Glenn Latham (Mr. Long), the crew's bashful young number cruncher, fills the blackboard with equations.
In the canonical mathematical encounter, a mathematician scribbles across a blackboard, writes equations and diagrams, and steps back to inspect their inscriptions.
I live a few blocks away from a billboard for Scorpion (featuring four TV geniuses, a blackboard with equations, the liquid metal cop from Terminator 2, the runner-up from season five of American Idol, and the tagline, "This team is pure genius") which mocks me daily from high above my 2000 Toyota Celica.
In one scene set in a classroom he covers the blackboard with equations, writing so quickly that I assumed it was a camera trick until the shot opened up and it was clear that it was him and he really was writing all of the numbers and Greek letters as though he had been doing it all his life.
Its practitioners fill blackboards with equations and clog computers with data.
They spend at least half of each day standing in front of blackboards, writing equations and arguing about outer space.
Many described their professors in the humanities as engaging, while math teachers typically faced the blackboard, working out equations.
"I've been trying to understand something about the fact that the universe is accelerating," he explained, erasing a double-wide blackboard covered with equations.
The Chicago back porch is framed against a vast blackboard scrawled with equations, theoretical notations and partial erasures in white chalk that suggest the enormous scale of Robert's calculations.
There was a blackboard with a daunting equation written on it: 2 + 2 = x2 + 2x (3π√CO) / 102 Sellars and the singers amused themselves by scrawling new equations each day.
