Oh yes, I did forget to say that. But I think that anyone who didn't know that cats go "mew" doesn't stand a whiskered shellfish in a catastrophic gravitational collapse and coronoa-shedding's chance of appreciateing a joke about physics and buddhism; I cannot aim my humour for a commoner denominator than that without farting a tune :)
I have a series of half a dozen jokes which ALL start "What's yellow and equivalent to the exiom of choice" but the first one original to me, invented if I recall correctly, one damp evening in the back yard of the castle, has the response "Tychonose's theorem! Bdm-tsh!" because Tycho Brahe fake nose was supposedly gold, and Tychonov's theorem is equivalent to the axiom of choice. Tycho was an astronomer of some sort who lost his nose in a duel. Tychonov's theorem says that the product of (possibly infintely many) compact spaces is compact; for instance, the product of closed and bounded vector spaces is closed and bounded.
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Date: 2004-07-22 02:51 pm (UTC)I have a series of half a dozen jokes which ALL start "What's yellow and equivalent to the exiom of choice" but the first one original to me, invented if I recall correctly, one damp evening in the back yard of the castle, has the response "Tychonose's theorem! Bdm-tsh!" because Tycho Brahe fake nose was supposedly gold, and Tychonov's theorem is equivalent to the axiom of choice. Tycho was an astronomer of some sort who lost his nose in a duel. Tychonov's theorem says that the product of (possibly infintely many) compact spaces is compact; for instance, the product of closed and bounded vector spaces is closed and bounded.