{"id":8673,"date":"2012-01-05T07:00:01","date_gmt":"2012-01-05T07:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2012\/01\/05\/a-joke-for-mathematicians-on-the-weyl-schism\/"},"modified":"2012-01-05T07:00:01","modified_gmt":"2012-01-05T07:00:01","slug":"a-joke-for-mathematicians-on-the-weyl-schism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20120105-01\/?p=8673","title":{"rendered":"A joke for mathematicians: On the Weyl schism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> In one of my mathematics classes, the professor noted (and freely admitted that the joke was not original with him), &#8220;There are essentially two groups of mathematicians: Those that have read <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hermann_Weyl\">Weyl<\/a> and those that have not. And once you enter the first group, you will never be understood by anyone in the second group.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p> I guess it&#8217;s only funny to mathematicians. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In one of my mathematics classes, the professor noted (and freely admitted that the joke was not original with him), &#8220;There are essentially two groups of mathematicians: Those that have read Weyl and those that have not. And once you enter the first group, you will never be understood by anyone in the second group.&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-8673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>In one of my mathematics classes, the professor noted (and freely admitted that the joke was not original with him), &#8220;There are essentially two groups of mathematicians: Those that have read Weyl and those that have not. And once you enter the first group, you will never be understood by anyone in the second group.&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}