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#10532
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⚐ ReportAce: What is the meaning of life? Schwartz: To do this! *does a weird hop/jump/skip* Hadar: Why do we exist? Schwartz: To be able to ask this question!
#10529
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⚐ Report//Schwartz discusses an analogy of walking in the forest of math as a representation of mathematical experience and skill, such that Analysis 1B students are now crawling Student 1: If we're crawling in the forest of math and you're hobbling, who's flying? Schwartz: I don't know. Might be Terry Tao, but I'm not qualified to assert that. Student 2: Kwu!
#10525
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⚐ ReportSchwartz: If we need to know sin(0.3) to approximate cos(0.3), then we're just going in circles! Schwartz: No pun intended. Schwartz: Have I driven that home? Katz: Approximately.
#10524
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⚐ ReportSchwartz: For many years, the answer to the question of "what's the square root of -1" would be Schwartz: DIE, HERETIC!
#10523
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⚐ Report// Story time Schwartz: If I had 10 rocks and I gave you 10 rocks, and someone asked me how many rocks I had... Schwartz: I would say "that's a dumb question"!
#10497
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⚐ ReportAlex: So we could rewrite that fraction as csc^2(x), and then we could rewrite that with a Taylor series ... Schwartz: Rewrite it with a WHAT? I don't understand the words you're saying ... Schwartz: Tay-- Tay-- Taylor series? What's that?
#10496
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⚐ Report//Schwartz about to call on student, who appears to be asleep Schwartz: Also asleep ... *looks around on the floor* I need something to throw. *looks back at student* Oh, you're awake.
#10488
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⚐ ReportSchwartz: When you see 1-x^2, what do you think about? Hadar: Trigsub! Schwartz: No! Noooooooooooo!
#10487
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⚐ Report// Schwartz writes "Laurent" on the board Schwartz: I can't say this person's name, so I'll name them Frenchie.