But if they reprimand me for kicking somebody out that is annoying the rest, I would go up to the rector if necessary. I cannot believe that this is "correct practice".
If my job (which this is in NL) requires me that I allow people to treat me like an idiot, I quit.
I think it's funny that you even care or waste time to think about whether your students are late or not. The tutors here just stand at the board and do their monologue.
@PeterTamaroff Good evening My Liege. May I, unworthy as I am, ask You to take a slice of your most valuable time and spend it to take the honors here?
I didn't make myself very clear. Sorry. Peter was addressing me in this humble tone, so I tried to make fun of that. But he didn't seem to have gotten it either, I see.
@JonasTeuwen I was spending quite a bit of time on showing that something too awful to spell out right now depended on the set-theoretic background you're working in. So I had to come to grips with what's working and what's not working. Before going beyond ZFC, I wanted to understand what's happening between ZF and ZFC
The strangest place I heard Hahn–Banach being invoked was in my Stochastic Financial Models lecture. He said that something was probably provable using a "Hahn–Banach-y argument".
@JonasTeuwen Thanks again. It's actually my question here I care most about. No wonder it got the least number of votes. But my questions are upvoted like crazy anyway.
@Eugene Oh, OK. I did see some come and goes between Superman and Jordan. Clark seemed to be honestly offended by him, in the sense Jordan "insulted" math constantly.
@tb I still can't understand wether Porton has truly made any serious paper or mostly of what he wrote is something that is already known written in other symbology/nomenclature.
@Eugene I was watching NATGEO the other day. Some quantum physics for the layman and they mentioned Einstein died thinking the ghost effect (is it called like this in English?) was false.
yes. he sent a letter to his friend saying: (And this proposition is generally true for all progressions and for all prime numbers; the proof of which I would send to you, if I were not afraid to be too long.)
it's nice when your reputation is so great that you get theorems named after you by saying the proof of x is too long for y.
@JonasTeuwen In case you might not know, the reason I started using roman fonts in MathJax was due to terrible typesetting in the early releases. Now it is improved somewhat. But I've actually grown fond of the roman fonts.
@BillDubuque Yes, I know. It is no problem, it is just your "trademark" in some way or another :-). (So, that comment was in no means meant to be offensive...)
@BillDubuque would you happen to know what the benefit is to computing the rank of an elliptic curve over $\Bbb{Q}$ using $3$-descent is to using $2$-descent?
ah i see. sorry it looks like it might be violating rule 4.
@BillDubuque What is the name of the guy that wrote the essay on $$\frac{\partial}{\partial z}F(z,\alpha)=F(z,\alpha+1)$$? I seem to have lost the file somewhere in my PC.
