we've all had them-the lecturers that probubly should have been comedians. so now that semester 1 is officially over, here are some quotes...
"Apparently that's the major flaw in my lecturing style. I don't pay enough attention to my knees."
"Of course, since you're mathematicians, you should all write "log n" as opposed to "LN n". Don't let your boyfriend or girlfriend catch you writing "LN". I had a girlfriend once, a physicist who wrote "LN". We broke up. It wasn't because of that [Pause, class titters] Well, maybe it was."
"You can abbreviate mathematical terms up to 10 times. [pause] If you do it an 11th time, you will go directly to hell!" (whilst brandishing a knife and talking about oranges)
"My Mother warned me of two things; ladies of a certain virtue, and dividing by zero!"
"the trinagle inequality really rules the world!"
"In mathematical analysis we call x the undetermined part of line a: the rest we don't call y, as we do in common life, but a-x. Hence mathematical language has great advantages over the common language."
"I like making history, do you?"
"I think its better if one of us does the talking and the other the listening. And I should be the one talking.... because im better at it"
" I hate my mother-in-law.. shes awful"