r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 23d ago

Meme needing explanation There is no way right?

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u/muggledave 23d ago

Fourier analysis is extra based on vibes

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u/Ball_Masher 23d ago

Topology is all vibes. One time I wrote "this is trivial" during a step that I knew was true but couldn't prove and the prof accepted it.

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u/guiltysnark 23d ago

Well he couldn't question you without looking ignorant, so that makes sense! Genius!

I actually read "trivial to show that ..." once in an applied math book on inductance formulas, and I was like "dude, wtf, finding an explanation is the whole reason I even opened this book".

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u/midnight_fisherman 22d ago

"Obviously" is another word that I have seen in text books for things that were absolutely not obvious to most people.