My God, this lecturer is boring. Undoubtedly the boringest bore who ever wasted the myriad subatomic particles required for existence. He’s like a trip down Boring Street on International Day of the Boring while the Boring Military Marching Band play the Boring National Anthem in the key of boring.
— Me, SMS to Laurie
Cayley’s Theorem, and proof, in six lines. Written during a group theory exam.
A group of finite mensuration
Conforms, by Cayley’s invocation,
Unto a group of permutationsAn element therein shall find
A rearrangement of its kind
And to it by its action bind.
Sometime near exams, 2004…
Figure 1: Student scattering process. Annihilation of student by exam, and subsequent scattering from tavyon. Multiple scatterings may completely deplete tavyon of beer.