Part IB, Linear Mathematics
Quotations:
"Everything in the garden is nice." (repeated several times per lecture)
"This is general algebraic nonsense."
"...all things in U which get annihilated."
"A vector such as (x, 5 , Grandma)."
"This is a nice set."
"This is my W."
"It looks like something very slippery has happened here."
"You think of (tau) as an X."
"Make a mistake first of all."
"I normally end a proof with a double line, just as a cricket scorer finishes an innings"
"And if I do it n times, I'm down the plughole" (on differentiating xn-1)
"We need a trivial fact - I'll call it a lemma"
"If you've got a sledgehammer and you've got a problem, then hit it, and look for refinements later"
"And the proof is the press-down t chaser" (Anybody know what this means?)
"But we did that wrinkle, in a sense, when we did Jordan normal form"