E=MC2=PC
CIV suggested that going into math will avoid the PC crowd.
Not so fast.
Not so fast.
posted by stewdog | 8:00 AM | Permalink
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Great article, Stewdog, but I think CIV beat us to that one, as CIV sent us that article a while ago.
Yes, that is true.
But I felt it was time for a revival.
I'd like to know how they make math "ethno" when it reaches the level of calculus. Unless it is now un-PC to calculate the derivative (with respect to time) of an object's acceleration.
Uh oh. Looks like none of the Rumpus took a calculus class. Either that, or the derivative joke is just too old to get even a groan, much less a guffaw.
I'm ashamed to admit that I took four years of math in high school (including calculus), that I was a good student, and that I still didn't get the joke.
I'm further ashamed to admit that I took "calculus" in college as well, but it was a class entitled "Calculus for Liberal Arts Majors." They might as well have entitled it "Math For Students Who Expect Never to Do Math Again."
Hey, no shame, KM. I haven't done any calculus since the 70s and I don't miss it a bit. Turns out that higher math is like poetry -- soars right over my head. I was crushed to discover I wasn't good enough to be a math major.
(I took "Math for Math majors." There wasn't a single application taught. Applied math was below us. Alas, I might have understood more with the occasional real-life problem.)
Oh, and the derivative answer is jerk.
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