(submitted by xixihaha)
…idiosyncratic elements of Paul Erdős’ vocabulary (mod’s note: for those of you who don’t know, Paul Erdős was a mathematician who was notoriously eccentric):
- Children were referred to as “epsilons” (because in mathematics, particularly calculus, an arbitrarily small positive quantity is commonly denoted by that Greek letter (ε));
- Women were “bosses”;
- Men were “slaves”;
- People who stopped doing math had “died”;
- People who physically died had “left”;
- Alcoholic drinks were “poison”;
- Music was “noise”;
- People who had married were “captured”;
- People who had divorced were “liberated”;
- To give a mathematical lecture was “to preach” and
- To give an oral exam to a student was “to torture” him/her.
Source - Wikipedia
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oonaseckar reblogged this from appliedmathemagics and added:
Highlights for accuracy. Specially love kids being epsilons.
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rootsofunity reblogged this from appliedmathemagics and added:
Seems pretty accurate…
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