Re: [math-fun] student faces expulsion for joking that square-rootsymbol looks like a gun
Probably best to stay away from "Killing Fields", as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_vector_field In mathematics, a Killing vector field (often just *Killing field*), named after Wilhelm Killing, is a vector field on a Riemannian manifold (or pseudo-Riemannian manifold) that preserves the metric. At 04:09 PM 2/23/2018, James Davis wrote:
I'll avoid teaching the hermitian conjugation this semester.
On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 4:34 PM, Hilarie Orman <ho@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
And now teachers will get bonuses for being radicals.
Hilarie
See also https://mathoverflow.net/a/53738/39521 -- APG.
Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2018 at 1:33 AM From: "Henry Baker" <hbaker1@pipeline.com> To: math-fun <math-fun@mailman.xmission.com> Cc: "Hilarie Orman" <ho@alum.mit.edu> Subject: Re: [math-fun] student faces expulsion for joking that square-rootsymbol looks like a gun
Probably best to stay away from "Killing Fields", as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_vector_field
In mathematics, a Killing vector field (often just *Killing field*), named after Wilhelm Killing, is a vector field on a Riemannian manifold (or pseudo-Riemannian manifold) that preserves the metric.
At 04:09 PM 2/23/2018, James Davis wrote:
I'll avoid teaching the hermitian conjugation this semester.
On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 4:34 PM, Hilarie Orman <ho@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
And now teachers will get bonuses for being radicals.
Hilarie
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