My dog’s middle name is Epsilon, in Erdos fashion*. I had wanted it to be her name, but my boyfriend wouldn’t allow it. Our future children are to be pitied. :-)
* Paul Erdos had a nickname for everything and referred to little children (little things?) as epsilons.
David Brown and I were exchanging math pickup lines. His was: “You NP-complete me.” Mine: “Hey babe, you want to come over to my place and see my probability machine?”
lemma of my life…
For an unreachable love: my asymptote.
My dog’s middle name is Epsilon, in Erdos fashion*. I had wanted it to be her name, but my boyfriend wouldn’t allow it. Our future children are to be pitied. :-)
* Paul Erdos had a nickname for everything and referred to little children (little things?) as epsilons.
BTW, the end-of-proof box is sometimes called a ‘halmos.’
Halmos is a lovely name, actually. I like the “epsilon and delta” idea.
There’s also the obvious (and already done by the Klein 4) “my axiom of choice.” And of course, my “complement”
David Brown and I were exchanging math pickup lines. His was: “You NP-complete me.” Mine: “Hey babe, you want to come over to my place and see my probability machine?”
To quote Tom Lehrer:
There’s a delta for every epsilon,
It’s a fact that you can always count upon.
There’s a delta for every epsilon
And now and again,
There’s also an N.
But one condition I must give:
The epsilon must be positive
A lonely life all the others live,
In no theorem
A delta for them.
:(
A mathematician once told me I was her “axiom of choice”… Unfortunately she was a constructivist.
(I can’t remember where I heard that one. “Axiom of choice” presumably comes from Klein Four, as already said.)