A Jacobian, but make it Nature-approved
seanmcdonaldxyz · x · 2026-07-20
A joke post riffs on academic prestige: a Jacobian is not truly a Jacobian until Nature has peer-reviewed it, just as Champagne only counts if it comes from a specific region in France.
The punchline is the absurdly elitist framing of basic math as something that needs elite journal validation.