monster_name Level: # 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 Levels: # Treasures: # Notes: Comments which should not appear on the actual card. abelian_grape Level: 5 Name: Abelian grape Class: Description: Enhancements: -3 against algebraicists Bad stuff: 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 Class: Description: This you know from nothing. What you're going to do? Enhancements: -50 against Lobachevsky. He has a friend in Minsk. Bad stuff: Notes: From Tom Lehrer's song "Lobachevsky" scary_diagram Level: 10 Name: Large and scary diagram Class: Description: Enhancements: 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 Class: Description: Enhancements: Bad stuff: Levels: Treasures: Notes: ugly_integral Level: 20 Name: Really ugly integral Class: Description: Enhancements: +5 against algebraicists, -15 against analysists. Bad stuff: Levels: Treasures: Notes: coffee_cup Level: 1 Name: Coffee cup Class: Description: Enhancements: -1 against topologists. They just eat it. Bad stuff: Does not pursue. Levels: Treasures: Notes: hairy_ball Level: 5 Name: Hairy ball Class: Description: Enhancements: Bad stuff: Levels: Treasures: Notes: The ball from the Hairy ball theorem butterfly_lemma Level: 10 Name: Butterfly Lemma Class: Description: -5 against algebraicists Enhancements: Bad stuff: Levels: Treasures: Notes: zorns_lemon Level: Name: Zorn's Lemon Class: Description: It is yellow, sour and equivalent to the axiom of choice. Enhancements: Bad stuff: Levels: Treasures: Notes: Pun on "Zorn's lemma" diagonal_elephant Level: Name: Cantor's diagonal elephant Class: Description: It is big, grey and proves the uncountability of the reals. Enhancements: Bad stuff: Levels: Treasures: Notes: Pun on "Cantor's diagonal argument" calculus_textbook Level: 5 Name: Calculus textbook Class: Description: Enhancements: -4 against analysisisists. Bad stuff: Levels: Treasures: Notes: really_thin_textbook Level: 30 Name: Really thin textbook Class: Description: Enhancements: Bad stuff: Levels: Treasures: Notes: ugly_typography Level: 5 Name: Ugly typography Class: Description: Enhancements: +45 against TeXnicians Bad stuff: Levels: Treasures: Notes: categorical_definition Level: 10 Name: Confusing categorical definition of familiar concept Class: Description: Enhancements: -9 against category theorists Bad stuff: Levels: Treasures: Notes: negative_epsilon Level: 1 Name: ``Let $\epsilon < 0$, \ldots'' Class: Description: Enhancements: +10 against analysists, who are extremely confused by a negative $\epsilon$. Bad stuff: Levels: Treasures: Notes: odd_prime Level: 2 Name: Odd prime Class: Description: Enhancements: Bad stuff: Levels: Treasures: Notes: "2 is the only odd prime" greek_letter Level: 5 Name: Strange Greek letter that no-one knows how to pronounce. Class: Description: Enhancements: Bad stuff: Levels: Treasures: Notes: simple_arithmetic_problem Level: 1 Name: Simple arithmetic problem Class: Description: Enhancements: +5 against PhD students, +10 against professors Bad stuff: Levels: Treasures: Notes: Illustration: "5 + 8 = ?" or something similar oral_exam Level: 10 Name: Oral exam Class: Description: You have one minute to prove a diagram lemma. Then roll a die to determine your grade. One or two means you fail and get the bad stuff. Enhancements: Bad stuff: Levels: Treasures: Notes: general_abstract_nonsense Level: Name: General Abstract Nonsense Class: Description: Enhancements: Does not fight against category theorists. Bad stuff: Levels: Treasures: Notes: Euphemism for «category theory». general_topology Level: Name: General Topology Class: Description: Enhancements: Does not fight against topologists. Bad stuff: Levels: Treasures: Notes: cantor_set Level: Name: Cantor set Class: Description: Enhancements: Bad stuff: Levels: Treasures: Notes: monster_group Level: 808017424794512875886459904961710757005754368000000000 Name: Monster group Class: Description: Enhancements: Bad stuff: Levels: Treasures: Notes: relatively_prime_number Level: 91 Name: Relatively prime number Class: Description: Enhancements: Bad stuff: Levels: Treasures: Notes: existentialist_theorem Level: Name: Existentialist Theorem Class: Description: Stubbornly holds that the most important of all philosophic thought is to deal with the conditions and existence of each individual theorems derivates and corollaries. YOU do not happen to be one of them, prepare to die. Enhancements: Bad stuff: Levels: Treasures: Notes: least_common_divisor Level: Name: Least common Denominator Class: Description: Some Denominators are less equal than others, this happens to be the least one. Enhancements: Bad stuff: Bad stuff: You < LCD and will be the new LCD, lose one level Levels: Treasures: Notes: greatest_common_divisor Level: Name: Greatest common Divisor Class: Description: A champion of the commoners, but is rather large. Enhancements: Bad stuff: Your personality is split and you will have to play along with half the levels you had. Levels: Treasures: Notes: Level: Name: Moebious stripper Class: Description: You fall in love, but the feelings are one sided. Enhancements: Bad stuff: Discard items of x value to the stripper. Levels: Treasures: Notes: Level: Name: Holy Integrail Class: Description: The ultimate goal of mathematicians. Enhancements: Bad stuff: Levels: Treasures: Notes: Level: Name: Bad math pun Class: Description: It is really bad, you don't want to hear it. Enhancements: Bad stuff: Levels: Treasures: Notes: Level: Name: Left as an excercize for the reader Class: Description: This is the boudaries of science. Enhancements: Bad stuff: Levels: Treasures: Notes: Level: Name: Dragon curve Class: Description: Fear it's fiery breath. Enhancements: Bad stuff: Levels: Treasures: Notes: Level: Name: Gelatinous Tesseract Class: Description: Don't think about it's too many dimensions. Enhancements: Bad stuff: Levels: Treasures: Notes: Level: Name: Bell curve Class: Description: This monster is average, with a certainity of 90 \%. Enhancements: Bad stuff: Levels: Treasures: Notes: Level: Name: Average monster Class: Description: It's average. Enhancements: Bad stuff: Levels: Treasures: Notes: Level: Name: Median monster Class: Description: It goes with the flow. Enhancements: Bad stuff: Levels: Treasures: Notes: Level: Name: Pythagorean theorem Class: Description: Don't read too much into it. Enhancements: Bad stuff: Levels: Treasures: Notes: Level: Name: Irrational number Class: Description: Do NOT try to reason with it. Enhancements: Bad stuff: Levels: Treasures: Notes: Level: Name: Rational monster Class: Description: You may try to reason with it. Enhancements: Bad stuff: Levels: Treasures: Notes: Level: Name: Mean value theorem Class: Description: It is really mean. Enhancements: Bad stuff: Levels: Treasures: Notes: Level: Name: Erdös Class: Description: It is gonna be really tough. Will not pursue anyone without a Erdös number. Bad stuff. professors and doctorates must skip their next turn while busy writing a paper with him. Enhancements: Bad stuff: Levels: Treasures: Notes: Level: Name: Sperical cow in vacuum Class: Description: Seems rather sad. Enhancements: Bad stuff: Levels: Treasures: Notes: Level: Name: Root of all evil Class: Description: Better not square it. Enhancements: Bad stuff: Levels: Treasures: Notes: pair_of_pants Level: Name: Pair of pants Class: Description: Enhancements: Bad stuff: Levels: Treasures: Notes: Se http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pair_of_pants