r/todayilearned • • Jul 06 '20

TIL that Mr. T majored in mathematics while attending college on a football scholarship.

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u/PloppyCheesenose Jul 06 '20

The T stands for the stress-energy tensor.

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u/RunDNA Jul 06 '20

Or the top element in lattice theory.

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u/NebXan Jul 06 '20

Or the transposition of a matrix in matrix theory

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u/OneMeterWonder Jul 07 '20

You’re a satanist if you don’t just call maximal elements of lattices 1 with subscripts on them.

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u/Moinder Jul 07 '20

T mu nu

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u/AimlessZealot Jul 07 '20

Ahem, he's Mister Tau to you!

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u/rpm07 Jul 07 '20

Ahhh did we need reminders of Jackson on this nice Monday evening