A theory of gears
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'A mathematician who studied a very abstract topic was annoyed that his peers in more applied fields always made fun of him.
'One day he saw a sign "talk today on the theory of gears", and said to himself "I'll go to that! What could be more practical than a talk on gears?".
'He arrives at the talk, eager to learn applicable knowledge. The speaker goes up to the podium and addresses the crowd: "Welcome to this talk on the theory of gear. Today I will be speaking about gears with an irrational number of teeth".'
(From mathoverflow).
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Authors: ag