I made up a sweatshirt with this on it, making the design and typeface resemble those for The Blair Witch Project. I even made the geometric construction used for the WoA look like that “hanged man” glyph they used in the Blair Witch logo.
I got ZERO reaction. Nada. Zip. Zilch.
I’ve worn the shirt to MIT. I’ve worn it at Science Fiction Conventions. I’m wearing it today at work. Nobody even looks twice (and I may not be able to detect feminine interest, but I can tell when someone’s looking at my shirt).
Is this just TOO esoteric? Or do people who know what it’s about and see the shirt just think that it’s a stupid idea?
For me? Yes. But I learned a little today, which is cool!
When Kill Bill was a brand new movie, I had a friend make me a T-Shirt that read (in a cool font) Wiggle your big toe. About one person in seven thousand got the reference.
I have a BS in math, and it never came up in class. I would never have known what it was if I hadn’t happened upon it one day in a section of the CRC Handbook.
Another vote for pretty obscure. I recognised the name in the thread title and am familiar with it as an odd bit of mathematical folklore, but I was never taught anything about it, nor have I ever seen the curve come up anywhere in practice. So not something I’d assume that another mathematically knowledgeable person had necessarily run into.
