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PDQ Shor, Peter Shor's smarter brother, passed away last week. PDQ was a Physicist/Computer Scientist/Mathematician/Astrologer/Psychic at the University of Northern South Dakota in Wakpala.
Dr. Phineas Dominic Quincy Shor III, PhD, MBA, BLT, received his education at Europa U. during one of his many alien abductions. He ended up in South Dakota after having fled every other state.
He was most famous for the concept of unnatural proofs, collected in his anthology Proofs from the Other Book, which includes his classic "interpretive dance proof" of the Pythagorean theorem. Critics complain the proof only handles the case where the right angle is on the left.
His follow up book, Proofs from the Crypt, contains his masterpiece, a 1237 page proof that conclusively shows that the empty set contains no irrational numbers.
Like his brother he's moved to the quantum space, reverse engineering Peter's work by giving a doubly exponential time quantum algorithm for multiplying numbers. He created the innovative dipping bird quantum error collection machine that constantly monitors a quantum machine collapsing all entanglement. Apple bought the device for $327 million which immediately destroyed their plans for a QiPhone.Sadly PDQ passed away from paranormal causes last week. Or was it last year? No one is quite sure. He donated his body to pseudoscience, currently lying in state in an undisclosed state. We hardly knew you.
With apologies to Peter Schickele. This April Fools post was inspired by the complexity class PDQMA.
Your posts have hit a new low. This one is an abomination -- a defamation of a fine scientist. Shame on you.
ReplyDeleteI take both to be April 1st jokes. I at least enjoyed the post and it almost fooled. Well, your response almost got me too, almost thought u meant what u wrote. But it's all good now that it's April 2nd.
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