In this case...

Maclaurin's Theorem, for an odd reason, will forever be funny to me.

I nearly laughed out loud in stats class this morning over a memory of my Singapore days. Prof. Parsa mentioned briefly about a formula, which as I recall, is linked to the Maclaurin's Theorem.

When I was studying in Singapore, one of my Math lecturers had a weird habit. Her lectures were dotted with "in this case"s. And I mean that she sprinkled that phrase liberally EVERYWHERE. She, in this case, had to say the 3, in this case, "magic" words at least, in this case, several times in one sentence.

Her habit was a constant source of jokes in class. We often tried to keep track of how many "in this case"s she said in a 1 1/2 hour lecture. One of the other classes actually made a pact to do a "human wave" in class IF she ever exceeded 200 "in this case"s. She did reach the target, but I never got to see the "human wave".

As time went on, her "motto" ceased to bug me, and soon I barely noticed the 3 special words anymore. However, the highlight of her lectures came late during my stint in Singapore, when she said..

"For this example, we will use, in this case, the Maclaurin's, IN THIS CASE, Theorem..."

which led me to wonder how many other "Maclaurin's" are there?