Statistics Saturday: Some Ordinary Mathematics Terms That Sound Like Problems From A 1960s _Superman_ Comic


  • Null Space
  • Hyperdeterminant
  • MANOVA Tests
  • Functors
  • Vertical Line Test
  • Uniform Convexity
  • Cyclotomic Field
  • Dehn Invariants
  • Surjection
  • Spectral Leakage
  • 11-Cell
  • Groupoids

Reference: Keystone: The Life and Clowns of Mack Sennett, Simon Louvish.

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Author: Joseph Nebus

I was born 198 years to the day after Johnny Appleseed. The differences between us do not end there. He/him.

5 thoughts on “Statistics Saturday: Some Ordinary Mathematics Terms That Sound Like Problems From A 1960s _Superman_ Comic”

  1. 11-cell sounds like a type of battery that my local hardware store would declare “out of stock” on a day when its replacement was crucial to the proper operation of some important household electronic device or another, necessitating a long drive to a big box store, who would also declare it “out of stock”

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    1. Doesn’t it, though? And yet it’s merely a regular four-dimensional structure with boundary surfaces themselves Klein bottles or Moebius strips and therefore impossible to represent in any reasonable way in a three-dimensional space.

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