Monday, April 12, 2010

Fun with Word Clouds

Sally has posted a couple of word clouds from a recent paper and presentation. It made me think how much more...well, boring, a word cloud from a math paper would be. I don't write papers very often, but here, for instance, is the cloud from my last one (via wordle.net):



See?

2 comments:

Sally said...

"Richness" is the most surprising word on it for me.

Tam said...

Ah, yes. The "richness" axiom of a Laguerre plane specifies that it has enough stuff (points, circles, whatever) to be interesting. I think it's a somewhat common term in geometry.