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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>>… As others have put it, "most people have had nowhere near as much sex as most people imagine that most people do.")…<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>We math geeks are so lonely any reference to sex is funny. Any gathering of math geeks reminds one of high school in some ways, depending on who one hung out with in high school.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Sigh.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Regarding the suggestive math story, we could improve it perhaps by replacing the rape scene with a situation in which a maiden was confronted with opportunity by a handsome postulate but had deep reservations and internal conflict because he was unproven. That would bring in Goedel’s Incompleteness theorem. Then, if very cleverly written, it might be unclear if anything untoward had occurred or not, introducing Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The mathematicians and physicist would love it. For normal people, they would walk away wondering what in the hell is wrong with us.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The best analogy would be xkcd comics. If you love those things, then you probably get exactly what I am talking about.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>