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A Bundle of Topologists?

Scientific American blogger Evelyn Lamb's prelude to the 2014 Joint Mathematics Meetings in Baltimore offered a list of words with which to refer to mathematicians en masse.

Lamb suggests that "a proof of mathematicians" be the official collective for mathematicians in general, and expresses her fondness for such specialized collectives as "a tuple of number theorists" and "a distribution of probabilists."

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Friday, January 31, 2014