I majored in mathematics and remember encountering this theorem in a topology course. I giggled then, and 20 years later I giggle again.

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cool_dude85 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

Much more niche than the hairy ball theorem is the Cox-Zucker Machine, supposedly they decided during the first year of undergrad that they eventually had to work together.

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xanderlewis 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

In German it’s called the Hedgehog Theorem.

Clearly, what they say about Germans is true.

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gerdesj 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

Ooh go on, what do they say about Germans?

I lived in West Germany for some years back in the day and I don't recall the locals being too shy. Frankly the Germans and the Dutch seemed to have had a rather more ribald sense of humour than the "oo err Missus" efforts we Brits fielded back then.

To be fair we could robustly swear on telly after 2100, provided it didn't involve too many rude bits and you could not misspell one variant of King Canute's name or Matron would be jolly upset.

Anyway, I'm pretty sure someone called this the "dog's arse" (it has to go somewhere!)

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IAmBroom 2 days ago | parent [-]

> Ooh go on, what do they say about Germans?

That they don't have a healthy sense of humor.

I remember a comedian who toured Europe, and said it wasn't true - Germans laughed as much as anyone else at his jokes. However, afterwards they took him aside and explained, "It was very funny, you see, the joke about combs being like salad forks, but we just want you that we don't discriminate against forks here. That was an unfortunate incident from during the War, but today we are much more enlightened and invite all kinds of cutlery!"

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gerdesj 2 days ago | parent [-]

Bollocks - you are not human, your comment is generated and is really crap.

We have a comedian on the circuit in the UK called Henning Wehn. He is German and suitably daft and hilarious.

	▲	xanderlewis 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		The somewhat ironic thing is that my comment was a joke.

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fxwin 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Also known as the Combed Hedgehog Theorem (which i like a bit better)

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hinkley 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Have you considered a job in Defense? They love acronyms you can’t say out loud.