giggling
by petro c.k.
in the lecture hall
Cox-Zucker machine
Within arithmetic geometry, the “Cox-Zucker machine” is an algorithm created by David A. Cox and Steven Zucker to determine the intersection numbers of elliptical surface sections.
When Cox and Zucker met as first-year graduate students at Princeton University, “we realized that we had to write a joint paper because the combination of our last names, in the usual alphabetical order, is remarkably obscene.” Five years later, as members of the faculty at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, they followed through with their plan.
Further reading:
‘Cox-Zucker machine’, Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cox-Zucker_machine
‘Intersection numbers of sections of elliptic surfaces’, Cox, D.A. & Zucker, S., 1979, Invent Math 53, 1–44. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01403189
Author bio:
petro c. k. laughs at life’s absurdities. And occasionally writes about them. His work appears in numerous haiku journals and experimental literary/poetry magazines, and he will have debut experimental haiku and dada poetry collections out in 2024. He encourages nanononsense at dadakuku.com You can catch up with petro on Twitter here: @petro_ck
Check out other sciku by petro c. k. here: ‘Saturn’s Moons’, ‘Young Star’, and ‘Marble’.