Who is this corn cob pipe smoking, bow tie wearing professor at the typewriter?
Archive for January, 2008
Mystery Image #2
Posted in RPI Trivia, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute History, unidentified photographs, tagged faculty, identified image, mystery image, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, RPI on January 16, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Nerdy Cheer?
Posted in RPI Trivia, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute History, tagged alma mater, cheer, math, pi, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, RPI, RPI athletics, RPI history, school spirit, songs on January 4, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Here’s a question about RPI’s alma mater — did the lyrics include the first few digits of pi? The answer is no, but there was a cheer that included it along with some other math lingo. Do you know it?
E to the X – DY -DX
E to the X – DX
cosine, secant, tangent, sine,
3 – [...]