Formulas
Feb 12, 2020 08:09:40 #
Feb 12, 2020 08:41:08 #
My dad had notebooks full of stuff like this. (He was an optical physicist for Kodak from the '50's to the '90's.) I never understood even one page, though a few of my brothers could follow maybe a line or two. I was just the family photographer, and I'm fine with that...
Feb 12, 2020 08:45:37 #
I hear you! I was somewhat of a math wizard until I got to this level. Talk about reaching the ceiling. Never could or wanted to break through though. Glad there are some that do.
Feb 12, 2020 08:59:15 #
I remember an almost identical cartoon years ago. One smock wearing guy looks at the other and says, “look at it this way, by the time it happens we’ll be gone and won’t care.”
Feb 12, 2020 10:47:50 #
Yes, math can provide lots of laughs - except when a test is sitting in front of you.
Feb 13, 2020 04:15:37 #
I recently watched a documentary on one of NASA'S missions to the outer Planets, and a chap was explaining through a mathematical equation on how the spacecraft would do that: It was completely wasted on me, and I suspect on 99% of the audience!
Feb 13, 2020 08:00:22 #
jerryc41 wrote:
Yes, math can provide lots of laughs - except when a test is sitting in front of you.
Definitely been there!
Feb 13, 2020 11:12:20 #
jerryc41 wrote:
Yes, math can provide lots of laughs - except when a test is sitting in front of you.
That's the sort of thing that made becoming a linguist seem to be a good idea.
That works out well until one is pressed into service as an impromptu interpreter for some visiting semi-dignitary whose speech is a combination of mangled phrases and meaningless gibberish.
Feb 13, 2020 14:06:41 #
I always did well in math and related subjects. That is until I met calculus and matrix mathmatics. My eldest and youngest sons however, think calculus and matrix math are understandable. I am happy they did not begin studying it until college level. I did not have to help them with their homework assignments. Of course my middle son did well in math also, but he chose to be a translator in the military, they taught him Chinese. His wife was trained in Russian.
Feb 13, 2020 14:38:36 #
clint f.
Loc: Priest Lake Idaho, Spokane Wa
Looked at the son-in-laws textbook for the PE (professional engineer) exam. I told him it was all Greek to me. He almost cracked a smile.
Feb 13, 2020 14:50:42 #
aggiedad
Loc: Corona, ca
Dear algebra, stop asking us to find your X. She isn’t coming back. And don’t ask Y.
Feb 13, 2020 18:54:39 #
Orson Burleigh wrote:
That's the sort of thing that made becoming a linguist seem to be a good idea.
That works out well until one is pressed into service as an impromptu interpreter for some visiting semi-dignitary whose speech is a combination of mangled phrases and meaningless gibberish.
That works out well until one is pressed into service as an impromptu interpreter for some visiting semi-dignitary whose speech is a combination of mangled phrases and meaningless gibberish.
Politician?
Feb 13, 2020 20:13:38 #
Jacksonville
Loc: Australia
I had a friend who majored in math at university (US). At the advanced levels he admitted that neither he or his professors always knew what they were doing. By that time it was all highly theoretical. Lost track of him after that.
Feb 13, 2020 23:46:59 #
nobody13579 wrote:
Politician?
Just over-promoted or jet-lagged functionaries.
Feb 14, 2020 01:46:33 #
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