Back to Basics
May. 5th, 2009 10:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stoutfellowYesterday, in the geometry seminar, I was explaining some stuff I'd worked out over the weekend. Just as I was coming to the climax - the point where I could give them numbers instead of just theory - the fire alarm went off.
It is, after all, finals week.
Prof. W suggested that I take the chalk with me. ("To write on what?" "The sidewalk, of course!") When we got outside, I stooped to redraw the relevant equations and a couple of pictorial examples. At that point, Prof. W snapped my picture. (He has promised to send it to me, and not to post it on the Internet.)
We spent the next ten minutes or so - until the all-clear sounded - discussing things and working examples, as I continued to draw on the sidewalk. Fortunately, no Roman soldiers showed up to step on my drawings.
It is, after all, finals week.
Prof. W suggested that I take the chalk with me. ("To write on what?" "The sidewalk, of course!") When we got outside, I stooped to redraw the relevant equations and a couple of pictorial examples. At that point, Prof. W snapped my picture. (He has promised to send it to me, and not to post it on the Internet.)
We spent the next ten minutes or so - until the all-clear sounded - discussing things and working examples, as I continued to draw on the sidewalk. Fortunately, no Roman soldiers showed up to step on my drawings.
