I was joking. You know, he's doing this purposely rambling, intricate (satirical) talk, for the purpose of mocking what he finds to be the irrelevance of the su

I was joking. You know, he's doing this purposely rambling, intricate (satirical) talk, for the purpose of mocking what he finds to be the irrelevance of the subject mathematical discovery. Then someone (presumably from the math camp) comes along and unwittingly responds only to a tiny trivial detail, in a manner that is as meaningless as the parent believes the discovery itself to be. Ahem. So...I guess it's not a very good joke if it has to be explained, but I got a kick out of it!