Category Archives: Humour

The ark lands after The

Stumbleupon Review The ark lands after The Flood. Noah lets all the animals out. Says, “Go and multiply.” Several months pass. Noah decides to check up on the animals. All are doing fine except a pair of snakes. “What’s the … Continue reading

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What is “pi

Stumbleupon Review What is “pi”? Mathematician: Pi is the number expressing the relationship between the circumference of a circle and its diameter. Physicist: Pi is 3.1415927 plus or minus 0.000000005 Engineer: Pi is about 3.

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The great logician Betrand

Stumbleupon Review The great logician Betrand Russell (or was it A.N. Whitehead?) once claimed that he could prove anything if given that 1+1=1. So one day, some smarty-pants asked him, “Ok. Prove that you’re the Pope.” He thought for a … Continue reading

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THE STORY OF BABEL

Stumbleupon Review THE STORY OF BABEL: In the beginning there was only one kind of Mathematician, created by the Great Mathamatical Spirit form the Book: the Topologist. And they grew to large numbers and prospered. One day they looked up … Continue reading

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Three men are in a hot-

Stumbleupon Review 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 call for help in this canyon and the echo will … Continue reading

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There was a mad scientist (

Stumbleupon Review There was a mad scientist ( a mad …social… scientist ) who kidnapped three colleagues, an engineer, a physicist, and a mathematician, and locked each of them in seperate cells with plenty of canned food and water but … Continue reading

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Here’s a limerick I picked

Stumbleupon Review Here’s a limerick I picked up off the net a few years back – looks better on paper. 3^(1/3) / | 2 3 x 3.14 3_ | z dz x cos( ———-) = ln (\/e ) | 9 … Continue reading

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Moebius always does it on

Stumbleupon Review Moebius always does it on the same side. Heisenberg might have slept here.

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Q: Why did the mathematician

Stumbleupon Review Q: Why did the mathematician name his dog “Cauchy”? A: Because he left a residue at every pole. Q: Why is it that the more accuracy you demand from an interpolation function, the more expensive it becomes to … Continue reading

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“Algebraic symbols are used

Stumbleupon Review “Algebraic symbols are used when you do not know what you are talking about.”

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