MATH HUMOR
Published on November 15 2011
A change of pace this week – enjoy!
Q: What did the zero say to the eight?
A: Nice belt!
Theorem: A cat has nine tails.
Proof: No cat has eight tails.
Since one cat has one more tail than no cat, it must have nine tails.
- Trigonometry for farmers: swine and coswine…
- Some engineers are trying to measure the height of a flag pole. They only have a measuring tape and are quite frustrated trying to keep the tape along the pole: It falls down all the time. A mathematician comes along and asks what they are doing. They explain it to him.
“Well, that’s easy…” He pulls the pole out of the ground, lays it down, and measures it easily. After he has left, one of the engineers says: “That’s so typical of these mathematicians! What we need is the height – and he gives us the length!”
- In a class, a math professor claims that he can prove everything under the assumption that 1+1=1. A student challenges him: “Then prove that you’re the pope!” He ponders for a moment and then replies: “I am one, and the pope is one. Therefore, the pope and I are one.”
- One evening Rene Descartes went to relax at a local tavern. The bartender approached and said, “Ah, good evening Monsieur Descartes! Shall I serve you the usual drink?” Descartes replied, “I think not.” and promptly vanished.
- 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 carry our voices far.” So he leans over the basket and yells out, “Helllloooooo! Where are we?” (They hear the echo several times.) Fifteen minutes later, they hear this echoing voice: “Helllloooooo! You’re lost!!” One of the men says, “That must have been a mathematician.” Puzzled, one of the other men asks, “Why do you say that?” The reply: “For three reasons. 1) He took a long time to answer, 2) he was absolutely correct, and 3) his answer was absolutely useless.”
You can find a lot more math jokes and humor. Just type in ‘math jokes’ or ‘math humor’ in your search engine and you’ll find tons of ‘em.
Dave Gardner
Mathematician in Residence