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Lecturer Quotes

Over the years the lecturers here at Warwick have delivered one great lecture after another, sometimes they even find the time to say something funny. WMS presents to you some of the best quotes from our favourite lecturers.

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  • Brian Sanderson

    • "I think this is called a granny knot because granny doesn't know how to tie her shoelaces... Probably Alzheimer's or something." - 2006
    • \"$ 15+5-8+2 = 14 $... Now hang on, I've done this wrong... No, that's right." - 2006

  • Charudatta Hajarnavis

    • "Quiet please, your life depends on this [whilst talking about Complex Analysis]" - 1995
    • "[When discussing the axiom of choice] If I was a set theorist I would have to resign right now and walk out." - 2003

  • David Mond

    • "[While doing long division of polynomials on the board, student points out mistake.] This is impossible, you can do it." - 2005
    • "The rule x $ \rightarrow $ wife of x defines the one-one correspondence set of husbands $ \Leftrightarrow $ set of wives (in the absence of gay marriage and bigamy)." - 2005
    • "Not all of the mistakes that I make will be as easy to spot as that one." - 2006

  • Robert Kerr

    • "Jabber! Jabber! Jabber! ... I can't teach" - 2004

  • Vassili Gelfreich

    • "The only way to solve a problem is not to work out a proof, but to vote. Hands up who thinks it's true." - 2005
    • "I got that delta as a function of s, and that kills me." - 2005

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