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A joke in American universities: The professor is interrupted in the middle of his lecture by a student who asks about one of the previous week's problems: —
by 082349872349872 2y ago
A joke in American universities:
The professor is interrupted in the middle of his lecture by a student who asks about one of the previous week's problems:
— Could you please work an example for us?
— No problem!
The professor writes a problem statement, then scratches his head, tugs on his collar, rubs his chin, and at last scribbles a complicated integral on the board.
— There you go!
— Excuse me, professor, but could you please be a little more explicit?
— What do you want from me? I just did the problem 3 different ways.
- lupire 2y agoSo the reason I have trouble in math is that I don't wear collared shirts, so I only get 2 ways to solve problems?
- 082349872349872 2y agoOnly getting 2 ways to solve it brings us back to russian jokes: A soviet maths prof finds out he'd make more money as a labourer in the shipyards, so after more than a few carefully-distributed bottles of vodka he manages to change profession. A month or two working in the yards, and he sees a notice on the bulletin board offering a bonus to workers who sign up for a special "maths for the proletariat" evening school course. Figuring it's easy money, he signs up, brings a novel, and sits in the back of the class reading instead paying attention. Then the prof calls him up to the brownboard, and asks him for the circumference of a circle. Suddenly, our ex-prof blanks. Frantically he scribbles and scribbles on the brownboard, only to wind up with ... -2πr. No, that can't be right, but what went wrong? Just when he's about to crack trying to figure out his error, he hears a friendly voice from one of the front-row students: — Psst, colleague, swap order of integration!