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The second chapter of the book The Mathematical Experience has a hilarious interview between a hypothetical pure mathematician working on "non-Rimenan hypersqua
by Jun8 9y ago
The second chapter of the book The Mathematical Experience has a hilarious interview between a hypothetical pure mathematician working on "non-Rimenan hypersquares" and a reporter who wants to do a piece on his work (pdf link, starts on page 39: http://www.springer.com/cda/content/document/cda_downloaddocument/9780817682941-c1.pdf http://www.springer.com/cda/content/document/cda_downloaddoc...). It demonstrates this exact issue.
- mturmon 9y agoIt is an extraordinary book. I've read and re-read it. Just a chunk from the part you mentioned: "He finds it difficult to establish meaningful conversation with that large portion of humanity that has never heard of a non-Riemannian hypersquare. This creates grave difficulties for him; there are two colleagues in his department who know something about non-Riemannian hypersquares, but one of them is on sabbatical, and the other is much more interested in non-Eulerian semirings."