Through the contributions of Ar(pit)h, Jay(ant)h, Ni(ved)ita, A(cha)l and S(war)nav …..
1) Map is an extremely useful function and shortly we’ll see why it is not used.
(Prof Madhavan, in the Haskell course)
2) Arpith: Is the plane a convex set?
Prof Parthasarthy: (flapping his hands) No… it has wings etc etc!
(In the CalculusI course)
This is certainly not the definitive collection of all that has been said by our professors, but then, as Loic Dubois pointed out, that’s life.
Not all of these are first hand.
1) If there is any justice in the world, then this should be the derivative!
2) I don’t know why I am doing this. (on the theorem he was proving)
(Vemuri, during his course on functions in several variables)
3) Ignorance is not a crime, ignorance of ignorance is.
(Ramanan, in the Global Calculus course, when the students failed to reply clearly whether or not they knew some particular theorem)
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