The Promised Calculus Thread

[swollenlymphnodes]

One of the coolest things about Calculus class, was a certain teacher would bring a bunch of good Japanese food that his wife made for our finals. My teachers. sigh. They were all so eccentric and quotable. I would write quotes from them in my notes.
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[IronPoke]

One of my professors always said 'dot, dot, dot' when explaining very large sets. He was Taiwanese and used unnecessary 'r's in some of his words.

"Imergine this next set... 1, 2, 4, 16, 32, dot, dot, dot..."

My friends and I would be snickering behind our books.

[DropDeadEd]

I've never taken Calc III...

but seemingly didnt seem necessary for a computer programmer.

[MidNightBlue]

There's a calc 3? I only took one and two. Had to try to make friends with triple integrals, integration of vector fields, Green's Theorem ... What do they teach in 3? Quadruple integrals, integration of vector forests, and Yellow's Theorem?

guy: I want to be a derivative.
girl: ??
guy: So I can be tangent to your curves.

[Sorra]

I am frightened by large numbers XD

lol that was a good one Blue!!

[MidNightBlue]

There be no numbers in higher mathematics, it all becomes abstract ... all sorts of strange and interesting things, like Alice entering wonderland. It's out of this world I tell you and I haven't even touched the very beginning of it. It goes fathoms deep and deeper still until you've reached the brink of an abyss ... what is on the other side? I do not know, I am not there yet.

Who dare brave the depth of mathematics? Tis a strange soul indeed to have fallen in love with such a monster.

I stole it from a friend of mine who probably stole it from someone else ... who probably stole it from someone else.

[swollenlymphnodes]

I've taken Calc 4. Too bad I forgot it all.

[Sorra]

Gosh I hate abstract numbers and derivatives and intervals and all that lol

My roommate's doing this complicated accounting business grid thing.... it scares me @_@ It looks like math but I don't know.

[jjjynx]

I count only Money.

That is such a lie.

Die.

[GrinfilledCelt]

[MidNightBlue]

[Sorra]

Same with me blue, I can do science but math crosses my eyes over.
(glomps Jj)

[MidNightBlue]

TO A LONG-LOVED LOVE
Madeleine L'Engle

We, who have seen the new moon grow old together,
Who have seen winter rime the fields and stones
As though it would claim earth and water forever,
We who have known the touch of flesh and the shape of bones
Know the old moon stretching its shadows across a whitened field
More beautiful than spring with all its spate of blooms;
What passion knowledge of tried flesh still yields,
What joy and comfort these familiar rooms.

In the moonless, lampless dark now of this bed
My body knows each line and curve of yours;
My fingers know the shape of limb and head:
As pure as mathematics ecstasy endures.
Blinded by night and love we share our passion,
Certain of burning flesh, of living bone:
So feels the sculptor in the moment of creation
Moving his hands across the uncut stone.

I know why a star gives light
Shining quietly in the night;
Arithmetic helps me unravel
The hours and years this light must travel
To penetrate our atmosphere.
I can count the craters on the moon
With telescopes to make them clear.
With delicate instruments I can measure
The secrets of barometric pressure.

And therefore I find it inexpressibly queer
That with my own soul I am out of tune,
And that I have not stumbled on the art
Of forecasting the weather of the heart.

[GrinfilledCelt]

Romeo X Juliet = ? (arr!)
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Songs for the flash frozen.

[MidNightBlue]

Romeo x Juliet = unfortunate blood bath (arrgh! x2)