It's a bit longer to say, though
Jul. 26th, 2005 06:15 pmInfinity-boy just may get renamed Supernova-boy. "Infinity-boy" was never really a good name, as asking if ∞ is in N is actually pretty common among first-years (not that that was what pointed him out to us). But today... oh boy.
I'm not going to bother with the stupid comment he made about (a+b)(a-b) (not stupid as in obvious, stupid as in utterly, utterly wrong) earlier in lecture. The thing was that today was the day gave his "epicycles" lecture. And he talked about how the ancients looked up at the sky and saw the stars and wanted to understand them, and most of the stars moved across the sky in step with each other, but some of the stars did strange things - and ∞-boy *raises his hand*. Glenn had even started off that whole section by saying he's going to "tell a story", and ∞-boy raises his hand right then, and Glenn calls on him, and he says, "One of the reasons for stars doing strange things is supernovae." ...Glenn continues with his story, going through different models of the solar system with their different number of epicycles, and when he mentions Copernicus ∞-boy raises his hand again. Thankfully, Glenn doesn't call on him this time.
Zeta today:
At one point, Rohrlich said (of the trivial Dirichlet character mod N) "This is an officially certified uninteresting example." Tom just looked at me.
Rohrlich, on removing factors of 1/(1-p^-s) from Euler products: This process is known as... [dramatic pause] ...removing an Euler factor.
...yeah, that's all.
-Sniffnoy
...I think I'll just continue to call him "Infinity-boy".
I'm not going to bother with the stupid comment he made about (a+b)(a-b) (not stupid as in obvious, stupid as in utterly, utterly wrong) earlier in lecture. The thing was that today was the day gave his "epicycles" lecture. And he talked about how the ancients looked up at the sky and saw the stars and wanted to understand them, and most of the stars moved across the sky in step with each other, but some of the stars did strange things - and ∞-boy *raises his hand*. Glenn had even started off that whole section by saying he's going to "tell a story", and ∞-boy raises his hand right then, and Glenn calls on him, and he says, "One of the reasons for stars doing strange things is supernovae." ...Glenn continues with his story, going through different models of the solar system with their different number of epicycles, and when he mentions Copernicus ∞-boy raises his hand again. Thankfully, Glenn doesn't call on him this time.
Zeta today:
At one point, Rohrlich said (of the trivial Dirichlet character mod N) "This is an officially certified uninteresting example." Tom just looked at me.
Rohrlich, on removing factors of 1/(1-p^-s) from Euler products: This process is known as... [dramatic pause] ...removing an Euler factor.
...yeah, that's all.
-Sniffnoy
...I think I'll just continue to call him "Infinity-boy".
