| PDQ Shor |
PDQ Shor, Peter Shor’s smarter brother, passed away last week. PDQ was a Physicist/Computer Scientist/Mathematician/Astrologer/Psychic at the University of Northern South Dakota in Wakpala.
Dr. Phineas Dominic Quincy Shor III, PhD, MBA, BLT, received his education at Europa U. during one of his many alien abductions. He ended up in South Dakota after having fled every other state.
He was most famous for the concept of unnatural proofs, collected in his anthology Proofs from the Other Book, which includes his classic “interpretive dance proof” of the Pythagorean theorem. Critics complain the proof only handles the case where the right angle is on the left.
His follow up book, Proofs from the Crypt, contains his masterpiece, a 1237 page proof that conclusively shows that the empty set contains no irrational numbers.
Like his brother he’s moved to the quantum space, reverse engineering Peter’s work by giving a doubly exponential time quantum algorithm for multiplying numbers. He created the innovative dipping bird quantum error collection machine that constantly monitors a quantum machine collapsing all entanglement. Apple bought the device for $327 million which immediately destroyed their plans for a QiPhone.PDQ used the proceeds to create the perpetual Turing machine, guaranteed to never halt. Until it did.
Sadly PDQ passed away from paranormal causes last week. Or was it last year? No one is quite sure. He donated his body to pseudoscience, currently lying in state in an undisclosed state. We hardly knew you.
With apologies to Peter Schickele. This April Fools post was inspired by the complexity class PDQMA.