Math Professor Quotes
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Have I told you the golden rule yet? No? Whenever you think about using the existential quantifier, use the universal one. That’s the correct answer.”
— Calculus professor
2 years ago
82 notes
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calculus
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logic
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art-of-dreaming
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submission
“
Are you entitled to concocting universes? Yes of course!”
— Logic Professor
2 years ago
92 notes
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logic
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trains-tho
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submission
“
It sucks that we’re ending this semester with a lemma. Scratch that, we’re calling it a theorem. We deserve it.”
— Mathematical Logic professor
2 years ago
249 notes
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logic
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mathematical logic
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philosobeard
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submission
“
Category Theory throws the middle finger at all other branches of pure mathematics… Oops. Don’t tell your other professors I said that.”
— Category Theory professor
2 years ago
104 notes
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category theory
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logic
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mathematical logic
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physicsnirvana
“
Oh, P3 would be interesting here. But we’re not allowed to think about P3.”
— Dissertation supervisor on homogeneous structures
2 years ago
47 notes
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punchsomeoneforme-willyou
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model theory
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logic
“
There are only two types of Mathematics: Category Theory and Physics.”
— Category Theory professor
2 years ago
159 notes
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category theory
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physicsnirvana
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logic
“
If the moon is a pickle, then Dr. C is an alien.”
— Professor using herself to demonstrate the idea of implications being vacuously true.
3 years ago
55 notes
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logic
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strictlyscript
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Your proof isn’t technically correct, but math isn’t real anyway, so who really cares?”
— Logic professor
3 years ago
724 notes
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logic
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username-less
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Best wishes, here I should say for how long I wish, but because there are no good descriptors in our language, so I say to infinity.”
— Logic professor
3 years ago
97 notes
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logic
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Wait, I’m confusing myself. Let’s start over.”
— Logic Professor
4 years ago
303 notes
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logic
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markowskyem