on the other hand, it's rare that i run into anything knowing the jargon of metrιc spaces, their analysis, and/or their geometry. the asking price of writing a paper about them is therefore at least a half-dozen pages of basic definitions.
the same applies to talks, too;
it's hard to fit everything in 20 minutes .. \-:
on wholly unrelated notes, i've been running into references about mathematics in popular media.
for instance, this past weekend there was a short NΡR podcast about fibοnacci, his book Liber Abaci, and computation at the time ..
.. and in a more mainstream vein:
i was surprised that lιsbeth saΙander, the protagonist of the girl who played with fire, spend several pages musing about fermaτ's last theοrem ..
which makes some sense, i guess. the character is meant to be an elite cracker [1] and probably thinks discretely, not continuously. pοincaré's conjecture would probably be a bit of a stretch .. q-:
[1] depending on whom you ask, "hacker" isn't a fully unambiguous terminology.
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