- Two male mathematicians are in a bar.
The first one says to the second that the average person knows very
little about basic mathematics.
The second one disagrees, and claims that most people... - This was made by Mike Bender and Sarah Herr:
MATHEMATICS PURITY TEST
Count the number of yes's,
subtract from 60, and divide by 0.6. ---------- ... - A somewhat advanced society has figured how to package basic knowledge
in pill form.
A student, needing some learning, goes to the pharmacy... - A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into
theorems" -- P.... - Three standard Peter Lax jokes (heard in his lectures) :
1. What's the contour integral around Western Europe... - Algebraic symbols are used when you do not know what
you are talking about... - Heisenberg might have slept here.
Moebius always does it on the same side.
Statisticians probably do it Algebraists do it in... - A promising PhD candidate was presenting his thesis at his final
examination.
He proceeded with a derivation and ended up with something... - There was a mad scientist ( a mad ...social... scientist ) who
kidnapped three colleagues,
an engineer, a physicist, and a mathematician, and... - Problem: To Catch a Lion in the Sahara Desert.
(Hunting lions in Africa was originally published as...
