List of humorous names in mathematics
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This is a list of theorems, techniques and concepts in mathematics which are intentionally or unintentionally humorous and collected in various places online [1] [2] [3] [4]
- Birthday attack
- Boy's surface
- Buridan's ass
- cleavage [5]
- Cocks-Pinch method [6]
- Cox ring
- Cox–Zucker machine
- cumtrapz function [7]
- Dyck path
- Hairy ball theorem
- Ham sandwich theorem
- Happy ending problem
- Hardy–Littlewood inequality
- Heyting algebra
- Killing field
- Kochen–Specker theorem
- Kummer surface
- Labs septic
- Length-Dependent Wide PP [8]
- Lipschitz everywhere
- Monogamy
- Mother Functor
- Sausage catastrophe
- Sexy prime
- Simple complex Lie algebra
- Taking minors
- Tits' Deformation Theorem [9]
- Retarded potential
- WeakAss primes [10]
- Wiener measure
References
[edit]- ^ "Unusual mathematical terms". Mathematics Stack Exchange. Stack Exchange. Retrieved 20 May 2025.
- ^ Steckles, Katie (9 November 2022). "Things with silly names". Chalkdust Magazine. Retrieved 20 May 2025.
- ^ Alex Meiburg. "Fun Math Terms". Timeroot. Retrieved 20 May 2025.
- ^ SpikedMath. "Dirty Mathematics". (Roughly)daily. Retrieved 20 May 2025.
- ^ "Cleavage". nLab. ncatlab.org. Retrieved 20 May 2025.
- ^ Sha, Min (February 2014). "Heuristics of the Cocks-Pinch method". Advances in Mathematics of Communications. 8 (1): 103–118. doi:10.3934/amc.2014.8.103. Retrieved 20 May 2025.
- ^ "cumtrapz". MathWorks. The MathWorks, Inc. Retrieved 20 May 2025.
- ^ "Complexity Zoo: L – LWPP". Complexity Zoo. complexityzoo.net. Retrieved 20 May 2025.
- ^ Ram, Arun. "Tits Deformation Theorem Notes". math.soimeme.org. Retrieved 20 May 2025.
- ^ "Section 10.66 (0546): Weakly associated primes". The Stacks Project. Columbia University. Retrieved 20 May 2025.
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