The Seminar Rule
“The first third is for everyone, the second third is for experts, and the final third is for the lecturer.” Haha! From the excellent BBC documentary The Story of Maths.
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October 3rd, 2010 at 3:23 pm
that’s an in-joke. i heard it when i was a math grad student. a variant was to split the time in fourths and have the fourth one be for no one, not even the lecturer.