Comments on: Happy Birthday Leonhard Euler http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2007/04/happy_birthday_.html Dispatches from a Small Business Sun, 12 Feb 2012 09:39:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Xmas http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2007/04/happy_birthday_.html/comment-page-1#comment-5298 Xmas Mon, 16 Apr 2007 23:25:07 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2007/04/happy_birthday_.html#comment-5298 <p>Funny Math story told to me by my Complex Algebra professor when I was talking about walking around with a math book with the word Algebra on the cover. </p> <p><br /> One of his professors had written a book for a graduate-level algebra course. This is math for grad student pursuing Masters and Doctorates in Mathematics. All the Math grad students in his class had to use this book.</p> <p>The professor had named the book, "Algebra I".</p> Funny Math story told to me by my Complex Algebra professor when I was talking about walking around with a math book with the word Algebra on the cover.

One of his professors had written a book for a graduate-level algebra course. This is math for grad student pursuing Masters and Doctorates in Mathematics. All the Math grad students in his class had to use this book.

The professor had named the book, “Algebra I”.

]]> By: Greg http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2007/04/happy_birthday_.html/comment-page-1#comment-5297 Greg Mon, 16 Apr 2007 04:45:54 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2007/04/happy_birthday_.html#comment-5297 <p>We're -e^(i·π)!</p> We’re -e^(i·π)!

]]> By: john http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2007/04/happy_birthday_.html/comment-page-1#comment-5296 john Mon, 16 Apr 2007 01:31:46 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2007/04/happy_birthday_.html#comment-5296 <p>The graduate mathematics department at The University of Texas used to have an intramural football team called "The Eulers." A great inside joke for math geeks.</p> The graduate mathematics department at The University of Texas used to have an intramural football team called “The Eulers.” A great inside joke for math geeks.

]]> By: Brad Warbiany http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2007/04/happy_birthday_.html/comment-page-1#comment-5295 Brad Warbiany Sun, 15 Apr 2007 16:46:25 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2007/04/happy_birthday_.html#comment-5295 <p>I remember when I was taking high school trig, I was walking through the hall and overheard two football players talking about their math class... You know what they said?</p> <p>"This isn't math, I thought math was numbers! This is letters and words..."</p> <p>Yeah, right, buddy... What you were doing before wasn't math. It was arithmetic.</p> <p>(BTW, good thing you caught yourself on the Liebniz thing, I was going to give you hell otherwise :-) )</p> I remember when I was taking high school trig, I was walking through the hall and overheard two football players talking about their math class… You know what they said?

“This isn’t math, I thought math was numbers! This is letters and words…”

Yeah, right, buddy… What you were doing before wasn’t math. It was arithmetic.

(BTW, good thing you caught yourself on the Liebniz thing, I was going to give you hell otherwise :-) )

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