"Push the Zoom button, then select ZBox... ze box!" - Mrs. Rubin
"I'm trying to think of something interesting to say, but this is as
interesting as it gets." - Mrs. Rubin
"I'm giving you the eye candy that most honors students want." - Mrs. Rubin
"Can you turn the sound off while taping, so you don't hear us talking about imaginary things?" - Mrs. Rubin
"That was a garden variety equation; now let's look at an equation that's not garden variety." - Mrs. Rubin
"Thankfully it's not expanded, because that's a mama polynomial right there." - Mrs. Rubin
"Mathematicians always like to be positive in life. When in doubt, be positive!" - Mrs. Rubin
"We either integrate or differentiate, and since I'm in the integration chapter, I'm going to integrate." - Mrs. Calahan
"If my math book had arms, they'd be tugging at me now." - Sam
"I'd die for anyone... just so I wouldn't have to do calc anymore." - Jocelyn
"I really like the whole protractor thing." - Aileen
"Speaking of funny, on our math project I said that everything was accurate if you stood 3 feet away from our graph, squinted, and 'smoked a little dope.'" - Robert
"A good rule of thumb is this: if you felt frustrated in your high school course when the text stated, 'The proof of this theorem is beyond the scope of this course,' then this is the course for you!" - description of a math course
"I'm going to use algebra, just to make you feel the pain of matrices and determinants." - Prof. Auroux
"All you people who are smiling are doing the wrong thing." - Mrs. Calahan
"In the middle of math today my professor said, 'Thank god you're here, Robyn!'" - Robyn
"You cannot find everything in the book.. but you can find everything on the exam." - Prof. Margetis
"The exam will be exactly like the practice exam.. but not the same problems." - Prof. Margetis
"Sorry my circle isn't perfectly circular." - Prof. Margetis
"I am proud of myself for doing all the problems, when we only had to turn in 5. I did all 200!" - Christa
"Theorem! It is not that way, but we will say it is to make it sound important." - math professor
"z does not appear in An! Whether z wants to relax... go for a walk.. it doesn't matter to An." - Prof. Margetis
"You can take the entire complex plane that stretches out to infinity and remove a single point at the origin. That's an annulus.. in a very twisted way." - Prof. Margetis
"Poles are isolated singularities so you can think of them as monks. They sit in a mountain and don't know what's happening around them." - Prof. Margetis
"I was flirting with Step 2... but now let's go to Step 3." - Prof. Margetis
"Branch points? Where do you see the branch points, in your sleep?!" - Prof. Margetis
"Let me finish my sentence now because Id Pandora's box and I have to close it." - Prof. Margetis
"You proved this! Don't look at it as if it were an alien!" - Prof. Margetis
"Okay, put a smile next to it so that you know that I know that... you know." - Prof. Margetis, regarding the quiz
"Essential singularities are sick. They're sick! They're pathological!" - Prof. Margetis
"It's a naive and powerful method that's used by computers... because computers are naive and powerful." - Prof. Margetis
"'If' is very elegant, but it doesn't have any life in it." - Prof. Margetis, on the topic of 'if' vs. 'suppose'
"Okay, I like suppose, so suppose I use suppose." - Prof. Margetis, on the topic of 'if' vs. 'suppose'
"'Anything can happen.' I like that. Mathematicians have a word for it: inconclusive." - Prof. Margetis
"I am also going to lecture after 3:00, so if you have to leave, leave. I'll lecture by myself. I like doing that sometimes." - Prof. Margetis
"If you disprove the theorem, mathematicians will come after you. You're dead." - Prof. Margetis
"Of course you don't have to read from the book... unless I don't make any sense at all." - Prof. Margetis
"No guessing. Guessing is for fortunetellers." - Prof. Margetis
"Now... what I'm about to say is very important. It could save lives." - Prof. Margetis
"You're following me, right? Or you're sleeping. Or both. I'm falling asleep here." - a substitute professor
"I can call it anything. I can call it n, I can call it k, I can call it Joe." - substitute professor
"We're using the Frobenius Method. The big guns!" - Prof. Margetis
"Just take this monster over there and differentiate term by term." - Prof. Margetis
"I'm following my instinct now! Don't interrupt my instinct!" - Prof. Margetis
"Ah, did I say that? Must have been drunk!" - Prof. Margetis being sarcastic with a student
"Is that clear?... No, it's not clear, because you're looking at me in that weird way." - Prof. Margetis
"The smallest root is the trickiest one, because it's small and sneaky." - Prof. Margetis
"Let's put blablabla here... and now let me ask you about blablabla." - Prof. Margetis
"What the hell are we doing now? How are we going to find the solution?" - Prof. Margetis
"As an afterthought, in the back of my mind, like those clouds that come out of your head in cartoons... you know what I'm talking about?" - Prof. Margetis
"A0 is never zero. Don't mess with A0. A0 is untouchable. Unless I set A0 to zero by brute force, but not in this case." - Prof. Margetis
"Happy? Hmm? Are you happy? Not in general, but in regards to this expression." - Prof. Margetis
"You look at the blackboard now, not at me." - Prof. Margetis, after he asked a question
"Today's lecture is boring. Maybe it's as boring to you as all the other lectures, but it's especially boring for me." - Prof. Margetis
"J-n is dependent on Jn! We're screwed!... So.. uhh.. I suppose that you can figure everything else out, right? *smile*" - Prof. Margetis
"The object of the Bessel functions is not to admire them; it is to use them." - Prof. Margetis
"In November we are going to do applications by breaking strings, crashing cars..! Very exciting applications." - Prof. Margetis
"Let's write the Bessel equation again... which I erased... stupidly.." - Prof. Margetis
"Circles around the origin?! Circles around the origin!! You have been watching too much Harry Potter or something!" - Prof. Margetis, when students guessed wrong
"Treat the Bessel functions like your friend! Like breakfast!" - Prof. Margetis
"Take n=0. It's like kindergarten, you know? Start simple!" - Prof. Margetis
"What spoils it? That damn 3 multiplying the y'!" - Prof. Margetis
"Music and math have a lot in common, except the Frobenius method." - Prof. Margetis
"Long division made me cry in fourth grade every day for a month or so." - Christa
"So how did we start the application of the vibrating string? There is a string... That's a good start." - Prof. Margetis
"The first statement. Number one. Number one means first. Okay?" - Prof. Margetis
"They're proper conditions.. Proper, you know, they're well-behaved, proper, high-society conditions." - Prof. Margetis
"So what is on Fourier's mind? Well, he's in his grave right now. That was a bad question because now he probably has nothing on his mind. What was on Fourier's mind?" - Prof. Margetis
"What should we call this constant? *students yell out different letter names* Are we going to vote for it? Let's call it E. It's not a democracy. I hope you've realized that." - Prof. Margetis
"So we found the solution. Now what do I do? I can go drink coffee. I'll go eat turkey!" - Prof. Margetis
"And since it's the end of lecture, and I haven't used my yellow chalk yet, I should use it here." - Prof. Margetis
"There are very weird functions that mathematicians can construct when they're drunk." - Prof. Margetis
"That was what I was going to say. Fourier proved it. So I don't have to prove it. That's my answer." - Prof. Margetis, when a student asked a question
"You can't program infinity in the computer. The computer doesn't understand infinity.. because it's stupid." - Prof. Margetis
"How did we derive the coefficients of a
n? We as in the royal 'we.'" - Prof. Margetis
"Now that I found how to seek y, what do I do? Do I go home and sleep? It's only 2:30!" - Prof. Margetis
"Sum! Sum! It's three words. Remember that." - Prof. Margetis
"Ew Melike, my math teacher is the reason I can't stand math in general. He's like white, middle class, BORING AS CAN BE, just draws crap on the board and talks, doesn't even turn around to see if we get it, does that for an hour and a half." - Christa
"Don't you all have wireless laptops? Some of you have those wireless laptops which have a calculator program to solve 5.5 divided by 0.23." - Prof. Virk
"Log paper is so rare nowadays. Even like if you google log paper it'll be like, 'Wha?'" - Prof. Virk
"How do you fuckin' dot this shit?!" - Max
"Hmm. I haven't done math in so long. I think I forgot how to add." - Andrea
"I hate math, I used to think it was sexy." - Aimee
"I put a line through my z's because of math class." - David
"I called this number I got in the math lab for a tutor, and the guy's wife or mom answered and scheduled my appointment. She had told me he was in a wheelchair, so I was like whatever, so I went yesterday, and he's not just in a wheelchair. He had a tube going in his throat, and he was on a respirator, and he was on an IV, and like he couldn't move at all. The room was practically a hospital, and I was just a little bit freaked out." - Christa
"Get drunk and go assault some guy with equations on his shirt." - Jeff
"I saw the most f*cked up grill I've ever seen. It looked like a vector field." - Tulasi
"It's like an abacus inside your head." - Andrew
