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- From: nickh@CS.CMU.EDU (Nick Haines)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: wanted (was: Mathemantical tattoos)
- Message-ID: <NICKH.92Jul22133628@VOILA.VENARI.CS.CMU.EDU>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 18:36:28 GMT
- References: <15512@star.cs.vu.nl>
- Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
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- In-Reply-To: anil@cs.vu.nl's message of 21 Jul 92 18:50:41 GMT
- Originator: nickh@VOILA.VENARI.CS.CMU.EDU
-
- In article <15512@star.cs.vu.nl> anil@cs.vu.nl (Sukul AR) writes:
-
- =
- And so God said:
-
- <
- a bunch of complex integrals and differential equations,
- which would cause a normal person to slightly faint and not gain
- conscience for an hour or so.
- >
-
- And there was light.
- =
-
- The equations in question are basically Maxwell's equations (at least,
- the ones I've seen are), only written out in full partial-derivatives
- terms (so there are, erm, 8 (?) of them) instead of div-grad-curl
- terms, in order to look more impressive (and which therefore look
- substantially _less_ impressive to anyone who knows what they mean). I
- think if I were to have a mathematical tattoo, it might well be
- relativistic Maxwell (4 symbols in a single equation) or the basic GR
- equations (which are about 6 symbols each).
-
- Nick Haines nickh@cs.cmu.edu
-