Theoretical Computer Science is just as useless as everything we mathematicians do.
Jennifer Tour ChayesWith a metric you can really go to town, otherwise it is just abstract nonsense.
Jennifer Tour ChayesCombinatorialists and analysts always have different names for everything, in order to keep themselves from interacting.
Jennifer Tour ChayesI described to my patent lawyer our new algorithm-that I was hoping to patent- about detecting clustering, that involved three probabilities ฮฑ , ฮฒ, ฮณ that add-up to 1, and mentioned that it is like "a three-sided coin". A few days later he came up with a patent application for a "three-sided-coin".
Jennifer Tour Chayes