In Bari the brilliant lesson: trigonometry is a party between breasts and cosines – Repubblica TV

The boring lessons of the teacher are banned with a monotonous tone inanella principles and operations. To the students of the Polytechnic of Bari, Alessio Pomponio, associate professor of mathematical analysis, explains the trigonometric functions as a party. With tangent, sine and cosine, or the variables x or -x a in the invitee parterre. It also imitates them with the body in a video that has been around the web among students and professionals. For example, about constant functions, he extends his arms simulating a horizontal line and says: "Everyone is having fun. In their own way also the constant functions ". Then another word play: "There are those who are calmer and more calm. There are compound functions, right? But of course there are those who are triggering more: breast and cosine. And I do not tell you the bribe, "notes the professor, causing the amazement (and attention) of his students. For this reason, insiders, on Facebook, observe how Pomponio "explained the trend of trigonometric functions in such a nice way as to remain alive in the minds of the students present". This is the comment of the authors of the Facebook page 'Ingegneria del suicide'

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