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> 0.001%

How did you come up with this number? You took 100,000 samples and 99,999 of them agreed? I don't personally know 100,000 mathematicians.



I first estimated 1% but decided that that is much too high.

But let’s make an experiment. Let an average high school student memorize these names:

A Calabi-Yau manifold is a compact, complex Kähler manifold with a trivial first Chern class.

And now let her explain what the above definition is about.


If anything, naming them after people (especially people with uncommon names) makes them easier to google.




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