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Science Humor
- Problem: To Catch a Lion in the Sahara Desert.
(Hunting lions in Africa was originally published as "A contribution
to the mathematical theory of big game hunting
in the American
Mathematical...
- Not a joke, but a humorous ditty I heard from some guys in an
engineering fraternity (to the best of my recollection)
I'll do it phonetically:
ee to the ex dee ex,
ee to...
- The Programmers' Cheer --
Shift to the left, shift to the right
Pop up, push down, byte, byte, byte...
- Other cheers:
E to the x dx dy
radical transcendental pi
secant cosine tangent sine
3.14159
2.71828
come on folks let's integerate
E to the i dx dy
E to y dy
cosine secant log of pi...
- Words in {} should be interpreted as greek letters
Q: I M A {pi}{rho}Maniac. R U 1,2?
...
- Three men are in a hot-air balloon. Soon, they find themselves lost
in a canyon somewhere
One of the three men says, "I've got an idea.
We can...
- Actually, I prefer the IBM version of this joke...
A small
14-seat plane is circling for a landing in Atlanta...
- I'm not sure if the following one is a true story or not)
The great logician Bertrand Russell (or was it A.N
Whitehead?)
once claimed that he could prove anything...
- THE STORY OF BABEL:
In the beginning there was only one kind of Mathematician
created by
the Great Mathematical Spirit form the Book...
- Methods of Mathematical Proof
This is from _A Random Walk in Science_ (by Joel E
Cohen?):
To illustrate the various methods of proof...
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