[614] in Professors_Quote_Board
Re: Mattuck, 18.063
pshuang@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (pshuang@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed Oct 21 23:44:37 1992
"I'm proving these things by declaring them so, for the most part."
"Group tables aren't important, but they're fashionable."
"[This planar graph] is obviously a bipartite graph, for those of you
who have gotten that far on the problem set." The problem set referred
to was the one due at the beginning of that lecture.
{As Mattuck moved from one board to another} "OK, mathematical symbols
ahead warning!" At another lecture: "[Mathematical symbols] are an
exercise in turning something comprehensible by everyone to something
incomprehensible to anyone."
"Things that are generally considered to be the same are considered to
be the same.... We can show it the other way, too, or we can just wave
hands.... Because X twiddles itself, that's why."
{After extra amounts of handwaving and pretty drawings} "Now I submit...
that proof was rigorous."
