Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
Mathematicians have a really annoying tendency to use the word "elliptic" to refer to things that have only a tenuous connection with ellipses.
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Hector
@noctis
Yeah! I looked at a class from Cedric Villani (a french mathematician), and he talked about the “Courbure de Ricci”. Why is it called “Courbure” if it has nothing to do with curves ?
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