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>Watching grad student present his thesis topic.
>Using FEM to model something.
>Decides he should explain FEM to the room.
>Draws xy axes and a curve.
>Draws rectangles under the curve.
>Says we approach the real solution as the width of each rectangle approaches 0 or as the number of rectangles approaches infinity.
Was he memeing? Because that seemed a lot like a Riemann sum.
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>>8454794
lol, sounds like Riemann sums/Integration indeed;
guess he wanted to sound superior than all us Calculus dolts...
Or maybe he's incompetent.
*shrug*
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Was it his whole thesis or just something he used in passing ? I mean Riemann sums *are* used to compute integrals, I dunno why kids here are so shocked to hear that grad students use elementary tools (especially in non-math fields).
Research is not about revolutionizing science every day, it's about using knowledge that exists to answer your own dumb questions.
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>>8454844
You should not have to present something as basic as integration to a thesis defense committee and the rest of the audience at the graduate level. Maybe in a freshman course but not graduate. If someone doesn't know how integration works tell them to ask a freshman calc student to explain it to them
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>>8454794
well I mean, it sounds exactly like Riemann sums, however, he's not exactly a full on memelord yet. He's TECHNICALLY right, but he's just showing an out-dated way to find the area under the curve.
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>>8454794
sounds like a professional memer
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