Bonarisms

Chapter 1

The First Shovelfull off the Top of the Mountain
(Year One)

Muddies the water

Ups the ante

If you've got your separable glasses on

Tricks in your hip pocket

If a guy walks up to you and says…

It's not the salvation of the world

If you were trapped on Tahiti and only had the sand to write in, it's integration by parts

There's some virtue in putting it down in black and white

Obviously the guy who put SEC(x) on the right hand side was in a foul mood

If you have the patience of Job

It's just six of one and a half dozen of the other

Let's drag it in by the hind legs

Moreover...

We're just taking a teaspoon of water out of the bathtub

Let's use three dots to cover a multitude of sins

Let's bloody our noses

I'm gonna go with cosine and say my prayers

Otherwise I could whip it out in a hurry

It's like trading dimes for nickels, sooner or later you're gonna run out of money

Well it's.....what?

This one looks pretty tame

Fly in the ointment

It's just walking up the hill to walk back down

Did I tell the truth?

I know what I'm doing but did the chalk misbehave?

If the chalk didn't lie…

That looks out of bounds

Gospel

Frankly

It's just hitting a thumbtack with a sledgehammer

Burying a mouse with a bulldozer

If the Wronskian is just zero it’s like getting an empty valentine card

You bet your boots

Don't bet your girlfriend on this one…

Well, you could have bet your girlfriend I guess

I talked to the publisher and some salesman gave me some bad dope

When you're in the quiet and comfort of your own room

“Whipsnitch” (the inverse of a zillion)

We've got the cart before the horse here

Do the same stunt over here

Suppose I walk up to you off the street and ask you

A guy parachutes into the room and wants to know what's going on, what do you tell him?

Repetition is the mother of all learning

13 is our favorite lucky number

Incidentally

We ought to satisfy ourselves

I'm going to erase this for all eternity

There's something I jump on my kids about with pointed heels

Nobody does this but...

We must have put some money in the collection plate yesterday

Life is being kind to us

It's not of that flavor

Has he taken leave of his senses?

Hit it with the product rule

I know this is exciting, like a wet T-shirt contest in Antarctica

Suppose a guy has handed you the following function

If some bird came by and dropped the following function on you

This looks frightening

Is that right?

If I didn't make a boo boo

I'm going to go over to the scrap paper and say a little more

I'll tell the payroll to take off $2.00

"All" is a bit encompassing

I'll bet a dollar on a doughnut, well I better not bet too heavily, I'll bet doughnut on a doughnut

He bet his boots

Any five-year-old who's done this for ten years knows...

Has this guy gone bananas over the weekend?

If I walk up to you and say Arctan of this, you had better give me one number

I'm getting these looks like: "Is he shoving me off a high bridge here?"

This is the first shovelfull off the top of the mountain

Let's do problem 2 just to double our pleasure

"Always" is a strong word

Let's do one more of these and get on with life

That's a bad habit that I have

I'm too expensive for that

Let's do a dippy little example

I know this is an insult to your intelligence

That could wreck the whole ship here, I mean it's not a minor iceberg

There's an example where one minus sign can cause the whole bridge to collapse

He was really in a foul mood this time

Life has now got radicals in it, and not just the political type

That we can do faster than making a cup of instant coffee

Get it on the fly

If I have the slightest of dubies about it

In case you're interviewing with DuPont and they ask you about SINH, you should be able to say something intelligent

You have to have the perseverance of Daniel

Whack it

Am I comfortable with that?  I think I am.   I KNOW I am!

Right there is an honest to God...

I seem to think that was right in an earlier life, but that was last night

Man, the Wronskian is just staring at you!

“Mimicking”

The rest is just gruntwork, as if some of this hasn't been gruntwork already

D Blatto over Blatto

D Cat over Cat

Any sane person would have done this by undetermined coefficients

If you think you are a good integrator, tackle this!

How did all of this get its birth?

Now, I'm going to have to erase that

Any sane person would look at this and say...

Maybe I'm using "C" in too many contexts

What's the short of the story here folks?

Sine is an odd function, not strange just odd

X is doing double duty

I thought I might chase through an example

Does that give you worries?

Take this home and tack it up over your bed

What's your pleasure?  2+i, will that make you happy campers?

We're gonna pay the price later with harder differentiation

What's the integral of D Cabin / Cabin?  Natural log.  Add the "C" and you have Noah's ark

There are literally billions of solutions

If a guy steps off the bus and hands you the following function

Put it up high, it'll be a good stretching exercise

If you don't have the same eigenvalues, the whole ship is off course

I'm entitled to be in here until 29 after, you're pressing your luck by coming in here early

That hasn't got "T" in it, it has coffee instead

Otherwise we're building a skyscraper on quicksand

How do I feel at this juncture?

I don't want any fractions in my life

What did “A” start life as?

The variation that I use is "Math is the Common Denominator"

We'll do the French bathing suit version of this - just the bare essentials

If you think this cures all the ills of the world, you know, you're wrong

That is the texture of number two

“A” and “B” have gotta be sumthin if you prefer Central Ohio language better

Everybody and his brother would cancel that out

Now, frankly, I'll let you in on a little secret

This thing is making its second appearance today

You must suffer through this once in your life

And your author does this, and it's the right thing to do

Is there something that just stares at you right there?

I don't want to be in the position to say "Here's the Gospel, Here's the Gospel, Here's the Gospel"

Let's push it all the way

I've got a bad angle on this and bad lighting too

We're pulling out an awful lot of machinery to do the obvious

Does that make life take on a nice complexion?

Goody Goody Gumdrops

There's a little bit of me that really wants to do this

So what do I have? What do I get?

And I would, just to make the typesetter happy

Life comes tumbling down

I'd have to play with it

I may have messed it up.  Did I mess it up?  In fact I DID mess it up

I've got kind of a 10% feeling that those are mutually exclusive

Let's just blast away

I'm just playing with you

I don't want someone saying on the evaluations that he always holds us 2 hours after class

Is everyone on cloud nine with excitement about this?

It's analogous to coming up on a wreck on the highway, it just sickens you but there's nothing you can do about it

Progress is often bloodying our noses a lot

That way there's not so much on the line

I'm not gonna swing at that

There's an example where one keystroke can mean the difference between night and day

Does that give you worries?

Well, Maple has so many blasted commands

You can bet your life

If there's justice in the world like I hope there is

In the same spirit

You're gonna brush off a little rust in your factoring

That's the cheapie

By gollies maybe it'll factor.  Maybe it won't

Any questions on that?  I don't want to just throw this up here

Let's test ourselves

Now, obviously...

There are a thousand ways to solve this, well not quite 1,000

I'm no different than you in some senses, well, most senses

Let's walk through this example

Let's differentiate X, not drink lemonade

I was once on your side of the desk

How do you feel in one syllable?

There's a certain amount of contradiction here, unless my logic isn't serving me well today

That's almost the truth

You think you've topped the mountain

Let's see if we can prejudice our opinion here

If you put monkeys at the typesetter, eventually they will come up with Shakespeare's work

 Don’t get me wrong, I'm not calling you monkeys

The game is over before it commences

It's an entirely new ballgame

I don't want to wave my hands at this

Show a function defined by that gets you out of the woods

It isn't 100% mysterious where these come from

Somebody got thrown through the door

Do that and the game's over

Why do I need to convince you that is a sem-a-circle?

Let's go back to the world's simplest case

I did some pretty heavy work there

That is to say…

Now life will be better, life will be a LOT better

This would have to be a shocker

And I grant you…

By gollies you can't do that

This just doesn't look hopeful

I'm a little disbelieving here

I think that “X” got lost, and that says I ate some bad cereal this morning

Let's write it in bigger print

I'm drawing on all my talent and taking the derivative of that thing and getting that thing

It was a successful candidate--not like Bob Dole;  For him it just didn't work out

It's just a hope and a prayer

Throw this back in the equation

I'm replacing “P” by what it is

That's the trouble with thinking ahead, I was thinking ahead.  You should never think ahead

I don't want Y-primes in my life

Maybe that will work.  Maybe it won't

That one will yield in a hurry

PX, like post exchange if you're in the military

In fear that we're going to see the forest but never count one tree I'll do an earlier example

I'm not a perfect man, the last perfect man to walk the Earth got nailed to a cross

Who will show their diligence today?

The whole shebang

If you are just an ordinary guy on the street in downtown Granville

That's the way my teacher taught me

Let's see the texture of one of that flavor

If that is what “P” is, what the dickens is P-prime?

You're not gonna eliminate “Y” if its mate is looking out for it

I'm gonna gain some ground here

I bet you guys buy the large Sprite then take the small

That's easier than rolling off a log

This is an interesting consumer group, you pay for something then you don't want it

Well I've got 5 minutes...I'd hate to waste your valuable tuition money and mine

I didn't have an “X”.  All of the sudden I have an “X”.  That's not good business

Let's kill a  -2 if you don't mind

Human nature is interesting.  That's the reason we have a Psych department

Then you draw on all your integration talents

I don't want to bet a day's wages on that

If cat is the inverse sine of elephant, then elephant is the sine of cat.  I mean so we don't use “X” and “Y” we can use cats and elephants

My day gets an extra boost from you people

Seven.  Seven is my favorite number

Now just integrate and say your prayers

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.  That's why we match up husband and wife a lot

Let's pretend you're in the battlezone under attack.  You don't want to stick your head out of the foxhole

I've got to take this discussion to a higher plane

Kill as many Y-primes as you can

“Wherewithal”

That's what your author exhibits

Because the chain rule is in our life, you have to do 2 derivatives

If I depend on my friend for some cake, and he's getting his cake from his wife, I'm really depending on his wife for cake

I'm giving you a $2.00 answer for a $1.75 question

We can't live with dP/dX

I'm not claiming you need a Ph.D. in the obvious to see this

We're going to clear the air once and for all

If you have got one of the Clairaut flavor

I'm not unduly unwise about what I did

You need to know all three flavors

2P or not to be

We know we're living right if that shows up in our life

Spending some time in the woods isn't so bad

He shows up parachuting to Earth, I mean he didn't just take the train

People don't just go around solving cubics

Let's move on because we really need to taste two more flavors

Mathematicians struggle for half their life

I'm going to say P equals Y-prime because it does

Let me hold your hand and guide you through #1

You could leave it like that and I would not be an unsettled guy

Why don't you work this as fast as I work it?

This is almost overkill but let's keep it going

I could just say this is clear to the casual observer

Now I think you can see our hopes rising and escalating

Frankly it's got a prayer.  Nope, its gonna miss by a hair

You keep me honest. Whoops, I'm not honest!

So how do I feel?  Pretty bad

And really, it's just two lines of code folks

Let's shove this back up here

I'll call it “K” to cover myself

99 times out of 100, well maybe that's a little too strong

I don't want to be just dispersing words here

Maybe I should just make this a 4-story fraction so everyone including myself can see it

P=CX^2, now we should start feeling pretty good

You should major in underwater fire fighting

Well I don't like those smelly boards, we call them “Euphoria boards”; I mean you might as well go sniff a bunch of airplane glue

We'll do some mental gymnastics here

It is chapter 16, pure and simple

So then what do you say to yourself?

I don't want to start this problem and mess it up myself

Y-prime equals P because P equals Y-prime

Look upstairs and to the left and you have a cancellation buddy

Okay...

We're going to have so many constants that I'm going to have to label them K1, K2 and K3

This has got to go folks

There's something called big-O in mathematics that I'll explain someday

I've provided you with the perfect coding, with no typos

I got on a roll with writing pluses

Right there is what changes the complexion of life a lot

Later on we'll classify these as 2 flavors

If you've got 1 over 1 minus box, it equals box to the N

Why, the whole purpose there was to get X-3 in the box

Let's walk through this as gently as I can

This kinda looks like doubletalk

That's an awful lot of chalk to use

Something like that can just kill the whole ship

Did I get that last night? Yes I did

We'll chop it up fine so no one chokes on it

If a guy approaches me in the bar, I'll show him my pistol and say "What was that you wanted again?" If he still isn't convinced then I'll pull out my cannon

Something has nothing to do with anything at this juncture

We'll break singular points up into 2 flavors later -- chocolate and cherry

Do not pass go, do not collect $200, go directly to the answer

The game is over; you can't even go for an extra point or a field goal

Let's take 13 just to pick on a lucky number

Chapter 2

Same Sh*t, Different Day
(One Year Later)

I reached up into the sky and the good Lord handed it to me.  Now I'll tell you what request I made to get it

If you've got your differentiation glasses on

Any 5-year-old who has practiced this for 6 or 7 years is good at it

The minus is the iceberg that hit the Titanic

You know that I'm living the clean life when it simplifies as much as it does

That should cure most all the ills

To derive the trig substitutions is to reinvent the wheel

The problem here is--one little glitch and the world comes tumbling down

It's not only "am I in the ballpark" but "am I doing it right?"

I realize that you can't just go around willy-nilly canceling things

You've gotta be careful just generally dropping things

The next version of Maple is so enhanced that it muddies the waters

I like an alert audience

It's upside down or downside up, depending on how you look at it

You didn't have your algebra glasses on (M.D.W. to D.D.B.)

You may not think the eye-appeal is super

This will no doubt bring back good intentions

I don't want any mystery about what's coming

Do you do it brute force or in your head?  It's better to do it in your head

Most people could clear fractions at this juncture

Yeah, I would be 97% happy

A lot of this is being careful and not letting the pen misbehave

Maybe I'm telling you the obvious

Enter these lines of code and reflect for a moment

This new version of code is driving me up the wall

There's no market for these (handouts) on the street

Let's pretend we're under battle conditions

Let's pick on number 13, since it's a good lucky number

That wasn't something to blow you out of the water

That's just a 3- or 4-stepper there

Obviously, what's the cheapest method?

The easiest way out of the woods is using exactness

Let's let somebody over 40 pick the problem

e, then ln -- that's a nice way to go around in a circle

COS(x) * SEC(x) is a complicated way of writing 1

It looks like it's not trying to skate to the top of Mt. Everest

In the vernacular of central Ohio, we are right on the money

We are going to take a little shovelful off of Mt. Everest with Numerical Methods

It's not for the faint of heart

Unless you have the patience of Job

Obviously, folks, this can almost do brain damage

Newton's Law of Cooling is something you should write home to your parents about

I have had Physics I for 3 or 4 years

That's precisely what I got when Jay Leno was on

Let's see if my work from last night withstands the light of day

You could toss it in a barrel of molasses

If I brought a cold can of pop in the room, the temperature changes -- It's about the equivalent to what a railroad rail would bend if a fly lighted on it

The best way to begin a 1000-mile journey is to take the first step... but it's not a 1000-mile journey; it's more like a half-mile journey

2 = e^(.02t) --> t = 30 something.  They should make a TV show with that title

Is this the high point of the week for you?

Trent, how are things in my Amen corner?

That's the reason Pythagoras made his appearance on this Earth

Did I tell the truth?

Inspecting is a scientific word for guessing

If you are a sophisticated guesser, then life gets better.

This is not something you do while dining at the Granville Inn

You say your prayers, put 5 dollars extra in the collection plate

If you saw this in earlier chapters, you would have pushed the panic button

Let's see if that's what I thought in an earlier life

The casual observer can push on

Goody goody gumdrops

This is like organizing 200 kindergartners in a fire drill

(Changing the minus to a plus) can almost be corrected in your notes without an eraser

It's like buying air conditioner fluid for your car and then saying don't deliver it

This'll bring back good memories of when you turned 16

I hear a groundswell of interest for tangent

(3W - 2*cos(Y)) dW <-- don't want a dwi; that shows up in the newspaper

What's dz? And don't tell me: "a sorority"

You would be almost insulted if I put that on the test, wouldn't you?

You don't mind being insulted under these conditions

Let's go.  Anyway, my time's expensive at this point.  I have to go get my food stamps anyway

One week from today, you get an opportunity to excel -- you might want to prep yourself

Let's use a "z" -- if you take complex analysis, you'll see about 1000 of these.  Every time you put the chalk to the board, it's z z z, and it's not supposed to put you to sleep, either

If this is helpful, I want to spend your tuition payment as you see fit

I don't want to put an "N" in your notes, and then you get to the White House, it goes in the archives, and I look bad

Just about as exciting as a month-old newspaper, right?

10.5 ft/sec, not blades of grass per second

0 = 0.  We love to see equations that are that profound

(to Kim) You're kind-of stealing my thunder

It wasn't like some bird flew by with a banner and gave me these answers

This guys' in Troublesville in terms of having 0 in what places?

I'm gonna bring in that fly one of these days--I've got it in my office (the fly in the ointment)

You can't live with 2 of them... you'll get charged with polygamy

Any solution in the world, and there are literally millions of them, must have that texture

Now let's back up, because I'm getting the cart before the horse here

A room full of monkeys will eventually type out Shakespeare

If you had the wrong cereal this morning, it can damage your thinking machine

This is the biggest struggle I've had all semester

Three dots covers a multitude of sins

Do you feel like your tuition money is being well spent?

By gollys that's the most astute observation I've heard all day

What are the possible roots here?  1, 2, and 4.  So we don't need a century of time to do this

Life is not 100% ordinary as you might think

I'm going to apply the derivative operator to that whole shebang

It's like putting socks and shoes on in the morning -- it's important you get the order right

We could obviously peek in the book, but let's pretend we are drawing on our skills

See this for what it is

I realize, if you lay this down on the sidewalk, nobody's going to appreciate it

Now, why do we feel good about it?

I want you to pretend you've never seen this, and then do it yourself

This will push the clouds aside, and you'll see the sunlight

It's too early to go to lunch, so I guess you can just go to class.  Otherwise, I was gonna say you could go indulge and bulge

It's not like I'm asking you to keep 50 corks underwater at the same time

I just erased the answer, but you've got it in your notes for all eternity

So, this would put an insomniac to sleep

(To Mary)  Can you help your dear ol' dad here?

I'm awfully expensive to do arithmetic

(To Trent)  You have the markings of a teacher

(Dr. Bonar actually drew a picture frame, complete with a hanging string & a nail, on the board, to surround Euler's formula:  e^(ix) = cos(x) + i*sin(x) = cis(x).  I can't believe it, but he actually did that.)

I don't want something profound carved on my tombstone, but if I had to, then this (Euler's formula) is one of the biggies. -- Now, let's not let this leave the room.

That should bring back memories, if not, fun memories

An unnamed lobbyist said, "Dad, you ought to make it later"

This should not keep you up past midnight, or cause you to find a high bridge to jump off of

e^(i*Pi) + 1 = 0.  It's a nice little thing to write to your parents about, if you're writing a letter home

Right there is a stray mark on the board--Dr. Westmoreland left it in the last class

It's by-golly-by-guess

I mean, you're supposed to make intelligent guesses

There's a theorem: minus times minus is plus

If life works as we want

Slap an operator on it

"hit it" means "apply"

I was thinking so much about sin that I couldn't think about c-o-s

I'll tell the payroll office to take off 2 dollars, since I would take off 2 points

The rest of it is "plug in and turn the crank"

See if you can do all of them without stubbing your toe

25's got a different wrinkle to it

We don't violate the 10 commandments

We can get the answer in a whipsnitch

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure it out

If I put up 2x^2 + 7x + 3 = ax^2 + bx + c and say, "what's a, b, and c," then Simple Sam and his brother's going to say, "a = 2, b = 7, c = 3."  And if I ask why, he'll probably raise his voice and say, "they are linearly independent."

Now a red flag kind-of goes up at this point

Multiply by 3.  That won't strain our machinery

Did we spread confusion or did we spread clarity?

I'm not going to marry Elizabeth Taylor.  I can tell ya I feel like Elizabeth Taylor's eighth husband--I know what I need to do, but now can I do it?

That gives you the particular solution in a whipsnitch.  I'm going to define that carefully someday.

It's really intelligence by foresight

"Nice-looking" means it's a solution to a homogeneous differential equation with constant coefficients

I'm slightly better than a babe in the woods on Maple

I wouldn't win any prizes at a Maple contest

It's a sinkhole for time

Maple is like beating your head with a hammer--it feels good when you stop

Now what do you say to yourself under your breath?  "That's lovely!"

What flavor is this, if you stop at the ice cream store?

I'm about as organized as a cat with diarrhea

I don't want to just say, "This is the Gospel, this is the Gospel, this is the Gospel."

This is not exactly a David Copperfield stunt that we're doing here

That looks about as messy as a kitten with diarrhea

"Right on, Brother Bonar!" should be coming next

It's another step on the ladder on our way all the way up to Heaven

That's the reason I got my sledgehammer out of the toolshed

Now we start to get frightened

To help out some ills, we say...

Let's do it with lots of chalk

Now I'm not doing this for my health

I'm approaching senior citizen status... I need help; help and understanding

That's doesn't have much eye-appeal until you're a mathematician

If I asked a third-grader to find 2 numbers to make that (3x + 3y = 0) happy...

Frankly, it's not like asking Bobby Ray Hall to win the Indy 500 driving a beetle

I get 2 equations in the twinkling of an eye

What's your pleasure at this point?

You judiciously juggle those

Frankly, folks, I'm not inclined to let you have too much party time, but maybe 6 minutes won't ruin you

"F = ma" At some point in your life, you fell in love with that, and are still in love with it, no doubt

It'll come out in the wash, and we've got good machinery doing the washing things

5 = (1/2) * k.  Get our calculators, and what is k?

Kim, what did you do this weekend?  I mean, I don't want to pry

How old is this young whippersnapper?

That's better than good!  That's super!  Wait till you start wearing bifocals

1/4 = c1 + 0 + 0.  And then, drawing on our algebra skills, what is c1?

Simple Sam and his brother would see that, but I didn't

I don't know that I'm using your tuition time all that efficiently

You know, I think I could walk through a blizzard for a couple of miles easier than doing this

This guy's going to steer the ship.  That's guy's going to try, but won't succeed

Do you know where the expression "going haywire" comes from?  "Hooray for our side"?  You're getting a liberal arts education--you need to know these kind of things

I need my Amen, people

Now we're not going to have time to build that snowman, so we'll do it at a later date

I turned something you would have been as comfortable with as cuddling with your cat into something you probably aren't as comfortable with

I'm going to start eating apples so I don't make so many mistakes here

I'm sure we're preaching to the saved

There is a theorem that says 2m - 2m = 0

The amount of rum I had would fit in a thimble

But there's no rule, no Commandment in the Bible, that says it has to be that way

If you watch the Walton's, "the recipe" means the recipe for making moonshine

How are they related?  They're not brother and sister--they're complex conjugates

We're about there, so don't feel like we're on the Titanic and hit an iceberg

He's in a much, much fouler mood

It's a lot easier than bicycling up a hill in a windstorm

You know, your parents take you by the hospital and show you where you came from

7, 11, if you're thinking in convenience store terms

Well, we'll wait a few more minutes, but he's probably at the library engrossed in his reading

It is the gospel--it comes straight from the book of Daniel

"It's no different than getting a tire out of your car or something.  You figure out a way to do it." (D.D.B.)  "You call AAA." (Mary)

There's a theorem: 5 of something minus 4 of something is 1 of something

I can see the excitement level for that is immense

"I think the 'm' just fell off the chalkboard." (Katie)

"I'm so glad to have an alert audience, and gentle too!" (D.D.B.)

Do you people know about 3 & 1 oil?

A minor, minor glitch, but it can sink the Titanic if you have those glitches

Maybe we just need to have it in Chicago talk

Now the guy hands us this differential equation

Why do we have at least mild interest in it?

Anyway, we kind of "skinned the cat in two ways," in vernacular central Ohio

What's the origin of "Okee-dok"?  Research that.  Go to the library.  Get on the web

P = p + xp' + f'(p)*p'.  My algebra teacher taught me that I could cancel those ("P" on each side of this equation)

I whipped out 6 or 8 of these, just to make sure I knocked off rust from a previous life

I have a guilt complex when I let you out early, but I can go to confession

Now your level of excitement for that is probably matched by mine

What's the moral of the story?  Work hard. Say your prayers.  There's a theorem somewhere that says work coupled with prayer amounts to something

Certainly half of a constant is a constant.  If you want me to, I'll prove that theorem

I need that kind of assistance, wayward fellow that I am

You can tell I ate too many Easter eggs

You do that until you get blisters on your hand about it

With probability .99, so that gives me a little room to squirm

There's an old saying--taking a test is no time to do research

(About the younger Bedient)  Now he's a former student, so I can kind-of put my hand on his shoulder and ask him if he knows what he's doing

I'm not going to stand up here and pretend I understand what he's doing

So that wrecks the ship before you even start

Let's mark those people absent who are absent--send the sheriff after them later

Now, what's that 8 on top of sigma that fell over?  (Talking about the infinity symbol above a sigma)

I mean, we put three dots just to make ourselves feel better

Now there are some guys that have no "cancellation buddy"

Let's try 13--that's a good lucky number

We're just taking a teaspoon of water out of the bathtub with this book

Now, let's take a couple little dippy problems out of the section

What's the fly in the ointment?

My machine isn't working perfectly

I mean, I've got 30 watchful eyes here

I just wonder if he slipped a gear here

He gets sine & cosh, which doesn't frighten me unduly

I'm a little upset with him

It's not the same magnitude as the Y2K problem

Let's go with the smaller root and say our prayers... but it'll work

We're not asking you to move Mt. Everest

Now I know this is the bird's eye view of this lecture, or some say the French bathing suit lecture, where we cover the bare essentials

You always yield to temptation, at least on matters mathematical

You say "Ah" loudly to yourself

It's like 2 people beginning a race to infinity, but one starts out one step ahead

And if you had a giant poster, you could exhibit 100 terms

Wading through this will make you enjoy the weekend even more

So what is it you say?  "Ah!"

Don't divide too quickly; walk past the trouble point

You know what?  That's the trouble with thinking ahead

If you were a betting person, what would you bet a2 is?

You've got to step back 2 or 3 steps... not so much that you fall off the cliff

You just say your prayers and put an extra 100 dollars in the collection plate--it brings better success

One slip of the pencil, and the world tumbles

I have to wait 47 hours to see you again

You can always protect your... tail.  I had to think about what word I wanted to use there

What the heck is that?

Let's all pretend that we are teaching our 11-year-old brother how to do this, and do it real slow

Actually, I strained my arithmetic machine

Life is not made up of "2 + 3" for all of our careers

We're getting up to the top of the TV antenna now--it's getting a little bit wobbly

That's the reason the good Lord gave us logarithmic differentiation

Squint your eyes, think deeply, and remember how to differentiate that using logarithmic differentiation

I sure do appreciate you keeping me honest--at least in this respect; you can't do it universally

 I've been doing this all my life, although it feels like longer

That's the reason they make fingers--to wipe out mistakes

If I put C = -1, it's as harmless as a good-natured honey bee

So what's the recite?  And I'm not talking about the sisters on the Waltons who have a recipe for making moonshine

U = WV <-- sounds like a good State

I don't want to give you so much fun that you don't enjoy your next class

Change is inevitable except from a vending machine

"What's your pleasure?  Let's use linear algebra, since we have that in our toolkit." (D.D.B.)  "My toolkit's not as big as yours" (Eric)

"I got a lot of studying to do." (M.D.W.)  "Me too!!" (Mary)

Chapter 3

This Train Arrived Early
(The Very First Recorded Bonarisms)

Be careful.  99.9% of the time, ain't no worry

Prove that you're right with more than raising your voice

Have fun with this tonight.  Struggle with 14

Suppose the guy steps off the bus and says, "What is a relation?"

Once you match "A" with somebody, don't let him be charged for polygamy

Be sure--have clarity

The last guy on earth that was perfect got nailed to a cross, so I'm happy that I fall just a bit short

See how far we can go with the problems

You grab 2 guys out of this soccer stadium, and either "A is related to B" or "B is related to A"

How would you explain this to your roommate tonight?

Get pretty solid on the odds

Work diligently on the review exercises

"Maybe we're preaching to the choir." (D.D.B.)
"What's that mean?" (M.D.W.) 
"The choir represents the model citizens who don't need to be preached to about hellfire & damnation" (D.D.B.)

If we went over miscellaneous, it would be fair game

I must say that it's hard for me to get my level of excitement real high for a problem such as problem one

Assume to the contrary and then arrive at craziness

See if something is mysterious in statements of theorems

When I think of it, I literally think of birds in a chicken house.  I've got 20 cages and 22 birds

You ignore the order in which items were put into the basket…

The old axiom among lawyers: More money is taken at pinpoint than gunpoint

Get this from knowing how to add the first beaucoup integers

You're going to line up these 14 people and then snap their picture

That's what she said when the bed broke

I'm getting some glare off the board

The chalk slipped and also misbehaved

Chapter 4

A Farewell Bid
(More Originals From the Man Himself)

A vital part of this problem is missing: the number that was "pulled out of the sky"

Sometimes there are going to be these people who walk up to you and they give you...

(Someone says, "I'm perfect."  Then D.D.B. says...)  You better look behind you and see if somebody's carrying a cross.  The last guy who was perfect got nailed up on a cross about 2000 years ago

Everything that you think ought to be true is true

e = 2.718281828, the year Andrew Jackson was elected president (1828)

Assume that the guy parachuted to earth and asked you...

If a function is differentiable at a point, you can bet your boots that these hold.

The most important word in this course is "analytic"

Come to grips with examples in the facts

You are obligated to show this: You gotta go over to the closet, pull it out, and show me. (Dr. Bonar actually bent over and visually pretended to pull an object out of his imaginary closet in class!)

My life has always been exciting, since the day I left the womb

"I think that's unfair."(Allison) 
"I want to do a couple of things before I die in my life that are unfair" (D.D.B.)

It's six of one, half dozen of the other…

The most fundamental thing under the sun…

The worth of a course is busting your buns on problems

It's not something that you should call out the fire department for--to douse us all

The guy wishes to have you integrate (some expression) so he says, "Look here..."

Look, you're a little reckless with your symbolism

The proof of the pudding is... can you come to grips with these?

As long as you are dealing with an entire function, you can't get in trouble

If there's as much justice in the world as we would like…

(Dr. Bonar told us to hang the Cauchy Integral Formula over our beds!)

"Dz--sounds like a sorority, but it's not." (D.D.B.) 
"Actually, it is, Dr. Bonar." (Allison)
"Yes, I know it is" (D.D.B.)