It is no secret that WLBOTT is interested in jumping into the highly lucrative book review game – a direct challenge to the Reviewer Cartel (we’re looking at you, New York Times).
Our complex book review criteria (the subject of a future BLOTT) led naturally to the discussion of continuous versus non-continuous functions.
To get us started, here are some of our favorite discontinuous functions:
And a few of our favorite continuous functions:
But our favorite continuous function is the saddle, which simultaneously has a local minima and local maxima (the minmax point).
By Nicoguaro – Own work, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=20570051
The Monkey Saddle
And our old friend and saddle-subset, the Monkey Saddle…
Smelt Petal
Oh, the rabbit hole! Smelt Petal!
If Georgia O’Keeffe were a mathematician named Smelt?
Who is this mysterious “Smelt”?
Perhaps it is an incorrect assumption that Smelt is a person. Perhaps this mathematical point was named after a different definition of “smelt”.
Yes, yes, I know. We’ve dealt with smelt before….
The interwebs are a little thin on smelting humor, but there are a few gems….
Perhaps a group of mathematicians were caught up in the heady magic of the Smelt Parade?
The road goes on forever, and the party never ends….
And what aboot Cleopatra?
3 replies on “Smelt Petal: a Serious Semi-Sequitur”
I woke up and smelt the coffee and then got trapped in this rabbit hole. That’s 20 minutes of my life I will never get back.
Yes, but in a good way, right?
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