Gut Mornin......(long live LARS)

[Dirac]

[s]scumdeeforever wrote on 17:12, 11th Nov 2004:
i see Reinaud all the time buying huge bottles of White Lightning and really bad comedy DVDs. Also saw Campbell tripping over a pavement near kinburn


I too have seen Reinaud buying white lightning, the 3 litre bottles infact.
Although he's quite a big man,thus i think he could do a couple of those before he was wasted.

It would be both amusing and bizarre, if one friday a few of the maths lecturers turned up to the bop wasted.

Infact that would be hilarious..i can just hear the chat.. "Errr i'm in one of your lectures..i sit quite near the front.." Haha.

[Guest]

[s]Scellanis wrote on 22:56, 11th Nov 2004:
Then, err, why are you in a thread about Maths lecturers?


Is there some rule against it? Or are non maths people not tolerated by maths geeks?

It's reading week and people are bored, though most not so bored to continue reading this thread I'l admit.

[Scellanis]

Nope, but if it were me I'd search google for something I am interested in rather than reading this. I mean, this is most definately not the only forum on the internet nor is it the only website...lol

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[scumdeeforever]

[s]Unregisted User wrote on 23:24, 11th Nov 2004:
Is there some rule against it? Or are non maths people not tolerated by maths geeks?


stop being obtuse and argumentative just for the sake of it. if you think the board is gonna be boring, don't read it, if you do read it, then fine. but to just start mouthing off for the hell of it...

and why are all maths people geeks? are we gonna have another stereotyping argument on the Sinner, cos that would be different(!)

[Guest]

[s]scumdeeforever wrote on 18:41, 13th Nov 2004:
stop being obtuse and argumentative just for the sake of it. if you think the board is gonna be boring, don't read it, if you do read it, then fine. but to just start mouthing off for the hell of it...

and why are all maths people geeks? are we gonna have another stereotyping argument on the Sinner, cos that would be different(!)


Sigh. 1, I did not think it was going to be boring but boy did it turn out that way. 2, I was not mouthing off for the hell of it but because someone professed their hate for a generalised group of people which they apologised for as they didn't quite mean it.

I then made a JOKE (shock horror, the sticky out tongue onviously wasn't a dead give away) which someone chose to make a big deal out of and try and start some sort of argument for goodness knows what reason.

And the "maths geeks" was in reference to what other people had been arguing about and what I had been JOKING about - I'll shout those bits as no one seems to understand that means kidding.

So really if we are talking about people being obtuse let's look at the people that couldn't spot a joke someone was making to a completely different user eh?

[md25]

This thread took a turn for the better when I stopped posting in it!

[Scellanis]

Lol, I did not make a big deal out of anything, you saw my comment, read it wrong and assumed I demanded you leave the thread didn't you which is not what I said. I merely asked why you read something you don't like...it was not intended to start an argument, it was just used that way.

Anyways, back to maths...
And now its time for me to start panicking because I haven't finished my talk yet...I have no plan... *pulls hair out*

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[Scellanis]

Guess who I got as the chairman of my talk...yes...Olsen!!

*screams and bangs head on desk*

I think I'm just going to curl up and die somewhere because hes far too scary and way too good at maths to give a maths talk to.

Btw, does he ever leave room 1A because all his lectures are in there and my maths talk is in there....must be his favourite room or something.

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[Guest]

"i was watching in the TV once, a popular science program about Chaos Theory. One physicist commented that mathematicians are wrong to split pure maths into linear algebra and non-linear algebra. This would be like biologists splitting the animal kingdom into Elephants and non-Elephants. However, I think he was wrong. Vector spaces seem to come up everywhere in mathematics" - what about elephants?

long live lars, king of the pointless anecdote

[Dirac]

[s]Unregisted User wrote on 10:23, 18th Nov 2004:
"i was watching in the TV once, a popular science program about Chaos Theory. One physicist commented that mathematicians are wrong to split pure maths into linear algebra and non-linear algebra. This would be like biologists splitting the animal kingdom into Elephants and non-Elephants. However, I think he was wrong. Vector spaces seem to come up everywhere in mathematics" - what about elephants?

long live lars, king of the pointless anecdote


I dont think it was pointless really.
He was just backing up the fact that vector spaces are indeed in most areas of mathematics.

[Scellanis]

lol, you know...giving my talk to Olsen wasn't as bad as expected. The only question he asked me was about my nice Easter dragon slide...my glamorous asistant for the talk, but I feel sorry for the other two students who got a real grilling about areas of maths in their talks. We ran over by at least 5 minutes because of Olsen's questions (which was bad for the next 3 people due to do their talks in that room who were waiting outside).

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[Dirac]

Just to update, the problems class today was quite amusing.

Olsen, defender of MATH, told us today how his wife asked him what he teaches about. He told her what he was currently teaching,being continuity.
After he had told her a bit about it, apparently she said that continuity was "romantic", and when Olsenator asked why, she was to say "Because for every epsilon there is some delta". How cute.

There's a lesson in everything he says.
He is truly is a prince among MATH.

How cute.

xxx

[Keith]

[s]Dirac wrote on 22:41, 18th Nov 2004:
...."Because for every epsilon there is some delta". How cute....



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anything to avoid revision!

[Superiorjames]

[s]Keith wrote on 00:14, 19th Nov 2004:
[s]Dirac wrote on 22:41, 18th Nov 2004:[i]
...."Because for every epsilon there is some delta". How cute....



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anything to avoid revision!
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Haha, thats totally funny!!! Well played keith!

[the-enemy]

well, lets get your votes in people...

[underworlddreams]

During Fractal Geometry last year, I was (as always) entertained by the constant stream of wonderfully hilarious quotes that Lars came out with. Since we have a perfect venue to post them here, I have transferred them over from my livejournal for your critical appreciation...

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You are laughing. I deliberately tried to make 'Applied Students' sound in a non-negative way...

A mathematician will never write 'limit' if he is not certain the limit exists... this is the difference between a mathematician and a solar physicist.

Let me spend the next five minutes explaining why this is obvious.

{Some number} is HUGE! A technical term for bigger than zero.

(About a famous mathematician) ...Let us see what he had to say... (Puts up an overhead sheet of german.)

(Has recounted how, as a young post-doc, he made a slightly critical comment about a theorem to it's originator) ...And Mandelbrot said to me - and this is a direct quotation - "You are the most stupid, ignorant and foolish person I have ever met!" And he spent the next half an hour explaining why this was the case.

We have shown something very counter-intuitive, haven't we? Hint: yes, we have!

Last lecture we defined the Hausdorff measure, and today life is a bed of roses.

Unfortunately, we are not going to prove it. It would have been good for your souls to see it... (This is the phrase he's most well known for in my year, I believe - he said it many times when he taught us for MT1002)

(Describing a proof not in the course for a theorem that is) The arguement goes something along the lines of "mumble, mumble, compactness, mumble, mumble..."

(Usually said about a theorem with no direct applications) It is a result that can be used every day, and twice on Sundays...

So, can we fix it? Yes, we can!

...So it does not matter that only a small epsilon amount of you have taken Analysis... (For the uninitiated, epsilon notation is found predominantly in the pure maths area of analysis... and the course was made up of stupidly difficult analysis...)

Hutchinson's formula is obviously called Hutchinson's formula since it was first derived by Moran.

Good morning. And now for something completely different... (It's worth note that it wasn't all that different!)

[hr]I am not your saviour, I am just as fucked as you.

[Scellanis]

lol, I loved most of those quotes from fractal geometry....

I think my favourites were

(Describing a proof not in the course for a theorem that is) The arguement goes something along the lines of "mumble, mumble, compactness, mumble, mumble..."

(Usually said about a theorem with no direct applications) It is a result that can be used every day, and twice on Sundays...

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[5handicapgolfer]

absolutly brilliant, can relate too all of these in class.
we need to take note of all these as mathematical research!

[Superiorjames]

Today, Lars was faced with a mysterious ringing noise that completely interupted his lecture. After a little contemplation, olsen concluded that this must indeed be the noise of a pacemaker. It was probably brought into the lecture by the enemy to cause olsen even more trouble than normal. At least it didnt disrupt olsen from continuing the lecture too greatly, unlike when the enemy unexpectedly comes through the door and presents olsen with a tiny, tiny, small epsilon. Olsen really does deserve the love and respect of us all, i mean he is cute.

Also, I have not seen much of Mathshawk inside the mathematical institute recently. I am beginning to worry for his safety and wonder if anyone can confirm he is alive and well, and still solving complex mathematical problems in the department. This would certainly put my mind at rest. How has everone been since our last correspondance?

Loads of love and kisses and epsilons and deltas

[scumdeeforever]

[s]Superiorjames wrote on 16:29, 24th Nov 2004:
Today, Lars was faced with a mysterious ringing noise that completely interupted his lecture. After a little contemplation, olsen concluded that this must indeed be the noise of a pacemaker. It was probably brought into the lecture by the enemy to cause olsen even more trouble than normal. At least it didnt disrupt olsen from continuing the lecture too greatly, unlike when the enemy unexpectedly comes through the door and presents olsen with a tiny, tiny, small epsilon. Olsen really does deserve the love and respect of us all, i mean he is cute.

Also, I have not seen much of Mathshawk inside the mathematical institute recently. I am beginning to worry for his safety and wonder if anyone can confirm he is alive and well, and still solving complex mathematical problems in the department. This would certainly put my mind at rest. How has everone been since our last correspondance?

Loads of love and kisses and epsilons and deltas




didn't you just love the handout presented to the class before the lecture - for no apparent reason! you've gotta love the guy!