25 Jul
2010
25 Jul
'10
6:03 p.m.
Call me sentimental, but I'm a little sad to see cynical math go, particularly so soon after it was introduced. Something to turn the tables on tropical math is still needed. On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 4:50 PM, Bill Thurston <wpt4@cornell.edu> wrote:
I foresee a whole branch of ipod-spell-correction–inspired mathematics. Cynical permutations, cynical field extensions,...
Indeed, I rechecked on my iphone, and it jadedly auto-corrects cubical --> cynical.
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