Quotes and jokes(?) from lecturers

• (during a clever proof in number theory)
  "Watch closely"
• (In Character Theory, while finding the characters of S₅ ):
  "That's why I've called this character ₁; it's a "new one"
• (Permutation groups):
  "...so we have e, and that's not a political statement
• (1st yr chemistry)
  "The first person to ask when the end-of-module test is will be shot, the second hung, and the third drawn and quartered also."
  (I gathered from this that there wasn't one)
• (Character theory)
  "I think if I'd asked you to work with S₅ at the beginning of the last course, you'd probably have run out of the room screaming."
• (analysis)
  "This is Jason the Giraffe"
• (A-level maths, staring at a 3d vector problem on the board)
  "Oh dear..."
• (Linear algebra)
  "This is a good book on the subject. How do I know? Because I wrote it." Contributed by Phil Younger
• (Analysis)
  "If you don't understand, it's in the first line of the course" Contributed by Phil Younger
• (Probability and measure)
  The formula I am about to show you is completely useless...
• (A-level biology)
  What's required for photosynthesis?... (very long silence)... Apples, lollipops..?
• (Lebesgue integration)
  It is a general principle of bus travel that there is a unique bus that it caught; namely, the first one that comes along
• (Number Theory)
  "I think we'll skip the rest of this proof; it's getting annoying, isn't it?"
• (Number Theory)
  "This is quite a difficult question, but you don't need to know anything to do it".
• (Number Theory)
  "2^p-1 is even, 2^p-1 is odd."