Why not to argue with your professor when he's right.

A: [Some absurd argument]
B: I deal in theorems and proofs, not matters of faith.
A: What?
B: In short, we differ.

The Mitillos-Ventullo Lemma

Discovered after Pelsmajer told them to fight to the death after class, the Lemma has a wide variety of uses, despite the inelegance of brute force proofs:

Lemma: I am right.

Proof: Challenge me. QED

Time complexity isn't nerdy.

A: "Yeah. It's not divisible by any primes through 29"
B: "You're a nerd."
C: "You're one to talk."
B: "I'm not as big of nerd as he is; I'm on the order of log(n)."

JLR

"Uhhh....you've uncovered what I was hoping to sweep under the rug."

"Oh. Well that's fine, you can sweep it."

...

"It's in JLR random graphs, page 68.......roughly."

U = [a1 a2 .... an]

"You are a whole bunch of points."
"No. I am a strange loop."

As seen on TV!

Bezier's Hermite Poisson: gets rid of your Spline problems.

-Anne

up, down?

"Which way's down??? This way, right?!?"

-Pelsmajer

"Ramsey Theory...

basically says that there can never be complete disorder...
Sometimes."

-Pelsmajer

ParabUla

It's the way he remembers what shape it is....