Dennis Sciama told of a cosmology lecture he once went to. The speaker began: "Consider a Banach space B". Sciama burst our laughing.
The first page of Jean-Pierre Serre's "A Course in Arithmetic" isn't quite what people might expectpic.twitter.com/GvWDU0Z8kP
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A friend once observed that Caltech's economics program wasn't like others - "a lot about Banach spaces, surprisingly little about prices or trade".
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Perhaps you should've started with Weil's "Basic Number Theory."pic.twitter.com/XIlEytgTF6
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To be fair, it's not labelled "A _First_ Course in Arithmetic".
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here is a nice story, Michael Freedman recalls his professor, Donald Spencer, opened by saying, “Let S be the sheaf of germs of sections of a vector bundle.” Freedman thought to himself, ”Well, good, I know what a vector is.”https://www.simonsfoundation.org/2013/11/12/michael-freedman/ … - 3 more replies
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I was reading Hilbert’s Foundations of Geometry once and a friend said “sounds a little basic for you, James”
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TBH the heading "Graduate Texts in Mathematics" should be a bit of a giveaway...
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