{"id":21296,"date":"2020-04-02T11:01:33","date_gmt":"2020-04-02T15:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/?p=21296"},"modified":"2020-04-02T11:01:35","modified_gmt":"2020-04-02T15:01:35","slug":"on-arxiv-today-one-of-the-strangest-math-papers-ive-seen-a-proof-of-a-result-in-metric-geometry-in-the-form-of-a-fantasy-novellette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/?p=21296","title":{"rendered":"On arXiv today, one of the strangest math papers I&#8217;ve seen: a proof of a result in metric geometry in the form of a fantasy novellette"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">On arXiv today, one of the strangest math papers I&#39;ve seen: a proof of a result in metric geometry in the form of a fantasy novellette.<br><br>According to the acknowledgments, the paper is a retort by the author against those who complain that his research articles are too verbose. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FeXhPMW8a8\">https:\/\/t.co\/FeXhPMW8a8<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Evan Patterson (@ejpatters) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ejpatters\/status\/1245521381883695104?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 2, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/2003.13758.pdf\">A non-Euclidean story or: how to persist when your geometry doesn\u2019t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A non-Euclidean story or: how to persist when your geometry doesn\u2019t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,16,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creativite","category-drole","category-mathematiques"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21297,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21296\/revisions\/21297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}