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Seeking Sylvester's 1878 paper on chemistry and invariant theory, I stumble… | |
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@jesusmargar - yes, James Joseph Sylvester, the inventor of the term 'graph… | |
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@jesusmargar - I'm sorry, he didn't invent graph theory, but he was the… | |
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@jesusmargar - when I was young I was too busy learning math to study the histo… | |
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@jesusmargar - He returned to England and took up a job at a life insurance com… | |
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@johncarlosbaez Hmm....looks like a brain dump from Sylvester's fertile min… | |
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@thebluewizard - yes, I'd like to understand his theory of "atomicules… | |
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@johncarlosbaez "homology (I might call it, rather than analogy)" (!!… | |
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@johncarlosbaez I will try to find it later, you may find it amusing. Thanks fo… | |
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@jesusmargar - I'd like to hear that story about Sylvester.I'm sorry yo… | |
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@highergeometer - yes, Sylvester's usage reminds me of the math term! But … | |
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@johncarlosbaez there’s a similar Wikipedia in Church Slavonic as well, altho… | |
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@lojikil - interesting! I'm still confused about why Google pointed me to … | |
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@johncarlosbaez these would make some great occult symbols | |
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@amsomniac - Yes! One reason I got to like math as a kid was that I liked oc… | |
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@johncarlosbaez oh, I had missed that last point, now *that* is fascinating… … | |
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@lojikil - here is the page Google took me too:https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch… | |
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@johncarlosbaez @lojikil Heh, Google has sure acquired some aggressive and irri… | |
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@andrea @lojikil - I just went to Google and searched for something, I forget w… | |
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@johncarlosbaez @highergeometer Makes me wonder how precise the analogy between… | |
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@johncarlosbaez @lojikil Huh, weird. Pretty sure I've run across that figu… | |
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@andrea - you would only have seen it on Wikipedia if you were reading Wikipedi… | |
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@johncarlosbaez @lojikil Also, lol at "Chemia theoretica est omnis divisa … | |
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@johncarlosbaez I may have once upon a time edited Wikipedia in Latin | |
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@andrea - I should never underestimate the erudition of the people here. | |
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@johncarlosbaez He's got a book I'm about to dive into called The Laws … | |
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@MEvans - Let me know if you find anything interest in The Laws of Verse! I… | |
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@johncarlosbaez I was also thinking of famous quotes about analogy in mathemati… | |
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@johncarlosbaez @highergeometer The 3 kinds of "similar" genes are ca… | |
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@johncarlosbaez @highergeometer I don't know if the idea originated with D&… |