Caught Between Worlds

The younger students look up to you, while you wonder what the professors think of you.

What do professors think of about their position?

14 Sep 2018

Exercise to the Reader

Cutting the manuscript's length by leaving the work as a bunch of exercises.

The only category of textbooks in which you can leave the main results out with a straight face.

12 Sep 2018

This is probably a *bit* overboard.

All the details are necessary!

10 Sep 2018

Reverse engineering a result.

How the sausage is made.

07 Sep 2018

Optical versus mathematical illusion.

It gets even weirder if you consider bases other than ten.

05 Sep 2018

I take no responsibility for the accuracy of this comic.

“Why do we use these weird units?”

“Historical reasons.”

“Also, cosmic rays are electromagnetic radiation, right?”

“No, that’s a historical accident too. It’s convention now.”

03 Sep 2018

Biology meets mathematics.

“If you’re the weakest link, you’re left behind.”

31 Aug 2018

Not quite what you would call a "final" version.

“What about that meeting?”

“Oh, it’s part of the paper.”

29 Aug 2018

Triviality implies lack of novelty?

“Maybe they are just getting in their teaching groove.”

27 Aug 2018

In general means a different thing if you're a mathematician.

“In general” means something totally different for a mathematican.

24 Aug 2018