#13440

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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."

#10130

810

March 2, 2022, 5:26 p.m.

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Rao, to some student: I'm gonna send you on an errand, to wake you up ... and also because I need someone to do this.

#3446

1515

June 6, 2011, 2 p.m.

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Pham: Is methane polar or nonpolar? Student: Polar. Pham: Why? Student: Uhh...because.... Pham: I tell you reason. Reason is you are wrong!