Answer by Timothy Chow for Parodies of abstruse mathematical writing
The Qualifying Exam by Richard Roth (Mathematics Magazine38(3):166–167 (May, 1965)) mentioned in Zhen Lin's comment seems worth posting as an answer. Excerpt:ALPHA: The candidate will please define...
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In a spirit similar to MathGen, there is The proof is trivial!, a small website which randomly generates short snippets along the lines of:The proof is trivial! Just biject it to aLebesgue-measurable...
View ArticleAnswer by Timothy Chow for Parodies of abstruse mathematical writing
There is an xkcd comic with the following parody of"weirdly abstract" unsolved mathematical problems:Is the Euler Field Manifold Hypergroup Isomorphic to a Gödel-Klein Meta-Algebreic ε<0 Quasimonoid...
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Found this wonderful specimen few days ago:A non-judgmental reconstruction of drunken logic by Robert J. SimmonsThis work builds on and extends a seemingly equally important paper which unfortunately I...
View ArticleAnswer by Tim Campion for Parodies of abstruse mathematical writing
Might as well add this gem.Group theory for homotopy theorists (Expository note), Krause and Nikolaus.available on Nikolaus'website, direct downloadAbstract: We demonstrate how to effectively work with...
View ArticleAnswer by Per Alexandersson for Parodies of abstruse mathematical writing
D. Knuth's "The complexity of songs" is definitely in this category. The article contains a few gems such asHowever, the advent of modern drugs has led to demands for still less memory, and the...
View ArticleAnswer by Zavosh for Parodies of abstruse mathematical writing
The m-Lab is a randomly generated parody of n-Lab.
View ArticleAnswer by Yoav Kallus for Parodies of abstruse mathematical writing
A lovely example of this genre is Burritos for the hungry mathematician by Ed Morehouse, which includes such lines as "To wit, a burrito is just a strong monad in the symmetric monoidal category of food."
View ArticleAnswer by Martin Hairer for Parodies of abstruse mathematical writing
I guess John Walsh's "lost scroll", an Asterix-inspired parody of the "Séminaires de Probabilités" should appear in this list. The letter purporting to explain how the scroll was found is particularly...
View ArticleAnswer by Hauke Reddmann for Parodies of abstruse mathematical writing
Meta variant: Does the Euler-Diderot incident count? E.g. hereBecause it is made-up?
View ArticleAnswer by Tim Carson for Parodies of abstruse mathematical writing
It is a presentation, but I think it should count. Graduate students at Carnegie Mellon setup a "telephone game" presentation: $n $ people write $n $ beamer slides, but person $k $ only sees slide...
View ArticleAnswer by Torsten Schoeneberg for Parodies of abstruse mathematical writing
Topologische Differentialalgebra. [Update: Site seems to be down. Drat. See link in Martin Brandenburg's comment for an archived version.] This is a script about a (hitherto) non-existing field of...
View ArticleAnswer by Michael Renardy for Parodies of abstruse mathematical writing
"De statu corruptionis" is something along such lines. It is available here:https://www.amazon.de/corruptionis-Entscheidungslogische-Ein%C3%BCbungen-H%C3%B6here-Amoralit%C3%A4t/dp/3922305016The parody...
View ArticleAnswer by LSpice for Parodies of abstruse mathematical writing
It's not quite in the spirit for which you ask, but it's always a good time to mention Serre's How to write mathematics badly. (I'm sorry for the abysmal video quality, but you can still get much of...
View ArticleAnswer by Gerry Myerson for Parodies of abstruse mathematical writing
Colin Adams often inserts mathematical doubletalk in his humorous short stories. Here's an example, from the story, A Proof of God, from the book, Riot at the Calc Exam: Well, then we factor by the...
View ArticleAnswer by Steven Landsburg for Parodies of abstruse mathematical writing
Does mathematical physics count? http://www.landsburg.com/rasputin.pdf
View ArticleAnswer by მამუკაჯიბლაძე for Parodies of abstruse mathematical writing
In a comment to one of the answers here Marius Kempe mentioned a similar case described in Mikhail Gromov's autobiographic text A Few Recollections; I liked it so much I decided to put it in a separate...
View ArticleAnswer by Richard Montgomery for Parodies of abstruse mathematical writing
In the 80s I attended a conference titled ``Rigid Bodies with Flexible Attachments''. The sad part is that nobody, me included, saw anything strange about that title. It took my wife and her friends,...
View ArticleAnswer by Margaret Friedland for Parodies of abstruse mathematical writing
In this example, a parody of mathematical writing serves a purpose which is definitely not comic, but it is so good that it deserves a mention. In 1982, during the martial law in Poland, Stanislaw...
View ArticleAnswer by Amir Asghari for Parodies of abstruse mathematical writing
The following is somehow a parody of "proof by contradiction" with an obvious educational purpose taken from the book "The Foundation of Mathematics" written by Ian Stewart and David Tall: COMEDIAN:...
View ArticleAnswer by Pasha Zusmanovich for Parodies of abstruse mathematical writing
Yet another entry, for what it's worth: C. Adams and S.G. Krantz, The cohomology of proofs, Math. Intelligencer 28 (2006), N3, 29-30.
View ArticleAnswer by Count Iblis for Parodies of abstruse mathematical writing
Physicists are way ahead of mathematicians here, see here. The Stuperspace article is a classic.
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Answer by Pablo Lessa for Parodies of abstruse mathematical writing
I remember picking up Whitehead and Russell's "Principia Mathemematica" as an undergraduate and finding it about as interesting as a telephone book.You know you have something special in your hands...
View ArticleAnswer by მამუკაჯიბლაძე for Parodies of abstruse mathematical writing
The online version of the closing entry of Reports of the Midwest Category Seminar IV (1970, Springer LNM 137) costs $29.95 so I decided to place a transcript here.CATEGORICALLY, THE FINAL EXAMINATION...
View ArticleAnswer by Robert for Parodies of abstruse mathematical writing
Love and Tensor Algebra from The Cyberiad by Stanislaw Lem (translation by Michael Kandel)Come, let us hasten to a higher planeWhere dyads tread the fairy fields of Venn,Their indices bedecked from one...
View ArticleAnswer by Goldstern for Parodies of abstruse mathematical writing
A note on piffles. I am not sure where it was first published; according to this page it was in the Mathematical Gazette 1967: jstor link.A.C.Jones in his paper "A Note on the Theory of Boffles",...
View ArticleAnswer by Dan Petersen for Parodies of abstruse mathematical writing
There is the truly wonderful Mustard watches: an integrated approach to time and food by "Y.-J. Ringard" (Jean-Yves Girard). http://girard.perso.math.cnrs.fr/mustard/article.html
View ArticleAnswer by Deane Yang for Parodies of abstruse mathematical writing
Is this what you're looking for?http://thatsmathematics.com/mathgen/Mathgen is an random math paper generator, based on SCIgen which does the same for computer science papers. It will provide you with...
View ArticleAnswer by Joe Silverman for Parodies of abstruse mathematical writing
There was a parody of mathematical research in the Math Monthly many years ago. I'm going to have to paraphrase, since I don't have the reference, but it went something like:Definition: A zipple is a...
View ArticleAnswer by Dag Oskar Madsen for Parodies of abstruse mathematical writing
N. J. Wildberger: Let H be a load of hogwash.
View ArticleAnswer by The Masked Avenger for Parodies of abstruse mathematical writing
I recommend the book A Random Walk In Science. That should keep you busy for a while.
View ArticleAnswer by Todd Trimble for Parodies of abstruse mathematical writing
Of course, there's this old classic: http://bjornsmaths.blogspot.com/2005/11/how-to-catch-lion-in-sahara-desert.html
View ArticleAnswer by Francois Ziegler for Parodies of abstruse mathematical writing
Well there is C. E. Linderholm's Mathematics made difficult ("available on the internet")...Also, if I remember well, D. Nordon's Les mathématiques pures n'existent pas! has a pretty biting parody of a...
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Perhaps under the influence of a recent questionon perverse sheaves,in conjunction with the impending $\pi$-day (3/14/15 at 9:26:53),I recalled a long-ago parody of abstruse mathematical languagethat I...
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