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70th Birthday song for Walter Burgess (based on SuperCalifragilisticexpialidocius)

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Channel: lookyus · 2009 · Music

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Written by MaryAnn in honour of Dr. Walter D. Burgess, Ring Theorist and Professor Emeritus of Mathematics, on the occasion of his 70th Birthday (unless he has lost count.)
 

MARYANN(speaking):
Cartan Determinant Conjecture and its converse! 

TOMMY(speaking):
That's not a word!

MARYANN:
(speaking) Of course it's a word. And unless I'm very much mistaken, the great Dr. Walter Burgess proved it a rather useful one.

 

MARYANN: (singing) While doing calculations, a man like Walter Burgess

Just keeps on doing Math until a theory soon emerges

And then he gets the notion that he'd better write it down

The wierdest words, you've ever heard, and this is how they sound:


Cartan Determinant Conjecture and its converse!
Even though you're thinking that it simply couldn't sound worse
Walter makes it easy and you'll never have a Math curse
Cartan Determinant Conjecture and its converse!
Um diddle um diddle um diddle ay
Um diddle um diddle um diddle ay

PAUL:
(speaking) But it doesn't mean anything!

MARYANN:
(speaking) Ask Walter Burgess what it means!  He's a ring theorist and he made those words up!


MARYANN: (singing)

When stone-age men did math, simply counting would suffice.
Though if they'd heard ring theory, they'd have used it once or twice.
I'm sure Egyptian pharaohs would have grasped it in a jiff.
Then every single pyramid would bear this hieroglyph! Oh!


Isomorphism problem for finite dimensional diagram!

Say it loud and animals will simply want to run and scram
And though most of us common folk don't really even give a damn  
Isomorphism problem for finite dimensional diagram! 
Um diddle um diddle um diddle ay
Um diddle um diddle um diddle ay
Um diddle um diddle um diddle ay
Um diddle um diddle um diddle ay

The Druids could have carved it on their mighty monolith 
The ancient Greeks, I'm certain, could have used it in their myths. 
I'm sure the Roman Empire only entered the abyss
Because those Latin scholars never did their Math like this!
 

Using... Quasi-stratified algebras of Liu and Paquette! 

Are certainly enough to make you break into a sweat

It seems as though ring theory is as tough as it can get

Quasi-stratified algebras of Liu and Paquette!  
Um diddle um diddle um diddle ay
Um diddle um diddle um diddle ay
Um diddle um diddle um diddle ay
Um diddle um diddle um diddle ay!

MARYANN(speaking):
Of course, you can say it backwards, which is Paquette and Liu algebras stratified-quasi 

TOMMY(speaking):
She may be tricky, but she's bloody good!

MARYANN (singing):
So if you've lost your pencil, and you've got to do some Math.
Just call on Walter Burgess then you're back on the right path.

He'll show you self-injective simple Pierce sheaves and such things

As generalizations of quasihereditary rings!

 

Oh! Homological aspects of semigroup gradings on rings!

Don't even try to tell yourself that there is no such thing

Of theories such as this one Walter Burgess is the king

Homological aspects of semigroup gradings on rings!

Um diddle um diddle um diddle ay
Um diddle um diddle um diddle ay
Um diddle um diddle um diddle ay
Um diddle um diddle um diddle ay!

 

The injective hull of S-sets, S a semi lattice of groups!

Go ahead and google it, yes google til you droop

If you haven't heard of it you're sure not in the loop

The injective hull of S-sets, S a semi lattice of groups!

Um diddle um diddle um diddle ay
Um diddle um diddle um diddle ay
Um diddle um diddle um diddle ay
Um diddle um diddle um diddle ay!

 

The N-metric completion of regular rings!

The commutative von Neumann and the joy such theory brings

And once you really delve right in you'll feel like you have wings

The N-metric completion of regular rings!

Um diddle um diddle um diddle ay
Um diddle um diddle um diddle ay
Um diddle um diddle um diddle ay
Um diddle um diddle um diddle ay!

 

(Big finish) These are the great theories of the famous Walter Burgess!!!!!!!!

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