Subj : Re: Hey Nick To : alt.tv.farscape From : Jim Larson Date : Tue Sep 06 2005 03:21:48 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape weirdwolf wrote: > Jim Larson wrote in > news:Xns96C8BB9D778383v234oiwofui3284af93@130.133.1.18: > >> weirdwolf wrote: >> > > Hmm the Dini's surface looks like the easiest to at least approximate. > http://math.cl.uh.edu/~gray/Gifccsurfs/ccsurfs.html > Either end of the Kuens surface reminds me of the centre spiral of a > snail shell the "spine" if yo will of the shell when you reomve the outer > surface. Mind you whenever I see pictures of a Calabi-Yau space,(that has > to be spelt wrong,) I always think of a really long crumpled mobius strip Nope. Spelled right. Eugenio Calabi and Shing-Tung Yau. > so it's no surprise I have problems with maths. I get the impression you would have the opposite of trouble if you had the time and interest to learn this stuff in some more depth. If you have fun thinking about how these spaces can be visualized, taken apart, etc., see if you can find an introductory book on topological surgery. Or look on the web. The web knows all. Here's a fun factoid. I knew Gene Calabi. I took a class with him. Didn't understand a damned thing. > WOW! big ol brain. I tend to do the Barbie math stuff because I just > read stuff for fun and so have huge gaping holes in what I know. > Big ol reject. I got fed up and quit. Moved to computer science and robotics. Stuff you can touch. You are already far and away better informed on the subject than the vast, vast majority of folks, so the self-deprecating Barbie thing is clearly just to get in good with Ruediger[1]. > > I've forgotten so much of the biochemistry I used to know, it's unreal. Yup. Sucks, don't it? -- Jim [1] At some point, I need to switch back to abusing Trafford. Gotta mix these things up now and then. .