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When I was a mathematician it was pretty common to make jokes whenever we actually had to evaluate an integral, along the lines of 'think back to your elementar
by sdenton4 5y ago
When I was a mathematician it was pretty common to make jokes whenever we actually had to evaluate an integral, along the lines of 'think back to your elementary-school calculus...'
- lp251 5y ago“integrate by parts, like you learned in middle school” tf middle school did you go to?!
- light_hue_1 5y agoIt's a joke. Like, we joke that the more math you learn the less arithmetic you can do (ok, maybe that one isn't a joke).
- rindalir 5y agoIn my undergrad abstract algebra class our professor asked us a question about finding the order of a group that involved dividing 32/8 and we all just sat there for ten seconds before someone bravely ventured "...four?"
- jpindar 5y agoI've experienced that many times among groups of electrical engineers - we're all fine discussing equations but once its time to plug in the numbers no one wants to volunteer an answer.