Proposition: There exist people in the set of all people who don’t know much about math
Proof: The other day, one of the techniques students asked me what classes I was taking. I of course replied that I was taking Spanish and Number Theory. “What’s number theory?” they asked. A completely reasonable question, I thought, and so I said, “It’s basically the theory of integers…for instance we do a lot of stuff with primes.” And then the bright young chemist said something that I couldn’t quite comprehend. He asked, “What are prime numbers anyway?”
April 6th, 2008 at 10:24 pm
She is alive!