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. . . for a change." [ ca '46 ref 2366 / cal 30T2rg] "What change?", you may ask. A period-correct 16 mm steel buckle signed 'Omega' on the back . . . . . . fitted to a simple black lizard strap. Art
. . . last year. Six altogether so far. ;-)
Ever noticed that Russell Crowe never appears when he writes math on the board in ‘A beautiful mind’? OK, his hand in the movie is actually Dave’s hand...and this is/was the (algebraically significant!) license plate of his car!😉🥇
. . . an alignment of celestial bodies, right? The only reason I knew this is because it's the last word in the dictionary under the letter 's'.
Basically (but very basically! ), syzigies are the relations (or the relations among the relations, and so on, until you stop thanks of a theorem of Hilbert...) among polynomials.... Another cute property is that "syzygy" is, or so they say, the only word in Canadian or British English (but not American!) that when you write it by hand, it ends up under the "line" 6 times in a row... ;-)
. . . . . . (And yes, I got the bit about five consecutive letters being under the line. My formative years were spent in a British school, so writing zed longhand came immediately to mind.)
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