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Neat. This bumps up my list of food-related maths from 3 to 4. So far: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ham_sandwich_theorem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ham_san
by chestervonwinch 11y ago
Neat. This bumps up my list of food-related maths from 3 to 4. So far:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ham_sandwich_theorem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ham_sandwich_theorem
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizza_theorem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizza_theorem
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Layer_cake_representation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Layer_cake_representation
- leohutson 11y agoYou can add https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pancake_sorting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pancake_sorting
- tricolon 11y agoAnd https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_cake-cutting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_cake-cutting
- christopheraden 11y agoI guess mine is sort of an anti-food-related math concept, then! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_free_lunch_theorem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_free_lunch_theorem
- OscarCunningham 11y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blancmange_curve https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blancmange_curve
- kevinwang 11y agoLet's not forget https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti_sort https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti_sort
- rawnlq 11y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coin_problem#McNugget_numbers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coin_problem#McNugget_numbers
- h_o 11y agoI want the bigger half!
- hagmonk 11y ago"announced the acceptance by the journal Theoretical Computer Science of a more efficient algorithm for pancake sorting than the one proposed by Bill Gates and Christos Papadimitriou." Bill Gates!
- douche 11y agoThe Ham Sandwich Theorem may have the best companion image/caption combo I've ever seen on wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ham_sandwich_theorem#/media/File:Ham_sandwich.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ham_sandwich_theorem#/media/Fi...
- brobdingnagian 11y agoThis is not an implausible basis with which to start a new list on Wikipedia. It is original research, but it will likely be let in.
- chestervonwinch 11y ago"research" is a generous term :) I thought about it, but the qualification to be on my list is pretty subjective. I suppose though, it could be generalized to "ideas inspired by food in STEM fields".
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- andyjohnson0 11y agoThe Squeeze Theorem in calculus [1] is also known as the "Sandwich Theorem". [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squeeze_theorem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squeeze_theorem
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- gjm11 11y agoOne of the people I went to university with had a little (very short) mental catalogue of "chromatic mathematical fruit jokes". There are exactly two famous ones. "What's purple and commutes?" "An abelian grape." And: "What's yellow and equivalent to the axiom of choice?" "Zorn's lemon." He invented another, which requires more esoteric knowledge: "What's green and determined up to isomorphism by its first Chern class?" "A lime bundle." I don't remember whether anyone found a credible fourth example. (Oh, how we laughed.) [In case anyone reading this thinks the above might be amusing if only they knew what mathematical objects were actually being referred to: (1) No, probably not. (2) Abelian group; Zorn's lemma; line bundle. For the last one, you need to make it the first Stiefel-Whitney class if you're working over the real numbers rather than the complex numbers.]
- martincmartin 11y agoI vaguely remember a joke about limit of the supremum (lim sup) involving lime soup. In fact, I brought some lime soup into math class one day in undergrad. It tasted awful. And I can't remember the joke.
- frogpelt 11y agoYou don't need to. This is hilarious.
- perlgeek 11y ago"What's yellow, normed and complete? A Bananach Space"
- gjm11 11y agoNice! Except it doesn't quite work for me because the vowel sounds don't match. (For me the second and third "a"s in "banana" are like the "a" in "arm", whereas the two in "Banach" are like the "a" in "at", and those are quite different sounds. Other people may differ -- and indeed I may be mispronouncing "Banach".)
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- knodi123 11y agoJust don't discuss this one at the dinner table: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hairy_ball_theorem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hairy_ball_theorem
- yellowapple 11y agoYou should bump it up to five; the ham sandwich theorem references a "pancake theorem" involving the bisection of two layers instead of the ham sandwich's three.