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Daniel123

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Quotes from Cambridge

I think some of these are rather funny:

http://homepages.tesco.net/~scotsnet/o. … fun014.htm

Daniel123

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Re: Quotes from Cambridge

My favourite is probably: "Any theorem in Analysis can be fitted onto an arbitrarily small
piece of paper if you are sufficiently obscure."

lightning

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Re: Quotes from Cambridge

LOL - tesco... HA!

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Daniel123

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Re: Quotes from Cambridge

I suggest clicking "more" at the top of the page.

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Lol - More... - Less... Roflol!

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Daniel123

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Re: Quotes from Cambridge

LOL - tesco... HA!

Lol - More... - Less... Roflol!

These aren't the jokes!

JaneFairfax

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Re: Quotes from Cambridge

This book fills a well needed gap in the literature.

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LOL - tesco... HA!

Lol - More... - Less... Roflol!

These aren't the jokes!

they're funny lol - i think they are anyways

I didn't get the other ones, but tesco and the more-less thing cracked me up LOL

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integer

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Re: Quotes from Cambridge

You don't want to prove theorems that are false.

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" Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
Greens' functions are boring
And so are Fourier transforms. "

I love this one. Very artictic mind hehehe

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Re: Quotes from Cambridge

You don't want to prove theorems that are false.

This shows that even mathematicians don’t always use technical terms properly. What they mean is: “You don’t want to prove conjectures/hypotheses that are false.”

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i dont get these jokes, what do they mean?

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Daniel123

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i dont get these jokes, what do they mean?

There are rather a lot. Choose one and we'll explain?

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This book fills a well needed gap in the literature.

this one.

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JaneFairfax

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Re: Quotes from Cambridge

Think about it. When is a gap of any kind “needed”?

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Think about it. When is a gap of any kind “needed”?

I took it to mean that the book should have never been written.

A professor after introducing tensor products said, "If you aren't confused by this, then I don't think you really understand it."

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lightning

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gap, in a book? paragraph? space? tab indent thing when you start a new paragraph?

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Re: Quotes from Cambridge

lightning! you just took the humor out of it!

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sorry, i don't get it. can you explain?

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