[ExI] Maths Teachers Career Prospects

[spike at rainier66.com]

From: spike at rainier66.com <spike at rainier66.com> 
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https://www.youtube.com/c/3blue1brown

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlYgs6v2YfU

 

BillK, may I offer a clarification of this comment:

 

>…Sanderson spoke at Berkeley recently.  The tickets sold out in imaginary time, but students figured out a way to get in there anyway …spike

 

 

Sanderson accepted the invitation to speak, so they booked the biggest auditorium they could find on campus and offered free tickets, but the tickets were offered first to the math department.  Naturally the mathematicians glommed all the tickets like a bunch of Cookie Monsters at the Keebler hollow tree factory (ommm nom nom) and there were none left for the non-math-majors.  

 

Scalpers from the math department made some money, but the clever engineers noticed they were admitting people holding the paper sheets with QR scanners.  They made a copy of their ticket, gave one to a fellow geek, synchronized their watches, two proles could enter simultaneously thru different doors with the same QR code because it took the QR scanners a few seconds to record and lock out that code.

 

After Sanderson began speaking, the bouncers abandoned their posts and went inside for they too wanted to hear the lecture, being math geeks themselves.  Subsequently more geeks piled in the unguarded doors.  Result: the fire chief was most unhappy.  But she didn’t bother to make them leave, for there was zero risk of a fire: not enough oxygen in that auditorium.  From what I heard, had every geek simultaneously inhaled, a burning cigarette would have gone out.

 

Many here have lived long.  But did ANY of us foresee the day when a talented MATHEMATICIAN would be more popular than a rock star?

 

spike

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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