The man with the Y Combinator tattoo

Re:The man with the Y Combinator tattoo by ivankirigin on Friday September 21, 2007 @08:40PM (#58211)

I'm thinking about getting a tattoo. The goal is to get something that is aesthetically pleasing in an abstract sense, to avoid thinking something is ugly years later.

I was thinking about the great wave, a dragon, a dragon fly or something else made up of PCB layout lines. I think that would look very nice on a forearm. http://www.imakethings.com/2007/09/14/image-to-pcb-app-and-p...

Most science tattoos are very, very ugly. And what if maxwell's equations or the Y-combinator get invalidated in the future :-P ?

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Re:The man with the Y Combinator tattoo by centipede on Saturday September 22, 2007 @04:15PM (#58382)

Maxwell can get invalidated. Math can't.

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Re:The man with the Y Combinator tattoo by axiom on Saturday September 22, 2007 @04:38PM (#58388)

Ahem. Russell paradox.

Granted it's been a while, but one can never be too careful.

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Re:The man with the Y Combinator tattoo by kcl on Saturday September 22, 2007 @05:02PM (#58396)

For the truly paranoid only:

Witness the evolution of 'V-E+F=2' since Euler's time:

http://www.amazon.com/Proofs-Refutations-Logic-Mathematical-...

Is it right? Is it wrong? What does it mean to even BE a 'face' ?

Although I guess the worst thing that could happen in this situation is you change your explanation of the tattoo, and not the tattoo itself.

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