From: Kennita Watson (kwatson@netcom.com)
Date: Sat Oct 18 1997 - 10:20:57 MDT
>Mitchell Porter wrote:
>
>> > But Arthur C. Clarke has already told us that the locus of the
>> > contravariant tensor has noncommutative divergence in the region of the
>> > transfinite singularity!
>>
>> As an exercise, I thought I'd try to find a meaning for the
>> purportedly meaningless part of that sentence.
>
>You need to get out more.
>
>--Wax
Quite possible. Mitchell, to save you the time, Tom Lehrer's "Analytic and
Algebraic
Topology of Locally Euclidean Metrizations of Infinitely Differentiable
Riemannian
Manifolds" _does_ have a mathematical meaning. And just to prove _I_ have too
little to do, I looked for myself to see that you won't find that meaning
on the Web --
the only reference to "infinitely differentiable Riemannian manifolds" found by
AltaVista points to a picture of a llama. Quite appropriate to the current
topic, I'd
say.
Cheers,
Kennita
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