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#13440

1010

Sept. 9, 2024, 2:48 p.m.

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// On the application of reason to geometry, talking about the Pythagoreans. Rose: "Let's say I found 20 people, and put them in a room with food and water for a month, and asked them to prove geometry." Rose: "I'm a cult leader, and they're all committed to me." Rose: "They may define something, they might rebel, I don't know." // Later... Rose: "What might be something that might be, like, hard to figure out?" // Mutters from the class. Rose: "True. Hard stuff is hard to figure out." // Later, proving that sqrt(2) is irrational by contradiction, reaching the crux of the proof. Rose: "Now, a strange sense of weirdness -- cue the "Woo-o woo-o" music -- descends upon you."

P6 Logic. Early in the semester, talking about the development of math.

logic, rose, reason

#13434

2525

Sept. 6, 2024, 12:43 p.m.

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Rose: so there are no circles, no lines, no triangles, what the hell have we been doing in math all these years? Meru: straight up BS, man

#13426

1515

Sept. 4, 2024, 12:11 p.m.

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Rose: "Tell your parents to come to Back to School Night." Rose: "There will be a propositional logic quiz!" Rose: "Winner gets a prize."

P6 Logic. Beginning of the year, Rose is running through an Innovation slide talking about Back to School night.

logic, rose, innovation

#13417

1921

Aug. 30, 2024, 12:12 p.m.

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// Rose is talking and an announcement about ID photos comes on Rose, quietly: shut uuuuuuup

#13409

2121

Aug. 29, 2024, 12:14 p.m.

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Rose: "Now, Schwartz is a perfect example of someone who has been perverted by education..." Schwartz: "I'm a weirdo!"

P6 Logic. Rose is talking about conditionals, explaining why "If the moon is made of cheese, then 5 is less than 3" is a weird statement. He asked Schwartz, who was visiting, who responded that it was true with little thought.

logic, weird, rose, schwartz

#13408

1212

Aug. 29, 2024, 12:10 p.m.

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Rose: they were missing some comma in this 17th century document and now we have machine guns or something

#12964

1313

Feb. 1, 2024, 4:13 p.m.

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Schwartz: I'm just playing around with symbols, as is all of maths. Schwartz: *looks out the window* Good. Rose isn't here to hear that.

#12898

44

Jan. 26, 2024, 7:47 a.m.

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//Rose describes the things he had planned for Logic for which he ran out of time Michael: Do you ever think that Logic should be double-period? Rose: No, Logic doesn't need to be double-period. I just need to cut out some junk. Rose: I've come to the point where I'm willing to admit that.

#12883

77

Jan. 23, 2024, 4:04 p.m.

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Rose: I ran a Zoom class, and half the class showed up, and everyone was sad. Rose: Well, no, you might have all been happy, but I was sad.

#12822

55

Jan. 4, 2024, 4:11 p.m.

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//chaotic rose anthology, january 4 "Katz, you need to stop making that joke. It should be your New Year's resolution. ... Why? Eh, maybe it's just a me thing." "You all haven't memorised the first book of Euclid like I have." "Katz, in september, on your first day of college, you should go to the professor after class and find something they did wrong to scream at them about. ... It's a good way to establish dominance." "Can I put Jonathan Fan in a phone bin?" "[Hilbert] did something different ... because he's Hilbert." "Don't zone out or get bored! Well, I can't stop you from getting bored."