for those who like my teaching anecdotes

[aryanhwy]

Here's a good one

Comments

[kareina]

That is so cool! I hope she says yes to joining the lesson.

[aryanhwy]

I hope so too!

[hudebnik]

I see a paper: "On the aphrodisiac properties of diagonalization lemmas"...

[aryanhwy]

I could work in one of my husband's favorite jokes/pick-up lines:

"What's yellow and equivalent to the Axiom of Choice?"

.....

[I'll give you the option of answering before giving the punchline away.]

[madbaker]

Hey! I work in finance and... um... never mind.

[aryanhwy]

And you care nothing about the incompleteness of basic arithmetic? It doesn't keep you awake at night knowing that there are true statements that are provably unprovable?

[madbaker]

It keeps me awake at night knowing that there are bank statements that are provably unbalanced to SCA branch reports. Does that count?

[aryanhwy]

It's close. :)