Monthly Archives: February 2006

Stumbleupon Review Ya’ hear about the geometer who went to the beach to catch the rays and became a tangent ?

Stumbleupon Review 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. Hey says “hmmm… Well, 1 is prime, 3 is prime, 5 … Continue reading →

Stumbleupon Review Lemma: All horses are the same color. Proof (by induction): Case n=1: In a set with only one horse, it is obvious that all horses in that set are the same color. Case n=k: Suppose you have a … Continue reading →

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.

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →