mathkin/cards/monsters

monster_name
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Name: Monster name
Class: Monster class
Description: Text describing the monster and its abilities.
Enhancements: Text describing enhancements.
Illustration: monster_name.png
Bad stuff: Text describing bad stuff
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Notes: Comments which should not appear on the actual card.

abelian_grape
Level: 5
Name: Abelian grape
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Enhancements: -3 against algebraicists
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Notes: This is a pun on the term "abelian group".

lobachevsky_monster
Level: 50
Name: Analytic and algebraic topology of locally Euclidean metrization of infinitely differentiable Riemannian manifold
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Description: This you know from nothing.  What you're going to do?
Enhancements: -50 against Lobachevsky.  He has a friend in Minsk.
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Notes: From Tom Lehrer's song "Lobachevsky"

scary_diagram
Level: 10
Name: Large and scary diagram
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Bad stuff: Does not pursue algebraicists and category theorists.  They can just chase it, and it disappears.
Notes: Diagram as in "commutative diagram"

bear_category
Level: 10
Name: Bear Category
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ugly_integral
Level: 20
Name: Really ugly integral
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Enhancements: +5 against algebraicists, -15 against analysists.
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coffee_cup
Level: 1
Name: Coffee cup
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Enhancements: -1 against topologists.  They just eat it.
Bad stuff: Does not pursue.
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hairy_ball
Level: 5
Name: Hairy ball
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Notes: The ball from the Hairy ball theorem

butterfly_lemma
Level: 10
Name: Butterfly Lemma
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Description: -5 against algebraicists
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zorns_lemon
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Name: Zorn's Lemon
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Description: It is yellow, sour and equivalent to the axiom of choice.
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Notes: Pun on "Zorn's lemma"

diagonal_elephant
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Name: Cantor's diagonal elephant
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Description: It is big, grey and proves the uncountability of the reals.
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Notes: Pun on "Cantor's diagonal argument"

calculus_textbook
Level: 5
Name: Calculus textbook
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Enhancements: -4 against analysisisists.
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really_thin_textbook
Level: 30
Name: Really thin textbook
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ugly_typography
Level: 5
Name: Ugly typography
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Enhancements: +45 against TeXnicians
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categorical_definition
Level: 10
Name: Confusing categorical definition of familiar concept
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Enhancements: -9 against category theorists
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negative_epsilon
Level: 1
Name: ``Let $\epsilon < 0$, \ldots''
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Enhancements: +10 against analysists, who are extremely confused by a negative $\epsilon$.
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odd_prime
Level: 2
Name: Odd prime
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Notes: "2 is the only odd prime"

greek_letter
Level: 5
Name: Strange Greek letter that no-one knows how to pronounce.
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simple_arithmetic_problem
Level: 1
Name: Simple arithmetic problem
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Enhancements: +5 against PhD students, +10 against professors
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