[Math] Parodies of abstruse mathematical writing

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Perhaps under the influence of a recent question
on perverse sheaves,
in conjunction with the impending $\pi$-day (3/14/15 at 9:26:53),
I recalled a long-ago parody of abstruse mathematical language
that I can no longer remember in detail nor find by searching.

I am not seeking merely
"examples of colorful language,"
as in that earlier MO question, but rather parodies
almost in the Alan Sokal Fashionable Nonsense sense
(although I don't think he parodied abstract mathematics directly).

I am partly motivated by the possible educational advantage
of self-mockery (or self-awareness),
tangentially related to
an MESE question, "Wonder as Motivation."
But I ask here to tap into the likely greater density
of mathematicians working in abstract fields ripe for parody.

Q. Can you provide examples of (or pointers to) intentionally comic parodies of abstruse
mathematical language, written by knowledgeable mathematicians so that they
could (in another universe) make mathematical sense.

Best Answer

Is this what you're looking for?

http://thatsmathematics.com/mathgen/

Mathgen is an random math paper generator, based on SCIgen which does the same for computer science papers. It will provide you with an unlimited supply of abstruse nonsense: definitions, theorems, proofs, references, and all.

Here is a sample title and abstract.

"Some Reducibility Results for Ultra-Universally Nonnegative Arrows"

Assume we are given a contra-intrinsic subring $\mathscr{{W}}$. Recently, there has been much interest in the description of manifolds. We show that $\| t' \| > \mathbf{{b}}$. So is it possible to describe compactly ultra-prime systems? Hence recent interest in finitely Huygens--Hilbert, closed, meager groups has centered on describing canonical homomorphisms.

(Disclosure: edited by Nate Eldredge, author of Mathgen, to include additional details.)

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