@St_Rev In case this is of any interest (greek to me): http://phys.org/news/2014-04-mathematicians-source-rogers-ramanujan-identities-algebraic.html …
@Meaningness Moral of the story: there is no point writing news articles on mathematical research, bc epsilon > readers > 0 will understand.
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@St_Rev In general, articles about STEM carefully omit THE ONE FACT that an educated reader would want to know. Cuz too threatening 4 rest.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@St_Rev First noticed this 20 years ago in a spate of “researchers find biomolecule with function X” news articles that tell you everything>Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@St_Rev EXCEPT WHAT THE GODDAMN MOLECULE IS -
@Meaningness "Drug make ooky all better" is readable. "Bomb make thing fall down", OK. "Module construct nilpotents in representation ring"? -
@St_Rev “first total synthesis of a transition metal organometallic polycyclic macrocycle”? -
@Meaningness "First recipe from 'scratch' for an important type of molecule that combines a bunch of carbon rings with a metal atom"? -
@St_Rev Yeah, although kind of more like “chemistry equivalent of building a supercomputer out of popsicle sticks” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.B._Woodward#B12_synthesis_and_Woodward.E2.80.93Hoffmann_rules … -
@Meaningness I think the mean inferential distance for mathematical research results is a lot deeper than it is for other fields, though. -
@St_Rev I think you are probably right (but think it would be hard to validate this). -
@Meaningness Chunk key concepts into a directed graph, X -> Y means X is necessary background to Y, compute mean depth or something - 10 more replies
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