Five Pages on Cake
If you read our recent column “The Mystery of the Yellow Cake” (in The Guardian) about a mathematics paper called “The Yellow Cake,” and were bemused or confused, here’s a remedy.
The phrase “yellow cake” is not explained or even mentioned anywhere in “The Yellow Cake.” That is the mystery.
We have just received a five-page letter from Andrzej Roslanowski, the co-author of “The Yellow Cake.” Professor Roslanowski appears to be bemusedly hopping mad about the column. In his letter, Professor Roslanowski says:
Everybody can easily answer this question: the yellow cake is a kind of
coffee cake, something small, sweet and yellow that goes nicely with your afternoon
coffee. It is yellow because of yolks, I believe. At least I would avoid those cakes with
artificial colouring.
Our column about the mystery of the yellow cake, he gently informs us, is:
mostly uninformed and empty (and in non-empty places incorrect) …
Read “The Yellow Cake” itself here.
See our column about the mystery of the yellow cake, here.
See a note from a friend of the math journal editor who handled “The Yellow Cake,” here.
Read Professor Roslanowski’s entire letter here.
Read Professor Roslanowski’s newly-added product warning label for the yellow cake, here.
See the point here.