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  • @classic8054
    @classic8054 Před 4 lety +14491

    When the prof says "it is easy to see" then he looks at his notes

    • @TheMathSorcerer
      @TheMathSorcerer  Před 4 lety +837

      Hahahahahahaha love that so funny!!!!!

    • @kummer45
      @kummer45 Před 4 lety +274

      When any good math teacher uses that phrase "it is easy to see" prepare for hell because the real math IS in the details. Refinement.
      Rewriting the proofs of the studied theorems with all the details is revealing and beautiful. It shows that math is literally HARD WORK. Geniuses spends days perfecting the thoughts on their arguments. That's why they are so flexible writing proofs of premises they haven't seen before.
      There is a difference between doing exercises and doing MATH PROBLEMS. Training is super fundamental. Looking at books doesn't provide the magic. It happens when the practitioner holds pencil and paper in hand all the time.

    • @talesfigueiredo9534
      @talesfigueiredo9534 Před 4 lety +226

      My calculus professor was savage
      He never looked at his notes
      I don't even think he had notes, but still teaches for 2h straight.

    • @murilopereira9816
      @murilopereira9816 Před 4 lety +59

      It is easy to see his notes.

    • @nine_tang_two
      @nine_tang_two Před 3 lety +38

      cause it's actually easy to 'SEE' so that's why prof watched his notes

  • @Gordonias
    @Gordonias Před 4 lety +5069

    Bonus points for english being the lecturers second language, and the lecturer randomly making annecdotes in their first language.

    • @TheMathSorcerer
      @TheMathSorcerer  Před 4 lety +224

      Haha

    • @apocalypticalkitty1
      @apocalypticalkitty1 Před 4 lety +65

      This is right on the money

    • @sadface7457
      @sadface7457 Před 4 lety +79

      @@TheMathSorcerer You should attempt to formal introduce concepts for the whole class and end the lesson without time for supporting examples.

    • @MrGotickiller09
      @MrGotickiller09 Před 4 lety +159

      Holy shit this is so on point. The Russian professor who talks to the 3 Russian students in the class during his lecture

    • @jacobkoel5285
      @jacobkoel5285 Před 4 lety +4

      Question and suggestion particles just add extra clarity tbh.

  • @rodzila8314
    @rodzila8314 Před 3 lety +1550

    Prof: “Don't be ashamed of asking anything”
    Student ask question.
    Prof: “You should know that already!”

    • @TheMathSorcerer
      @TheMathSorcerer  Před 3 lety +61

      Lol

    • @dontknow709
      @dontknow709 Před 3 lety +13

      Yes it just hurts

    • @zuesr3277
      @zuesr3277 Před 3 lety +7

      Again depends on the person some are just like that and also its the institutional structure which doesnt permit them time and multiple factors

    • @bengtbengt3850
      @bengtbengt3850 Před 2 lety +7

      "Why didn't you pay attention!?"

    • @mathoresque2445
      @mathoresque2445 Před 2 lety +7

      My experience is that usually professors are nice when you ask them questions (it means you re following and paying attention).
      It happened once that a professor didn't like that I asked about clarification for a part a proof but I persisted till he stopped to answer. (he got a bit angry but still lol)

  • @ClemensAlive
    @ClemensAlive Před 3 lety +1711

    This whole video is trivial

    • @ZenoDovahkiin
      @ZenoDovahkiin Před 3 lety +24

      "Well, *_NOW_* I wanna hear you explain it."
      -Prof in oral exam

    • @cavejohnson982
      @cavejohnson982 Před 3 lety +6

      THATS the word. I love it. its tivial do we will skip it

    • @fabiano9395
      @fabiano9395 Před 3 lety +6

      Holy crap, I'm from Brazil and the math teachers here say the same thing in portuguese!

    • @ulle3781
      @ulle3781 Před 9 měsíci +2

      Same in Germany, everything ist trivial

    • @therealteam1073
      @therealteam1073 Před 8 měsíci +3

      I'm from Quebec and I learned the world " trivial " this semester cuz of my math teacher. He averages 10 trivials per classes

  • @Ryyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
    @Ryyyyyyyyyyyyyyy Před 4 lety +9657

    “Don’t worry about this proof, you’ll cover it next semester so we’ll skip over it for now”
    Next semester: “you should know this proof from last semester, so we’ll skip over it”

  • @ampmjuku
    @ampmjuku Před 4 lety +5034

    Just forgot the one where, the student asks a question and the professor explains using the exact same example without really clarifying anything lol

    • @TheMathSorcerer
      @TheMathSorcerer  Před 4 lety +211

      haha sooo funnny, what a good idea, love it:)

    • @sean9177
      @sean9177 Před 4 lety +3

      @Mariah&WhitneyLamb lol

    • @agardy6679
      @agardy6679 Před 4 lety +43

      @@medielijah if a professor doesnt give you another explanation he either dont care or also doesnt understand it

    • @Manuel-pd9kf
      @Manuel-pd9kf Před 4 lety +2

      @@medielijah ur cringe

    • @TheMathSorcerer
      @TheMathSorcerer  Před 4 lety +5

      Hahahahaha

  • @stephen6691
    @stephen6691 Před 3 lety +1493

    "If you really want to be prepared, just do every single problem in the book"
    I've tried this, it works 🤓

    • @TheMathSorcerer
      @TheMathSorcerer  Před 3 lety +62

      haha

    • @The666Ozz
      @The666Ozz Před 11 měsíci +10

      obviously

    • @Ten2378
      @Ten2378 Před 11 měsíci +18

      Thank u stephen

    • @EeveeTheQueen
      @EeveeTheQueen Před 11 měsíci +21

      Lowkey it's the only stress free way to learn calc, throw yourself into it

    • @flastable9842
      @flastable9842 Před 11 měsíci +20

      You can also get away with doing the odd no problems with worked solutions in the student solutions manual. That also will get you a good grade. But you might also have zero social life and have absolutely no free time.

  • @phitsf5475
    @phitsf5475 Před 3 lety +660

    Prof Astrid: "It's a conceptual move, not an algebraic one"
    Today I found out that jokes can literally make one's sides hurt

    • @alirezased2673
      @alirezased2673 Před 9 měsíci +1

      If only it were a legitimate move 😢

    • @Kimbie
      @Kimbie Před 3 měsíci

      "Hey didn't you promise to make tuna salad for dinner?"
      "It was my initial idea, but I decided to make greek giouvetsi. It was a conceptual move, not a culinary one."

  • @Bekathepirate
    @Bekathepirate Před 3 lety +3806

    “The proof is left as an exercise for the reader” is such chaos energy

    • @TheMathSorcerer
      @TheMathSorcerer  Před 3 lety +98

      Lol

    • @inigo8740
      @inigo8740 Před 3 lety +57

      My entire Calc syllabus was filled with this wherever they could cram it in.

    • @FrogEnjoyer17
      @FrogEnjoyer17 Před 11 měsíci +4

      Most of my profs do this

    • @Fleato
      @Fleato Před 11 měsíci +8

      my teacher does this..... every..... time.... he'll talk about it in vaguerys then to a real light example and assign homework problems that look nothing like what we have done...

    • @Skall-ex
      @Skall-ex Před 11 měsíci +1

      ​@@Fleatolol exactly. Man it pisses me off 😄

  • @mayankmathur3257
    @mayankmathur3257 Před 4 lety +8015

    Felt like a real class. Didn't pay attention.

  • @ThefamousMrcroissant
    @ThefamousMrcroissant Před 3 lety +274

    I can feel my blood beginning to boil more with each "so it's easy to see"/"you can clearly see"/"you should check yourself". The amount of pain these few sentences have caused me over the years is unimaginable.

    • @pasta3166
      @pasta3166 Před 3 lety +3

      Same

    • @klb-og7cp
      @klb-og7cp Před 9 měsíci +3

      I literally started to question whether I want to go to uni because of this video bringing up trauma I did not know I had

    • @tomekk.1889
      @tomekk.1889 Před 8 měsíci +2

      ​@@klb-og7cpHahah don't worry it's not that bad. If you study dilligently then you'll never have any problems in uni

  • @johndoh1000
    @johndoh1000 Před 10 měsíci +75

    “Exams are 70% final is 30% and the HW is just good to do.”
    Had me rolling!

  • @ButiLao44
    @ButiLao44 Před 4 lety +3553

    Not to forget
    Student: "I believe you made a mistake there"
    Teacher: "I just wanted to see if you're paying attention"
    Yeah when I get something wrong in my tests I just want to see if you're correcting it thoroughly too

    • @TheMathSorcerer
      @TheMathSorcerer  Před 4 lety +153

      Lol

    • @dewman7477
      @dewman7477 Před 4 lety +5

      Lol

    • @BlijVrouw
      @BlijVrouw Před 4 lety +57

      lol :) To be fair, I haven't had a maths teacher in upper levels take marks off for an error with arithmetic. Also haven't gone without a teacher making at least one multiplication error in class per day. The numbers just don't matter as much as finding a solution. Maths people are nice people.

    • @ButiLao44
      @ButiLao44 Před 4 lety +18

      @@BlijVrouw Here you do get some points taken when you make a mistake because in the end the solution is wrong, but it's usually just one point and if the rest of the equation is correct that's it. That's why I just used to keep going even if I had numbers like the squareroot of 4246 times three divided by 7 and knew it was wrong :D

    • @VesperLoveReal
      @VesperLoveReal Před 4 lety +18

      @@BlijVrouw yeah my upper division professors were super chill about being corrected and actually happy if people spot a mistake they make. I find it funny how it felt like my upper division math classes were easier and more lenient than my lower division classes.

  • @ZyTelevan
    @ZyTelevan Před 4 lety +5222

    prof: dy/dx is not a fraction and you shouldn't think of it as a fraction, it's just a notation
    prof later: just multiply both sides of the equation by dx, which leaves us with just dy..

    • @TheMathSorcerer
      @TheMathSorcerer  Před 4 lety +576

      Hahahahahaha yeah

    • @fuomag9
      @fuomag9 Před 4 lety +265

      that's literally how you solve cauchy and I hate them for that

    • @timothyaugustine7093
      @timothyaugustine7093 Před 3 lety +135

      It's the "d/dx" that is the notation and is also a "fraction" lol since you can't just split "d" from "x" and you have to multiply them to the other side together as "dx". Very much used a lot in differential equations.

    • @35571113
      @35571113 Před 3 lety +133

      That was extremely irritating.

    • @neurofiedyamato8763
      @neurofiedyamato8763 Před 3 lety +42

      This comment gave me PTSD flashbacks

  • @ddognine
    @ddognine Před 10 měsíci +58

    True story: My senior year in college I took a Physical Chemistry class which was actually taught by a physics professor. Anyway, at some point, he spent nearly an entire lecture deriving the spherical Laplacian from the Cartesian one. It was like watching Michelangelo sculpt. He made quantum mechanics so easy, and i will never forget him. Wish more profs were like him.

  • @aidangarvey7049
    @aidangarvey7049 Před 3 lety +215

    Man I remember my first attempt taking Discrete Math, and a lot of it really was like this video, except I was so unsure of my abilities that I actually DID nearly every question in the textbook and still failed. Just goes to show that it's all about grasping concepts in math, not memorization. Practice is great but you have to know __why__ you're doing what you're doing, and the best teachers are the ones that do that.

    • @sinless
      @sinless Před 10 měsíci +7

      Did you ever pass discrete math? I'm stressing about this class hard as a CS major

    • @KaisarReinhard
      @KaisarReinhard Před 10 měsíci

      @@sinless I took it last year and passed by using ChatGPT as a study tool to clarify concepts. As long as you don't become too dependent on it, it works really well for the class.

    • @ZycL0n33
      @ZycL0n33 Před 10 měsíci +22

      @@sinless he did not. He now lives under an interstate overpass. He has no purpose in life and has realized life has no meaning. When he dies, he will be alone and nobody will miss him.
      Oh wait, that's me.

  • @Laszlo_Panaflex
    @Laszlo_Panaflex Před 4 lety +1254

    Abusive Calculus should be a class that everyone takes.

    • @TheMathSorcerer
      @TheMathSorcerer  Před 4 lety +39

      Haha yes

    • @guitarttimman
      @guitarttimman Před 4 lety +14

      Multivariate can be a monster if you don't have a good foundation in analytic geometry.

    • @tylersagendorf1141
      @tylersagendorf1141 Před 4 lety +22

      @Laszlo Panaflez Did you mean “the regular multivariable calculus course that I took in college?”

    • @TheMathSorcerer
      @TheMathSorcerer  Před 4 lety

      Lol

    • @EveryTimeV2
      @EveryTimeV2 Před 3 lety

      Yeah it is an okay substitute for real predictive power and control.

  • @technoultimategaming2999
    @technoultimategaming2999 Před 4 lety +913

    *Comes in first day of University*
    Math teacher: We are already behind by 5 chapters, we need to come in Saturday and Sunday for a full day...

  • @TheBorkLaser
    @TheBorkLaser Před 3 lety +118

    The whole "you can figure it all out on your own time" hit harder than it should.
    I had some teachers that relied H E A V I L Y on that function :D

  • @robertwilsoniii2048
    @robertwilsoniii2048 Před 2 lety +35

    I love how you never actually do anything but talk, make mistakes and be unavailable for students 😂. Which is very accurate.

  • @blackmesa232323
    @blackmesa232323 Před 4 lety +2748

    Me: Hey professor, when are your office hours? Professor: Sure, absolutely! 2:13 A.M to 3:01 A.M every other Wendsday when the moon is between waning and waxing gibbon, and Mercury is in retrograde.

    • @TheMathSorcerer
      @TheMathSorcerer  Před 4 lety +102

      hahahahahah

    • @sean9177
      @sean9177 Před 4 lety +17

      All my professors were just as easy to get a conference with. Nailed it. I'm only off work Tuesdays and Thursdays, no one seems to be in office then and I live in a different city then school (25min away)

    • @TobiBaronski
      @TobiBaronski Před 4 lety +11

      That’s every prof tbh

    • @annakareninacamara6580
      @annakareninacamara6580 Před 4 lety +14

      You're lucky to have such an available teacher! Mine usually work only in leap years...

    • @Zero_Hour
      @Zero_Hour Před 3 lety +19

      "Tell ya what, just shoot me an email and I'll get back to you as soon as possible aka in 3 weeks when you remind me about the email for the 9th time"

  • @lseul8812
    @lseul8812 Před 3 lety +2903

    “Everyone Understand?
    No one:
    “Ok! Great Moving on!”

    • @TheMathSorcerer
      @TheMathSorcerer  Před 3 lety +51

      Haha

    • @soupalex
      @soupalex Před 3 lety +71

      with my lecturers, they flip it:
      lecturer: "anybody have any problems with this?"
      everybody: [don't want to speak up, people will think i'm dumb]
      me: [is okay with exactly zero of what the lecturer just said but don't want to have them just say the exact same thing all over again]

    • @alisonlaett9625
      @alisonlaett9625 Před 3 lety +54

      @@soupalex I know what people don't realize is that you have to have a certain level of comprehension to even be able to formulate a question to ask in the first place.

    • @thundergod6503
      @thundergod6503 Před 3 lety +16

      @@alisonlaett9625 yeah, having a genuine problem takes time, coz you actually have to go over that shiz in your head first

    • @hj2479
      @hj2479 Před 3 lety +8

      If you don't speak up then we can't elaborate, we don't have mind-reading powers. A funny joke though really happens all the time when you teach. I think the best thing to do is ask, move on, and then repeat with smaller concepts until you are moving to an unrelated concept or activity so that you can open for a forum of questions on the general topic and all the smaller concepts that may have had some time to solidify in your students' minds and allowed them to formulate good questions.

  • @George-ky2nv
    @George-ky2nv Před 3 lety +151

    When Jeff Bezos decides he wants to be a math professor:

    • @simplym796
      @simplym796 Před 3 lety +6

      I just entered this video to see if I was the only one who thought that 😂

    • @simplym796
      @simplym796 Před 3 lety +2

      Well, the video is good.

  • @sahar1213
    @sahar1213 Před měsícem +1

    "If you really want to be ready, just do every problem in the book" that hit home

  • @Nite_coder
    @Nite_coder Před 3 lety +872

    Didn't realize my calc 3 professor put his lectures on youtube.

  • @SirKi-ef5vw
    @SirKi-ef5vw Před 3 lety +1510

    Prof: so this next theorem is the most important part of this entire course, make sure you really understand it.
    Also Prof: *erases the theorem 2 seconds after writing it down*

    • @sferrin2
      @sferrin2 Před 3 lety +79

      I have literally seen an instructor with an eraser in his left hand erasing what he'd just written with his right hand. I guess he was afraid the dry erase ink might dry. SMH.

    • @nickmagrick7702
      @nickmagrick7702 Před 3 lety +56

      YEAH WHAT THE FUCK IS WITH THAT!!! I play video games regularly but I don't have the dexterity and reaction time to write all those fucking notes and weird symbols down before they start moving onto the next damn thing!

    • @itskittyme
      @itskittyme Před 10 měsíci +1

      i hate it when they ererase !!
      i was always a slow writer 😞

  • @karakniss524
    @karakniss524 Před 3 lety +18

    the "if you really want to be ready, do all of the problems in the textbook" really got me lmao

  • @goldenlamb777
    @goldenlamb777 Před 2 lety +27

    Calculus 2 was my favourite subject ! Calculating donuts 🍩 volume was amazing and the fact that I was in total understanding and in sync with the professor was so energizing for me .

  • @VANTABL4CK
    @VANTABL4CK Před 4 lety +1557

    "This is calculus 7"
    "Today we'll be doing some mathematics"

  • @whatsgoingon07
    @whatsgoingon07 Před 4 lety +2148

    Prof: “and the bottom score was 2% and we all know who that was”
    Student who scored 2%: 😎

  • @colorx6030
    @colorx6030 Před 3 lety +38

    The way he holds the marker sure is fascinating.

    • @Tubeytime
      @Tubeytime Před 11 měsíci +3

      Yep, this guy teaches math...

  • @annieadri1
    @annieadri1 Před 11 měsíci +5

    He really captures the feeling of a professor saying something so confidently, but you just can't wrap your head around it.

  • @FPrimeHD1618
    @FPrimeHD1618 Před 4 lety +2590

    "It's a conceptual move, not an algebraic one" omfg lol

    • @TheMathSorcerer
      @TheMathSorcerer  Před 4 lety +87

      LOL it is:)

    • @carcasapistacho
      @carcasapistacho Před 4 lety +98

      That had me in tears. I'm sick of the sorcery they all do in calculus, it's so messed up

    • @TheDannytaz
      @TheDannytaz Před 4 lety +5

      Aka being lazy

    • @TheDannytaz
      @TheDannytaz Před 4 lety +13

      @@carcasapistacho it gives me anxiety on when I should do the same

    • @ematarkus4121
      @ematarkus4121 Před 4 lety +10

      when derivating on this 2d function, it does not matter at which height the resulting line is "started"... omg i think i understand the professor without studied math...

  • @ri-oj1ul
    @ri-oj1ul Před 4 lety +1348

    I loved Calc 3.... my professor was a useless nightmare though...
    Student: Professor... how do you do question 23 on the homework assignment? Nobody in the class was able to get it right...
    Professor: Oh...23... well that is a variation of problem 74 on page 492
    Student: Yes, but what is the answer?
    Professor: You likely have to use the theorem in chapter 19 section 6
    Student: ... we tried that but that does not work...
    Professor: The theorem in section 6 states: blah blah blah blah blah blah blah, does that answer your question?
    Student: Not really, can you go over the solution?
    Professor: Don't worry about it... it is beyond the scope of this class
    45 minutes later...
    Professor: The exam will include all of the material from the last homework set...
    Student: except #23?
    Professor: Class, pay special attention to number 23, it will be on the exam and worth 25 points.

    • @TheMathSorcerer
      @TheMathSorcerer  Před 4 lety +104

      LOL nuts!

    • @gabrielayala4900
      @gabrielayala4900 Před 4 lety +42

      Did you manage to solve question 23 though?

    • @guitarttimman
      @guitarttimman Před 4 lety +42

      Multivariate is usually the most difficult one. The trick is in learn how to understand level curves and projections for the purpose of determining where your bounded axis variable is and then make the function simple in terms of that variable.

    • @ri-oj1ul
      @ri-oj1ul Před 4 lety +30

      @@gabrielayala4900 yes, I never worked so hard for an A in my life.

    • @deybinmendoza5524
      @deybinmendoza5524 Před 4 lety +1

      @@ri-oj1ul 😂😂

  • @StephenChapman
    @StephenChapman Před 9 měsíci +3

    You immediately won me over with the comedic pause into "dork", lol. Excellent video; I had quite a few healthy chortles.

  • @hazh9936
    @hazh9936 Před 3 lety +11

    This not about math specifically, but I love how in my Chemistry class the professor teaches concepts and then proceeds to make an exam/homework about math problems he didn’t teach us at all expecting us to magically solve them.

  • @joeyGalileoHotto
    @joeyGalileoHotto Před 4 lety +740

    Prof: "I have 25+ years experience in this field of Mathematics and my research is in...."
    Also Prof: *doesn't know how to teach*

  • @meliodas4560
    @meliodas4560 Před 4 lety +449

    You forgot the "mandatory textbook that I wrote, 22nd edition". It's $300 and all the profit goes to me. Oh you have the 21st edition used from last year? Nope, you need to buy the 22nd edition because all the homework questions are different. Otherwise you can't do the homework and you fail. If you photocopy someone else's textbook I'll find out and you'll face academic suspension.

    • @meliodas4560
      @meliodas4560 Před 3 lety +14

      @Literature-Look I got around a lot of textbook expenses by doing group study homework sessions with classmates. Everyone bought one of the required textbooks for each of the five courses each semester, and then the five of us would do homework questions together. This also made it invaluable since if we got stuck on a hard question, we could immediately work through it together. We got called out for cheating numerous times, but the profs couldn't do anything about it since we all worked independently on most of the questions, and only had basically the "exact same answer" for the few hard questions that came up. This also only worked because my engineering program had a very strict course tree, we all took the same courses at the same time.

    • @jichanglin654
      @jichanglin654 Před 2 lety +4

      @@meliodas4560 my school’s math department actually don’t want to scam math students at all lol. The textbooks we need are always available online with free PDF download. Meanwhile all the textbooks required by economics needs to be purchased…

    • @justadude8716
      @justadude8716 Před rokem

      All my math textbooks were free pdf (written by prof even), but the physics…

  • @vengeanceseville2768
    @vengeanceseville2768 Před 6 měsíci +2

    "And if you really want to be ready, just do every problem in the book." - Professor Dork,
    died laughing

  • @elleb751
    @elleb751 Před 3 lety +41

    In Linear Algebra: And we all remember this principle (that you haven't used since) from Calc 1, right?
    *furiously looks for notes taken by your little-lost-freshman self... in a bookbag... in a closet... in a trashcan.... at your moms house.

  • @hitopsful
    @hitopsful Před 4 lety +943

    The most annoying thing is how he holds that marker

  • @hayden3774
    @hayden3774 Před 4 lety +297

    "Okay wait, how did you do that?"
    "Practice."

    • @TheMathSorcerer
      @TheMathSorcerer  Před 4 lety +5

      Haha

    • @abababa3542
      @abababa3542 Před 3 lety +4

      I’ve had a teacher say this
      ...”I wouldn’t have expected you guys to solve this because you would only know how to do this from experience”

    • @cricticalthinking4098
      @cricticalthinking4098 Před 3 lety +16

      @@abababa3542 Yep. "Once you do about a 1000 of these, you'll start to get them correct 4/5 of the time." He pauses. "I've done at least 10,000 of these."
      Poor guy.

    • @gavins9846
      @gavins9846 Před 3 lety +2

      EVERY TIME.

    • @waifu_enjoyer_zubo
      @waifu_enjoyer_zubo Před 3 lety +1

      The prof. who says practice is the key, then evaluates their students with only one midterm exam, and a final exam that are worth 50 points each.
      And of course he gets to be called as a professor.

  • @carultch
    @carultch Před rokem +4

    1:05:
    I can suggest a real world significance of the quadruple integral.
    Thermal energy. Given a region of space containing a material with a known temperature distribution that is not uniform. It also has a specific heat capacity that significantly varies with temperature. Integrating across this region of space, and from a reference temperature to the temperature at each point within the body, will tell you the total thermal energy of the body.

  • @tristanchristensen5963
    @tristanchristensen5963 Před 3 lety +18

    I never thought I'd miss graded homework until I took Calc 2

    • @fishfeeder8098
      @fishfeeder8098 Před 3 lety +2

      I just did my BC exam this morning and I wish that I'd had more incentive to do the homework as I was learning it. Probably would've done better.

  • @hughjazz4936
    @hughjazz4936 Před 4 lety +524

    Maths prof "So last time we discussed how 1+1 may or may not be 2, today we're gonna proove that the standart Brownian motion is alpha-Hölder continuous for every real and positiv alpha less than 1/2."
    Students "?!"
    Prof "Don't worry, it's trivial."

    • @TheMathSorcerer
      @TheMathSorcerer  Před 4 lety +16

      Lol

    • @divisix024
      @divisix024 Před 4 lety +50

      Also "Here we assume 1+1=2, erm no, I'll phrase it differently, we assume 1+1 is not 0."

    • @Merlin1908
      @Merlin1908 Před 3 lety +3

      @@divisix024 An actually legitimate assumption at times, though usually phrased 'We're working in a field with characteristic not equal to 2.'

  • @DerangedAussieMan
    @DerangedAussieMan Před 4 lety +248

    > "I'm using abusive notation here, don't write this on the exam."
    > Continues to teach nothing but abusive notation the entire semester, to prepare us for the exam

  • @jackieclaps5575
    @jackieclaps5575 Před 2 lety +1

    “We end up with the space time continuum and the end of the world”
    I understand now.

  • @johnmariano1775
    @johnmariano1775 Před 7 měsíci

    Okay you can tell this man is a professor or atleast a teacher. The way he writes on that board so effortlessly

  • @kawrno5396
    @kawrno5396 Před 4 lety +171

    "The problem needs 10 important steps. I shall explain 1 step to you, the rest is like the example on your book."
    On book: 'The 10 steps are from 10 different theorems you studied two courses ago, so it is self explanatory.'

  • @xostler
    @xostler Před 4 lety +406

    1:35 “annnd we all know who that was.” *briefly looks at camera*
    Me: *sobs intensely from flashbacks*

  • @alexandraelenanegru1003
    @alexandraelenanegru1003 Před rokem +3

    I will forever be grateful for the kind and gracious soul my calculus II professor has, she goes pretty fast but she would go over everything concept again if you were to ask and also integrated a revision of previous classes concepts so we're all on the same page; bless that woman :)

  • @joshuastucky
    @joshuastucky Před 10 měsíci +3

    As a mathematics professor myself, I really enjoyed this. Very good caricature!

  • @killking72
    @killking72 Před 4 lety +89

    This actually stressed me out so bad I almost had an anxiety attack

  • @Boxsteam
    @Boxsteam Před 4 lety +370

    Lecture Examples: 1+1=2
    Homework: find the interval domain of this function without a calculator
    Exam: I want you to find the circumference of the sun via only using the Pythagoras theorem and use that answer divided by 22nd and 23rd digit of pi to then be used as the speed of a fighter jet traveling from Florida to Tennessee and use that total time to calculate approximately how many rounds of golf can be played in that time

    • @TheMathSorcerer
      @TheMathSorcerer  Před 4 lety +13

      Lol!!!

    • @nikseptember317
      @nikseptember317 Před 4 lety +1

      YES!

    • @Henrix1998
      @Henrix1998 Před 4 lety +28

      4 379 000 000 m / 26 = 168 423 076,92308 m (note: this is not speed). The distance between Florida and Tennessee is 994 000 m or 16 943 971,521437 times less than the previous result. Treating the first result as m/s, the time would be 5,9018040649e−8 s. So, my final answer is 0. Now thinking about the question it is obviously 0 but of course you get no points just for the answer.

    • @kelvinchan2286
      @kelvinchan2286 Před 4 lety +1

      who'd use a calculator for “without a calculator“ problem?

    • @Bollibompa
      @Bollibompa Před 4 lety

      @@Henrix1998
      Why would you answer a joke question seriously? Are you a tool?

  • @filiformis
    @filiformis Před 11 měsíci +2

    3:16 Thank goodness he clarified that we would be doing mathematics. I had previously believed that anything beyond calculus 6 you leave math and enter analytic philosophy.

  • @adecentdelinquent8986
    @adecentdelinquent8986 Před 3 lety +22

    This is gonna sound absurd but the way he explains things as a joke in this video makes sense than any math teacher who has ever taught me.

  • @columbus8myhw
    @columbus8myhw Před 4 lety +104

    My office hours are between 1:15 and 1:16 every other Friday the 13th

    • @TheMathSorcerer
      @TheMathSorcerer  Před 4 lety +2

      Hahahahha

    • @lemon3rd800
      @lemon3rd800 Před 4 lety +8

      And half the time they'll be like: "Ah, geez, I've got an important appointment today, I'm sorry (not!!!). But you can see me when Saturn and Neptune align and the spirit of the holy Mary is visible on top of Mount Rushmore."

  • @vedgsesh
    @vedgsesh Před 4 lety +145

    "The proof is left as an exercise to the student" is one of my favorites. Also got "The Navier-Stokes equations are represented here as a matrix for your convenience" a couple semesters back.

  • @rjfontenotiii
    @rjfontenotiii Před 11 měsíci +3

    "Go over all of the homework. Do every single problem." This is actually good advice. It should be much faster for you to redo the assignments the second time around.

  • @expolarity7541
    @expolarity7541 Před 3 lety +23

    "and we all know who that was..."
    I feel attacked

  • @1337strvids
    @1337strvids Před 4 lety +156

    "Fill in the gaps" Annoying how true that is

    • @TheMathSorcerer
      @TheMathSorcerer  Před 4 lety +5

      yeah I know!!

    • @ArchietDev
      @ArchietDev Před 4 lety +3

      Is every maths teacher lazy? that they don't proceed on calculations not even a single time

    • @truebomba
      @truebomba Před 4 lety +6

      @@ArchietDev It is quite time-consuming to prepare the full proofs and the lecture in general. Even when you master the ideas, making all the steps in a straightforward manner needs time and some memorization before the class. Writing the proof in the class with the student will take a lot of time and may cause confusion to a lot of students, the program of the semester is long and doesn't allow such a thing. So as teaching is not highly motivated in university by the system altogether in contrast to research, it leads eventually to this lazy attitude.

  • @alextheskater
    @alextheskater Před 3 lety +73

    "The bottom score was 2% and we all know who that was."
    *entire class looks at me*

  • @SaidThoughts
    @SaidThoughts Před 9 měsíci +2

    This is how class felt for me

  • @jimkeen7674
    @jimkeen7674 Před 3 lety +3

    That backhanded marker technique is clutch. I'll be practicing this.

  • @nexovec
    @nexovec Před 4 lety +127

    "what does that mean?"
    prof: *repeats the last sentence
    AAAAaaaahhhh!!!!!

  • @Peter_1986
    @Peter_1986 Před 4 lety +417

    I remember some physics book that constantly used the word "obviously" in all its explanations - I swear I saw that word AT LEAST 10 times in one single course. I felt insulted by that, because I felt as if the book was assuming that absolutely everything was crystal clear right away, which of course it isn't.

    • @TheMathSorcerer
      @TheMathSorcerer  Před 4 lety +58

      yeah books love to do that lol

    • @Balfour.
      @Balfour. Před 4 lety +32

      Vectorial Calculus by Marsden-Tromba.
      All freaking example exercises are simplified because the procedure "'is trivial". Dammit.

    • @paulzapodeanu9407
      @paulzapodeanu9407 Před 3 lety +49

      It took the brightest people that ever lived millenia to figure this out, so it should be obvious!

    • @NegativeAccelerate
      @NegativeAccelerate Před 3 lety +2

      You probably read my physics book

    • @WayoftheFerret
      @WayoftheFerret Před 3 lety +3

      This semester (the one that ended for me today, hooray) I had a professor who said, "This is not very hard." almost every...single...lecture...

  • @Kristielina
    @Kristielina Před 12 dny

    I have no idea what's on the whiteboard but this is relatable. Usually, teachers and professors don't go in-depth with the material.

  • @pdezs2593
    @pdezs2593 Před 3 lety +1

    Every time there is a logic leap in a maths book:
    "It's more than obvious"
    And my favorite one being
    "LETS NOTICE THAT..."

  • @Taterzz
    @Taterzz Před 4 lety +322

    "The proof is trivial and left as an exercise to the student (see problem 42)."
    you cannot fathom just how much i hate when a text book says that. i'm supposed to be learning and you leave out the crucial proof to show me how to get from A to B. good to see this scourge isn't just in physics courses.

    • @neurofiedyamato8763
      @neurofiedyamato8763 Před 3 lety +27

      Higher education is rife with such issues and then there's people wondering why students complain about our education system.

    • @absolutezero6190
      @absolutezero6190 Před 3 lety +6

      I have a calculus book that does that. It’s not too bad though because usually it’s in an “if and only if proof” where they prove one direction and leave you to prove the other direction

    • @elijahaustin7454
      @elijahaustin7454 Před 3 lety +5

      I mean, I only taught myself two calc textbooks, but in my limited experience, the proofs they don't bother to show you are really hard to wrap your head around, and wind up distracting me from whatever I was actually trying to learn. If just stating proofs was a good way to learn things, we would all just link each other to math papers to casually sift through and acquire all human knowledge...

    • @gayxor
      @gayxor Před 3 lety

      good to see? what's wrong with you man, why would you be glad that *other people* also are hurt everyday by this unfortunate curse?

    • @Taterzz
      @Taterzz Před 3 lety +2

      @@gayxor because it helps knowing others suffer as i had to, that i'm not alone.

  • @TheMattg345
    @TheMattg345 Před 3 lety +376

    more like
    exams: 59%
    final: 39%
    assignments: 2%*
    *2 or more incomplete assignments will result in a course failure

    • @TheMathSorcerer
      @TheMathSorcerer  Před 3 lety +9

      Lol!!

    • @charimuvilla8693
      @charimuvilla8693 Před 3 lety +17

      Where I live it's just 100% finals :(

    • @TheMathSorcerer
      @TheMathSorcerer  Před 3 lety +5

      Lol insane

    • @TheMathSorcerer
      @TheMathSorcerer  Před 3 lety +2

      Where do you live?

    • @charimuvilla8693
      @charimuvilla8693 Před 3 lety +14

      @@TheMathSorcerer Greece. You do get free university after some challenging exams but it's pretty bad. You go to 200-people lectures, sometimes sitting on the stairs, most of the teachers won't even give you homework and after all that you go to the finals. It's a pretty strong degree but you end up wasting +2 years on average just because you need to learn stuff on your own and answer your own questions.

  • @germansniper5277
    @germansniper5277 Před 10 měsíci +2

    Another classic is "But this is very obvious"

  • @lorihompoth
    @lorihompoth Před 3 lety +1

    "It's a conceptional move, not an algebraic one."

  • @joaqogc
    @joaqogc Před 4 lety +38

    My Galois theory professor be like: the homework is a moral activity, 100% is the exams.

  • @Zaya2499
    @Zaya2499 Před 3 lety +25

    Numberphile is really the antidote to this style of math class that we all have been subjected to where half of it was finding values without discussion the concepts themselves and why they are awesome. Math classes should be a story we can play with. great job reminding me of school lol.

  • @anushka826
    @anushka826 Před 3 lety

    the last matrix tho ...this video made my day ...keep up the good work cheers

  • @alexamesh5270
    @alexamesh5270 Před 3 lety +12

    My friend: "So, what did I miss?"
    Me: trying to explain what "it's conceptual" means

  • @joshparks5575
    @joshparks5575 Před 4 lety +76

    I remember asking my calculus 2 Professor if we had a review for the final. She replied the entire semester has been your review.

  • @rock374
    @rock374 Před 3 lety +40

    The smoothness of the doodling makes me think that he knows what he is writing

  • @amandamoushabek3955
    @amandamoushabek3955 Před 3 lety

    Omg when you said this is left as an exercise for the reader. So relatable. This is my new favorite channel. I was laughing the whole video

  • @rdhrtj3943
    @rdhrtj3943 Před 9 měsíci +2

    We had one math exam in high school and our math teacher told us, when she was asked what topics where important for the exam, that everything between the pages 29 and 229 will be relevant for our exam.

  • @pisspoorvision
    @pisspoorvision Před 4 lety +38

    I used to watch this kind of videos and not understand what was on the board.
    Now that I actually know what's going on, I just have the biggest smile on my face while watching this :)

  • @zachchairez4568
    @zachchairez4568 Před 4 lety +34

    The space time continuum skit had me on the floor.

  • @Chr1stColomb
    @Chr1stColomb Před 10 měsíci +4

    Didn't know that Jeff Bezos was a Math teacher before losing his hair.

  • @nuggrcrunch
    @nuggrcrunch Před 6 měsíci

    Man this gave me a serious laugh when I really wasn't expecting it

  • @sandrareynoso6789
    @sandrareynoso6789 Před 4 lety +22

    "If you really want to be prepared... do every single problem in the book...." 😳😳🙄🙄🤯🤯🤯

  • @aeroboi2862
    @aeroboi2862 Před 4 lety +68

    **integrates**
    **Ends the world**

  • @BradleyG01
    @BradleyG01 Před 11 měsíci +3

    "If you have any questions, I will be in my office 2 weeks from Monday"
    That line killed me

  • @Lnblackberry48
    @Lnblackberry48 Před 3 lety +5

    Calc 3 tricked me this semester . The beginning portion was so easy and then al of a sudden the material had us wanting to have integration by parts in our heads as if it were second nature lmao . Fun class though

  • @epalegmail
    @epalegmail Před 4 lety +149

    0:25 let's change the order of integration
    *doesn't change the order of integration*

    • @TheMathSorcerer
      @TheMathSorcerer  Před 4 lety +7

      Hahahahahhaahah

    • @guitarttimman
      @guitarttimman Před 4 lety +6

      For four semesters straight, I was the dominating demon in my calculus classes. The other students: "Tim. Lighten up man. You're making that curve ridiculously difficult for us." LOL. They wanted to kill me.

  • @MarkMcDaniel
    @MarkMcDaniel Před 4 lety +234

    You need to collaborate with Andrew Dotson on one of these, he's the best at them.

  • @shinnyii
    @shinnyii Před 6 měsíci

    Lmao “it’s a conceptual move, not a algebraic one” got me

  • @ykkrasaoz9748
    @ykkrasaoz9748 Před 4 lety +17

    "it's a conceptual move, not an algebraic one"
    Smooth

  • @privateprivate6459
    @privateprivate6459 Před 3 lety +57

    Lol it’s so funny because it’s relatable. I liked how you portrayed the unrealistic expectations of professors even if it was a bit exaggerated. The quad integral joke also made my inner nerd laugh.

  • @laurlore11
    @laurlore11 Před 7 měsíci +2

    Prof: "Anyone have questions?"
    Students: still frantically trying to copy everything on the board
    Prof: "Good, no questions? Moving on", erases the whole board

  • @abhisheksathe123
    @abhisheksathe123 Před 3 lety +1

    Just like a real math prof., Reading the question and directly giving the answer without thinking

  • @dayneg337
    @dayneg337 Před 4 lety +92

    It’s so accurate, you’d think these are over exaggerations, but they’re not

  • @tens0r884
    @tens0r884 Před 4 lety +14

    A 10% penalty for a homework worth 0% is the type of grading scheme I wish I had :(

  • @ddognine
    @ddognine Před 10 měsíci +3

    When it came to calculus, I actually did every odd problem in the book because it had the answers. And honestly, doing a lot of math problems is a good idea because practice makes you better like learning to play an instrument. Plus, the problems in a a calculus text don't tend to be all that hard really and are somewhat repetitive anyway. And once you see the big picture, your brain will start to crave the harder problems. Of course, a nice side effect is you will ace the tests.

  • @Moloch6666
    @Moloch6666 Před 3 lety +6

    im taking a break and looking at something entertaining, but my parents don't know just by looking at my screen when they pass by

  • @claireelizabeth2057
    @claireelizabeth2057 Před 4 lety +25

    Me: Can you please clarify this for me? Prof: It's in your notes.