Re: [math-fun] student faces expulsion for joking that square-rootsymbol looks like a gun

When teaching raising/lowering (ladder) operators in quantum mechanics I sometimes quote Shakespeare: “Is this $a^\dag$ which I see before me?” -Veit

On Feb 23, 2018, at 7:09 PM, James Davis <lorentztrans@gmail.com> wrote:

I'll avoid teaching the hermitian conjugation this semester.