- Several students were asked the following problem:
Prove that all odd integers are prime.
Well, the first student to try to do this was a math student.... - An engineer, a physicist and a mathmetician were driving in the country
when they came upon pasture after pasture with only black cows in them.
The engineer said, "There seem to be only cows colored... - Factorials were invented to make math look more exciting.
(Submitted by Steven Wright, afelson@rmii.com)... - Theorem: a cat has nine tails.
Proof:
No cat has eight tails.
A cat has one tail more than no cat.
Therefore, a cat has nine tails.... - My geometry teacher was sometimes acute, and sometimes
obtuse, but always, he was right.
- And now, for some really bad picture jokes (that I heard at Cal Poly SLO)
Q: What's the title of this picture ?
.... - I saw the following scrawled on a math office blackboard in college
1 + 1 = 3, for large values of 1... - lim ----
8->9 \/ 8 = 3
Along the same lines:
lim sqrt (3) = 2
3->4
- Asked how his pet parrot died, the mathematician answered
"Polynomial. Polygon.
- Lumberjacks make good musicians because of their natural logarithms.
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