Quotes and jokes(?) from lecturers
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(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"
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(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)
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(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."
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(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
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(Analysis)
"If you don't understand, it's in the first line of the course" Contributed by Phil Younger
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(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)
"2p-1 is even, 2p-1 is odd."
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