There's an apocryphal story about a mathematics student who wrote a dissertation on the properties of a certain class of topological spaces. At the thesis defense, a committee member noticed that the class of such spaces was empty.https://twitter.com/thymetikon/status/1131702577878503425 …
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I remember hearing some version of this story from a prof when I was an undergrad but I forget what particular kind of thing it was claimed to be
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. Banned in Sweden. SubGenius, Zhuangist, white-hat troll. Defrocked mathematician. Brain problems.