mathkin/cards/monsters

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
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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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Notes: Illustration: "5 + 8 = ?" or something similar

oral_exam
Level: 10
Name: Oral exam
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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.
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general_abstract_nonsense
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Name: General Abstract Nonsense
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Enhancements: Does not fight against category theorists.
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Notes: Euphemism for «category theory».

general_topology
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Name: General Topology
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Enhancements: Does not fight against topologists.
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cantor_set
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Name: Cantor set
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monster_group
Level: 808017424794512875886459904961710757005754368000000000
Name: Monster group
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relatively_prime_number
Level: 91
Name: Relatively prime number
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existentialist_theorem 
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Name: Existentialist Theorem 
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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. 
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least_common_divisor
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Name: Least common Denominator
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Description: Some Denominators are less equal than others, this happens to be the least one. 
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Bad stuff: Bad stuff: You < LCD and will be the new LCD, lose one level
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greatest_common_divisor
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Name: Greatest common Divisor
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Description: A champion of the commoners, but is rather large. 
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Bad stuff: Your personality is split and you will have to play along with half the levels you had. 
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Level: 
Name: Moebious stripper 
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Description: You fall in love, but the feelings are one sided. 
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Bad stuff: Discard items of x value to the stripper.  
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Name: Holy Integrail 
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Description: The ultimate goal of mathematicians. 
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Name: Bad math pun 
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Description: It is really bad, you don't want to hear it. 
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Name: Left as an excercize for the reader 
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Description: This is the boudaries of science. 
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Name: Dragon curve 
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Description: Fear it's fiery breath. 
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Name: Gelatinous Tesseract 
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Description: Don't think about it's too many dimensions. 
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Name: Bell curve 
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Description: This monster is average, with a certainity of 90 \%. 
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Name: Average monster 
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Description: It's average. 
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Name: Median monster 
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Description: It goes with the flow. 
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Name: Pythagorean theorem 
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Description: Don't read too much into it. 
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Name: Irrational number 
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Description: Do NOT try to reason with it. 
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Name: Rational monster 
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Description: You may try to reason with it. 
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Name: Mean value theorem 
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Description: It is really mean. 
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Name: Erdös
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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. 
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Level: 
Name: Sperical cow in vacuum 
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Description: Seems rather sad. 
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Name: Root of all evil 
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Description: Better not square it. 
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