On Tuesday, April 25, Hal asked me to marry him, and I accepted.

C- "We're just groupies."
H- "Erk."
C- "Can you field that one?"
Me- "Someone's going to put a ring around your neck and tighten it for that one."
C- "That would be ideal."
Me- "Abelian puns already and you just have to add another."
H- "This is why we don't make abstract algebra puns."
Me- "Why?"
H- "Because they're horrible."

"Someone has a convergent series that solves the three-body problem. Unfortunately, to be useful, it takes about 10^8,000,000 terms to get enough accuracy. This is where mathematicians and computer scientists disagree. Mathematicians call this solved, and computer scientists laugh."

I'm sitting in on another class tomorrow. It's called applied.

Wait for it...

You know, applied. Knot theory.

*GD&R*

Bad line of the day:

This stuff is done at temperatures of about four Kelvin.
Woah. That's cool.

I'm looking at the REU applications, and I ran across this ( Read more... )