[Newspoetry] MP Chainey

[Bill Wendling]

A Set Theory and Metric Spaces book asks Dick Cheney

Q: Let f and g be commuting maps on a complete metric space. Suppose that f
   is a strict contraction (g need not be continuous). Prove that there
   exists a unique joint fixed point for f and g.

A: We're all a little weary of the Clinton-Gore routine.

Q: Let M be a metric space. Prove that M is separable if and only if
   every collection of disjoint open sets of M is countable.

A: In the end, George W. Bush will defeat this vice president, and I will
   replace him [sic].

Q: Let X and Y be any metric spaces. Prove that the natural projection of
   X >< Y onto X is open (i.e., it sends open sets into open sets).

A: Politics has become a war by other means, an endless onslaught of
   accusation, a constant setting of groups one against the other...This
   is what Bill Bradley was up against, and others before him.

Q: Call a subset B of a set A cofinite if the complement of B in A is
   finite. If B and C are cofinite subsets of A, prove that B intersect C
   is cofinite.

A: He will show us that national leaders can be true to their word...and
   that they can get things done by reaching across the partisan aisle,
   and working with political opponents in good faith and common purpose.

Q: Let C be a chain which every subset has a top element or a bottom
   element (or both). Prove that C consists of a well-ordered set
   surmounted by the dual of a well-ordered set.

A: Does anyone, Republican or Democrat [there can be not others. -ed],
   seriously believe that under Mr. Gore, the next four years would be
   any different from the last eight? They came in together, now let us
   see them off together.

(Questions from _Set Theory and Metric Spaces_, by Kaplansky, I. (c) 1972,
 Answers by Dick Cheney as reported by CNN.com, (c) 2000)

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|| Bill Wendling			wendling at ganymede.isdn.uiuc.edu