[1007] in Professors_Quote_Board
Guillemin (18.966)
shapere@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (shapere@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Sun Jul 7 21:49:45 1996
"At certain critical values of b, something terrible is going to
happen."
"On the pendulum we have a fulcrum, and at the other end a pum blob...."
"Electromagnetism ceased to be a mysterious, occult branch of physics
that wasn't connected to anything else."
"These are Maxwell's equations, and you can find them on any MIT
t-shirt."
"We do what mathematicians always do: we assume all physical constants
are equal to 1. Well, except maybe the square root of 2 pi, but I
usually assume the square root of 2 pi is equal to 1, too."
Also, at some point he wrote on the board an equation which in LaTeX
would look like:
TX \hookrightarrow NY
I interpreted this as "Texas is a submanifold of New York."
