Oh, do I have a funny story for you today. This one comes from one of my classes. My professor was telling us about another mathematician. I don't remember his name. It's probably not that important. He went to City College way back in the 1930s. He was in his physics class, and he challenged the professor with a question.
"What exactly is a surface integral?"
The professor laughed a little and said, "That's MORONIC! It says right in the name... an integral along a surface."
To which the student (a future mathematician/professor) said, "Oh, I see. Just like a Riemann integral is an integral along a Riemann."
HAA!
An integral along a Riemann. Get it?
Fucking hilarious!
I love that math classes can be so funny. SO funny!
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Wednesday, March 4, 2009
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