buffon
Original: buffon on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Man with dark hair: ...and that's what makes Buffon's proof beautiful.
Panel 2:
Woman with light hair and glasses: Why is that beautiful?
Panel 3:
Man with dark hair: Well... it's elegant.
Panel 4:
Woman: What, because the proof delivers a lot of knowledge but the human reader doesn't have to do much work?
Panel 5:
Man: Precisely. To a mathematician, a beautiful proof is one so quickly stated that the afternoon remains open for playing with Rubik's cubes and making fun of social scientists.
Panel 6:
Woman: No wonder they started a cult around Pythagoras.
Man: He taught us to be lazy, that our children might know even greater laziness.
Votey:
A man with curly hair: I can solve a cube in 43 seconds while blindfolded and discoursing on how anthropology isn't a science.
Man with dark hair: ...and that's what makes Buffon's proof beautiful.
Panel 2:
Woman with light hair and glasses: Why is that beautiful?
Panel 3:
Man with dark hair: Well... it's elegant.
Panel 4:
Woman: What, because the proof delivers a lot of knowledge but the human reader doesn't have to do much work?
Panel 5:
Man: Precisely. To a mathematician, a beautiful proof is one so quickly stated that the afternoon remains open for playing with Rubik's cubes and making fun of social scientists.
Panel 6:
Woman: No wonder they started a cult around Pythagoras.
Man: He taught us to be lazy, that our children might know even greater laziness.
Votey:
A man with curly hair: I can solve a cube in 43 seconds while blindfolded and discoursing on how anthropology isn't a science.
Alt text
A four-and-six panel SMBC comic. A dark-haired man and a light-haired woman in glasses talk. He says "...and that's what makes Buffon's proof beautiful." She asks why it's beautiful; he answers "Well... it's elegant." She presses: is it because the proof delivers a lot of knowledge but the reader doesn't have to do much work? He replies "Precisely. To a mathematician, a beautiful proof is one so quickly stated that the afternoon remains open for playing with Rubik's cubes and making fun of social scientists." She quips that no wonder they started a cult around Pythagoras, and he concludes, gesturing, "He taught us to be lazy, that our children might know even greater laziness." Votey (aftercomic): a curly-haired man boasts in a speech bubble, "I can solve a cube in 43 seconds while blindfolded and discoursing on how anthropology isn't a science."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.