yup :)

It will fit in gravatar too.

robjohn

12:07

Interesting... after a more than a year and 19 upvotes, someone decided to downvote this question

skullpatrol

How do you know that one of the 19 up-voters didn't delete his account?

Old John

@robjohn But it has been miraculously upvoted recently too ...

robjohn

12:25

@OldJohn Thanks :-) However, I am not so worried about the reputation, but why it was downvoted.

Old John

@robjohn Yes, I would have been too - but I find that trying to understand the vagaries of voting are further beyond my understanding than most of maths :)

robjohn

@OldJohn I commented to invite the downvoter to comment, but it is past the usually visible comments, so even if the downvoter looks again, they won't see the comment.

skullpatrol

There should be away to pin the comment "A reason why you are down-voting this question would be appreciated." at the top.

robjohn

@OldJohn That is, unless someone upvotes my comment...

@skullpatrol there is... upvoting a comment moves it up the list.

Old John

@robjohn On the topic of comments - and the fact that some were recently prone to disappearing, I tried writing a linux script to do a "wget" on a regular basis so that it might be possible to keep a track of comments which later disappear ...

robjohn

12:29

@OldJohn on all questions?

Old John

... but then the problem seems to have "gone" , and I also hit the snag of comments not showing after the first few, unless a bit of css is activated by clicking a link :)

No - just on contentious questions - e.g. on meta :)

(tracking all questions would probably make me hit download quotas!)

robjohn

@OldJohn yes, to access the obscured comments, you need to either press the "show more comments" link, or know the URL already

@OldJohn that is most likely true

Old John

@robjohn unfortunately, there seems to be no URL - the link "add / show xxx more comments" is a bit of css that probably calls a bit of Ajax which fetches them somehow (that I cant be bothered to decipher!)

robjohn

@OldJohn I know... I was just saying that I think it is impossible to get the obscured comments in an automated fashion.

Old John

@robjohn Good grief - exactly that seems to have happened :)

@robjohn I guess there must be a way, by deciphering what server-side script the css link actually calls, but life is too short for some things :)

mr. FS

12:35

Hello

Old John

@mr.FS hi

robjohn

@OldJohn Thanks, I really appreciate that upvote (even though there is no reputation for it).

Old John

@robjohn :)

mr. FS

Does anyone here perhaps know how to reply to people with names consisting of symbols in a comment (completely unrelated to maths). Lubos Motl answered a question of mine on physics se and i wanted to reply to him but it didn't work

robjohn

@mr.FS Try typing @L and then tab to the proper choice and type a space or a colon

Old John

12:39

@mr.FS maybe copy and paste: Luboš Motl

that is what I do when I want to write "Erdős" - since I don't have a Hungarian keyboard handy

mr. FS

thanks for the suggestions i tried both of them earlier and they didn't work but i'll see if it works now (the one with the tab could not working could have been due to my internet not working right)

robjohn

@mr.FS @L should bring up a list of all the participants whose name starts with 'L'. Then tabbing (or clicking) should select the proper one. If you've tabbed, the first character typed should actually put the name in the edit box

@mr.FS If there are too many whose name starts with 'L', try @Lu

mr. FS

yes i know and i have used it before but it's not working. He's the only participant.

anyway i'm off i might be back. thanks for the help. i'll just have to hope he comes back to the answer

BenjaLim

Hey guys

what's all the ballyhoo on meta

user19161

@mr.FS You can use @ plus the first three characters. If it is the author of the post, just comment under the post without using @. There should not be a space after @.

BenjaLim

12:53

@OldJohn who started the santa hat business

@JasperLoy justin bieber nearly got killed

Old John

@BenjaLim robjohn is the mad hatter

user19161

@BenjaLim I got 10k.

BenjaLim

wow

how did your rep increase so fast?

I'm only at 12k

user19161

Two of my friends just returned from overseas but they are so busy they don't even call me.

BenjaLim

overseas?

user19161

12:55

Yes, from work or studies etc.

BenjaLim

ah from abroad

ok

nite guys

!!

Old John

@BenjaLim nite

user19161

@BenjaLim So early?

BenjaLim

@OldJohn math.stackexchange.com/questions/257698/…

user19161

@ben What time is it there?

Old John

12:56

@BenjaLim neat!

BenjaLim

I have macaulay2!!!

user19161

@BenjaLim Well, I wasn't really active, but now I'm gonna slow down too.

user19161

@BenjaLim WTF is that?

BenjaLim

@OldJohn in algebraic number theory

often a prime will split in an extension

you have to determine how it splits\

user19161

@BenjaLim WTF, you use Ubuntu?

Old John

12:57

never tried Macaulay - only ever used paqi/gp

BenjaLim

@JasperLoy yes is that a problem?

user19161

Is it free?

BenjaLim

@OldJohn Macaulay2 is THE software for people that do AG/CA

user19161

@BenjaLim No, but I think Ubuntu sucks.

BenjaLim

@JasperLoy yes and why are you stunned about my use of ubuntu?

Old John

12:58

@BenjaLim expensive?

user19161

@BenjaLim The only software I use is my brain and my calculator. =)

BenjaLim

@OldJohn math.uiuc.edu/Macaulay2

@JasperLoy I worked it out by hand in the end

@JasperLoy FYI there are no viruses in ubuntu

user19161

@BenjaLim So Ben have you found any love yet? =)

BenjaLim

@JasperLoy bullshit

user19161

@BenjaLim FYI I have been using Debian.

user19161

12:59

@BenjaLim What BS? I am asking you a serious question!

BenjaLim

@OldJohn I realised sooner of later I would need to use Macaulay2

If I wanted to be a serious mathematician

@JasperLoy FYI it is a lot more difficult for me to find "love"

user19161

@BenjaLim OK, FYI I have given up long ago.

Old John

@BenjaLim I will have a go at installing it

BenjaLim

@JasperLoy I realised finding love is trivial

@OldJohn what is your OS?

Old John

Linux Mint

user19161

13:01

@BenjaLim Mint.

BenjaLim

@JasperLoy It's just trivial really, pointless

@JasperLoy this comes from a deep observation about what the conventional meaning of love is

user19161

@BenjaLim A point has zero length.

BenjaLim

the Lebesgue measure is zero

user19161

@BenjaLim In the same way, math is also pointless if you say love is pointless.

BenjaLim

@JasperLoy I decided that finding love is pointless

@JasperLoy Maths is a lot deeper

and a lot richer

user19161

13:02

@BenjaLim No, I think love is more important than math, and a lot richer.

BenjaLim

love, anyone can get in love, put a glove on their willy

but not everyone can understand say

user19161

@BenjaLim HAHAHAHAHA

BenjaLim

what is an algebraic number field

@JasperLoy If I wanted to I could put a glove on my willy and be down at oxford st right now

user19161

@BenjaLim Well, OK.

BenjaLim

@JasperLoy sick and tired of modern life really

so mundane

people are always talking about mundane things that every jack and jill on the street can talk about

user19161

13:04

Anyway, I am disappointed that my friends did not call me, I think maybe I should retreat into solitude, away from this world...

BenjaLim

@JasperLoy I suggest going for a vipasssana retreat

user19161

@BenjaLim I suggest you put on your glove now. =)

user19161

@BenjaLim OMG!

BenjaLim

@OldJohn how's it coming?

user19161

@ben Do you know that Bill is leaving?

Old John

13:09

@BenjaLim Macaulay? - it will have to wait until later today - need to eat and sort out the house :(

user19161

@BenjaLim Math is as mundane as love.

user19161

@OldJohn Yes, the kitchen!

Old John

@JasperLoy Yes- the K-word :(((

mr. FS

@JasperLoy i'm back. he is indeed the author of the post so i suppose he will be notified

user19161

13:29

@rob Are you around?

Matt N.

Hi.

@BenjaLim True. Although some gloves can.

@JasperLoy I can understand that. At least you didn't send them an email and hoped for an answer.

user19161

@MattN. Hehe, are you thinking of your teddy now?

robjohn

@JasperLoy I am late to leave to proctor an exam. What's up?

user19161

@robjohn Oh could you lock a meta thread that I just undeleted? See meta.math.stackexchange.com/questions/6807/… and meta.math.stackexchange.com/questions/3531/… and meta.math.stackexchange.com/questions/1720/… But you should leave for your exam.

robjohn

13:45

@JasperLoy with all the problems going on, I would rather wait until I can talk to other mods before locking a thread

user19161

@robjohn Yup, you are right. Nvm, ignore that. But now you know what's going on on meta.

user19161

Hello @gone. I see you are back in this chat.

user19161

Hey @amwhy good morning! Have you had your coffee yet?

amWhy

@JasperLoy No...no coffee yet! Good day to you!

user19161

@amWhy I am having some pepsi now...

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