fundamental-2
Original: fundamental-2 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A woman with a bob haircut and round glasses sits at a laptop, presenting to an audience (silhouetted heads frame the panel).
Woman: "IF YOU GIVE A FUNCTION F TO MATHEMATICA AND SAY 'WHAT'S THE DERIVATIVE OF THE INTEGRAL?' MATHEMATICA WILL RETURN F."
Caption (below panel): This is known as the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus for Engineers.
Votey:
Close-up of the same woman's face.
Woman: "'INTEGRATION BY PARTS' IS WHEN YOU TAKE PART OF SOMETHING AND TELL MATHEMATICA TO INTEGRATE IT."
A woman with a bob haircut and round glasses sits at a laptop, presenting to an audience (silhouetted heads frame the panel).
Woman: "IF YOU GIVE A FUNCTION F TO MATHEMATICA AND SAY 'WHAT'S THE DERIVATIVE OF THE INTEGRAL?' MATHEMATICA WILL RETURN F."
Caption (below panel): This is known as the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus for Engineers.
Votey:
Close-up of the same woman's face.
Woman: "'INTEGRATION BY PARTS' IS WHEN YOU TAKE PART OF SOMETHING AND TELL MATHEMATICA TO INTEGRATE IT."
Alt text
A woman with a bob haircut and round glasses sits at a laptop, addressing an audience whose heads are silhouetted on either side of the panel. She says: "If you give a function F to Mathematica and say 'what's the derivative of the integral?' Mathematica will return F." The caption below reads: "This is known as the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus for Engineers." The joke is that she restates a real calculus theorem in terms of just running it through software. In the votey, a close-up of her face, she adds: "'Integration by parts' is when you take part of something and tell Mathematica to integrate it" — a pun reducing the calculus technique to literally integrating a part of something via software.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.