Mathematicians Have Modest Goals

[George Jones]

From the Introduction to
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.11285

"Since the dawn of time, human beings have asked some fundamental questions: who are we? why are we here? is there life after death? Unable to answer any of these, in this paper we will consider cohomology classes on a compact projective manifold that have a property analogous to the Hard-Lefschetz Theorem and Hodge-Riemann bilinear relations."

 

[Swamp Thing]

It would have been really cool if a paper began,

"Since the dawn of time, human beings have asked some fundamental questions: who are we? why are we here? is there life after death? Unable to answer any of these, in this paper we will prove the Riemann Hypothesis."