〈 Berger | Dillon 〉

I often joke that once I hit grad school, the only numbers I cared about were zero, one, countably many, and uncountably many.

Ah, the number of times I have actually experiences this! Among things more than half of my math colleagues don't like: 1. Group theory 2. Tensor calculus 3. Special functions and their relationship to Diff. Eqs. 4. Statistics

But half the fun of all those special functions is that they're unique solutions to some nifty DEs! I don't think I've enjoyed a lowish level talk so much as when my analysis prof gave an entire lecture on complex tangent viewed this way.

So why did you become a physicist? Physicist: because i like the number “e”

*in Lyft today* Him: "So what do you do?" Me: "I'm a PhD student, getting on my doctorate in math." Him: "So what's the square root of 2?" .....1 star.

I like greek letters though.

I was talking with a friend yesterday and realized he didn’t know the greek letters I was using, so I proceeded to somehow list the entire greek alphabet and realized that 1. I know them, and 2. I’ve pretty much exhausted every one for use in my thesis, plus half the latin ones.