A collection · 1 paper
A curated anthology of collected papers — some in earnest, some gloriously satirical — set with the care of a mathematics journal. Filed, sealed, and numbered like the leather-bound volume this pretends to be.
D. Verlaine · C. Adjudicator
We prove that the classical real-valued theory of pricing is insufficient to describe the behavior of luxury goods, and that any consistent model must be defined over the complex field C\mathbb{C}C. We introduce the Veblen residue, demonstrate that the phrase "Price on Demand" corresponds to a pole of order one at the point at infinity on the Riemann sphere of desire, and establish the Fundamental Theorem of Luxury: every non-constant luxury price has at least one root in the consumer's solvency.