Jay Stewart ([info]bbwoof) wrote,
@ 2008-10-29 15:49:00
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This Is My Brain on Calculus
Sometimes I awaken in the morning thinking about work. Sometimes I awaken thinking about sex. Sometimes I awaken thinking about Magic: the Gathering. Lately, I've been waking up with calculus problems on my mind. (Yeah, for those of you not paying attention, I'm back in school, pursuing a Mathematics degree.)

Last night, I peeled a couple of bananas and tossed them into a blender. I added four ice cubes, 2 cups of Bailey's Irish Creme, and a dash of mace. All of this blended up into a rich, frothy concoction. The lovely and talented [info]beckyzoole tasted it and said, "This is pretty good. What do you call it?"

Without thinking, I said, "Put it in a cylindrical glass, and we'll call it Banana Cream Pie R Squared H."


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I didn't claim that it was funny. It's just the way my brain works, okay?



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[info]ithildae
2008-10-31 04:46 am UTC (link)
They will also listen if you are more than 100 miles from home, with a briefcase. Then you will be an expert.

Even at the BS level, there are several choices in electives. I chose Fourier decomposition and Differential Equations as the elective types. (About eight classes beyond the required basics.) I chose those because of interest and applicability to the Electrical Engineering courses I was interested in. The graduate level math courses I took as a EE sophomore finally convinced me that I would need to actually learn to study. I passed. ('C's get degrees.) Complex Analysis is far simpler than it looks like it should be, and you learn cool stuff, like the arcsine(2).

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