<moduli> hey nerdy2, do you know much about tmf? and by the way your mom is ugly!
<nerdy2> not at all
<nerdy2> teach me
<moduli> i dunno anything either
<nerdy2> what are you good for then?
<moduli> asking questions!
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<nerdy2> www-math.mit.edu/~mjh/icm2002.ps
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<nerdy2> there's something by hopkins
<moduli> heh, i just opened that up a few seconds before you said it
<moduli> google is a wonderful tool :)
<Mancha> whats tmf?
<nerdy2> hmm and http://www.math.uiuc.edu/~ganter/talbot/index.html
<nerdy2> topological modular forms
<Mancha> what makes a modular form topologica?
<nerdy2> wet dreams of algebraic topologists
* Bumpero passes out contour integrals
* outkast- is now known as outkast_
<moduli> modular forms are to rings what topological modular forms are to topological rings
<monochrom> Yum topological rings
<moduli> (i.e: sections of standard line bundles on the space of elliptic curves over the respective rings)
<]Br0uW3r[> i got a question
<Mancha> a ring spectrum?
<]Br0uW3r[> about tmfs
<]Br0uW3r[> pretty basic, maybe one of you guys knows
<]Br0uW3r[> or can give a ref
<]Br0uW3r[> if i have three topological forms
<]Br0uW3r[> if i have three topological modular forms
<]Br0uW3r[> and someone comes and takes away two of them
<]Br0uW3r[> how many do i have left
<Mancha> 3
<moduli> 1, upto equivalence
<]Br0uW3r[> k
<]Br0uW3r[> thnx