“Wow, so that’s what “elementary” means? I don’t even want to think about what an advanced textbook looks like then!”
08 Mar 2019
This isn’t just a mathematics thing. I think I hear my professors speak like this even more in my physics classes. I guess we like to be really graphic in our descriptions.
04 Mar 2019
I can’t tell you the number of times a dead-simple proof eluded me for many hours, only to see the “obvious” answer later.
25 Feb 2019
“You have to look more closely for the results that match my theory!”
22 Feb 2019
If you ever find yourself thinking, “This is a really nice proof,” chances are the person spent a ton of time in the background refining it.
20 Feb 2019