Subj : Re: Hey Nick To : alt.tv.farscape From : weirdwolf Date : Tue Sep 06 2005 03:58:25 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape Jim Larson wrote in news:Xns96C8C4EC2841E3v234oiwofui3284af93@130.133.1.18: > 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. Blimey, now how come I can spell the difficult correctly but am absolutely buggered by the easy words. >> 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. COOL, very pretty. OF course now I have the contents from my mug of tea all over the place. > 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. So not big on number theory then? >;-) When I was teaching stuff I loved thinking of how many different ways you could explain stuff to people so you could find the right experience they had as a sort of hook to hang stuff on. Like teaching Jess the idea of commutativity by balancing blocks on grandads head. Doesn't matter where the blocks ae and which way that you add them up there is the same number. It amazes me the number of people who when you ask them what is 4 *7 automatically answer 28 but when you ask what is 7*4 have to pause. > 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]. Nah it's true I am thick, I was also blond. >> >> I've forgotten so much of the biochemistry I used to know, it's >> unreal. > > Yup. Sucks, don't it? > I was trying to draw the chemical structure f the various bits of D.N.A. from memory yesterday, in the end I gave up and reached for my books, it was so embaressing. Ted -- Stare too long into the abyss and the abyss looks like a nifty place to hide the bodies .