Dan

I was browsing through my statistics books and suddenly thought of Prof. Dan Weiner again. He was the most "awkwardly-cute-and-geeky" math professor that I have ever met in my life. He reminded me of Sheldon (chubbier Sheldon???) in some way. During my one year of graduate school at BU, I really enjoyed his classes. 

I had my fair warnings from 5th year PhD students about Dan. Even so, I fell in love with him immediately since day 1. During the first class, I couldn't help but collect his quotes. I have shared these quotes on facebook back then. But I am going to share them again here because I believed they are too awesome to not have read.


1) "I don't support new casino law because it is against my religion, which, OF COURSE, is PROBABILITY."

2) "Today I had my first graduate Real Analysis class and I forgot which room it was in. So I checked the registration webpage and here's what the university calls me "REAL ANAL WEINER". (describing how particular he can be with proofs and derivations)

3) "When President Bush said "you are either with us or not with us", I was happy that Bush at least knows his complementation in set theory."

4) "If it is true that everybody is not good, then there is at least one bad guy. If there is no good guy in the group, all of them are bad. QED!" (proving de Morgan's laws)

5) "Let's define our sample space U=time until the students in this class die. Now we express this mathematically, U=(0,infinity]. Of course, I use "infinity]" in case the immortal God is taking this class and I don't want to insult Him." (Our classroom was inside the building of the School of Theology.)


I am sure you'd agree by now.