- From: rawlins@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Gregory J. E. Rawlins)
Some years ago i came across "The Mathematics of Big Game Hunting"
(Aug-Sept.
AMM, 446-447, 1938) and would like to see more examples... - The responses below mention the following works (a few added):
A Random Walk in Science - R.L. Weber and E. Mendoza... - MATHEMATICS PURITY TEST
Count the number of yes's,
subtract from 60, and divide by 0.6. ... - Not precisely pure-math, but ...
Fuller's Law of Cosmic Irreversability:
1 pot T --> 1 pot P but 1 pot P -/-> 1 pot... - A tribe of Native Americans generally referred to their woman by the
animal hide with which they made their blanket.
Thus, one woman might be known as Squaw of Buffalo... - Old mathematicians never die; they just lose thier functions.
) From: shaw%WLBR@WLV.IMSD.CONTEL.COM (Howard Shaw)... - Q. How many mathematicians does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
A. One, who gives it to six Californians, thereby reducing... - There are three kinds of mathematicians: those who can count
and those who cannot.
From: Norman Danner <ndanger@ocf.Berkeley... - 1) A topologist is a man who doesn't know the difference between
a coffee cup and a doghunt.
2) A statistician can have his head in an oven and... - This joke was floating around a few months ago:
A guy decided to go to the brain transplant clinic to refreshen his
supply of brains.
The secretary informed him that they had three kinds...
