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Ripley's Believe It or Not!Who else was born today?Over 100 videos and true stories of infamous criminals.Audrey Hepburn, a fashion and film icon of the twentieth century, died January 20, 1993.VIDEO GUIDE to see what's on!Will he get to keep his win?"Bill Richardson withdrew from his cabinet nomination."Lighting Sales is a company formed to actively represent the finest industrial and commercial luminaire manufacturers in the world.Plasma and Milk Following a Shift from Hay Diet to Diets Containing Increasing Levels of Carotenoids and Vitamin E
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Fascination!PCR analysis, occurred concomitantly at the transition between the exponential and stationary growth phases of Clostridium botulinum A.The suggested collection of mathematical folklore
might be enjoyable for mathematicians and for students because every joke
contains a portion of truth or lie about our profession.Instead, we thank all Internet
collectors of math.Mathematics is made of 50 percent formulas, 50 percent proofs, and 50
percent imagination.Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them, they translate
it into their own language, and forthwith it means something entirely different.Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.Here is the illustration of this principle:
One evening Rene Descartes went to relax at a local tavern.Descartes replied, "I think not."Philosophy is a game with objectives and no rules.Mathematics is like checkers in being suitable for the young, not too
difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state.Asked if he believes in one God, a mathematician answered:
" Yes, up to isomorphism."God is real, unless proclaimed integer.The good Christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who
make empty prophecies."God geometrizes" says Plato.Mathematicians are always
impatient and intelligent."But, three and five is eight," the mathematician protested.Commiserating in the bar after the race, the engineer
says, "I don't understand why I lost all my money.They both demanded to know his secret.The engineer wakes up and smells smoke.He goes out into the hallway
and sees a fire, so he fills a trash can from his room with water and douses
the fire.He opens his door and
sees a fire in the hallway.He walks down the hall to a fire hose and after
calculating the flame velocity, distance, water pressure, trajectory, etc.The physicist grabs a bucket and leap
towards the sink, filled the bucket with water and puts out the fire.Again, the coffee machine catches
on fire.This time, the mathematician stands up, got a bucket, hands the
bucket to the physicist, thus reducing the problem to a previously solved
one.They find two palm
trees with one coconut each.Across the street they saw a man and a woman entering
a building.They have multiplied, said the biologist.Several scientists were all posed the following question: "What is 2
* 2 ?"The mathematician cogitates for a while, then announces: "I don't know
what the answer is, but I can tell you, an answer exists!".Philosopher smiles: "But what do you mean by 2 * 2 ?"The sociologist: "I don't know, but is was nice talking about it".Behavioral Ecologist: "A polygamous mating system".Medical Student : :I memorized it."The chemist and the physicist comes up
with many ingenious ways to open the can.He first designs a table
with no legs.Then he designs a table with infinitely many legs.Pie is a healthy and delicious dessert!Several fundamental theorems are proved."Hmm," says the physicist, "You mean that some Scottish sheep are black.""No," says the mathematician, "All we know is that there is at least
one sheep in Scotland, and that at least one side of that one sheep is
black!"How many legs does a horse have?"The mathematician pulls out a measuring tape and records the
circumference.Klein theories involving physical processes that
occur in spaces with dimensions of 9, 12 and even higher.The M is sitting,
clearly enjoying the lecture, while the E is frowning and looking generally
confused and puzzled.It kept falling down, etc.The mathematician looks at the psychologist in
disgust.I'm not going to go through this.The physicist made a long, straight line and proclaimed "We can assume
the length is infinite..."Earth was certainly a more efficient way to do it.The Mathematician just laughed at them.He built a tiny fence around
himself and said "I declare myself to be on the outside."Soon, they
find themselves lost in a canyon somewhere.They yell out for help: "Helllloooooo!The engineer asks, "Why do you say that?"Just to be sure, try several randomly chosen numbers:
17 is a prime, 23 is a prime...Engineer: 3 is a prime, 5 is a prime, 7 is a prime, 9 is an approximation
to a prime, 11 is a prime,...Programmer (reading the output on the screen): 3 is a prime, 3 is a
prime, 3 a is prime, 3 is a prime....Psychologist: 3 is a prime, 5 is a prime, 7 is a prime, 9 is a prime
but tries to suppress it,...Programmer: "Wait a minute, I think I have an algorithm from Knuth
on finding prime numbers...Dean, to the physics department.Why
couldn't you be like the math.Or even better, like the philosophy
department.All they need are pencils and paper."The engineer
went to his workshop and created a new HyperOpener that can open 25 cans
per second.Kennedy International Airport today, a high school
mathematics teacher was arrested trying to board a flight while in
possession of a
compass, a protractor and a graphical calculator.He was told to do
whatever he wants with the balls and the table in one hour.After an
hour, the balls are arranges
in a triangle at the center of the table.After an hour,
one of the balls is broken, one is missing, and he's
carrying the third out in his lunchbox.He asks a mathematician to check them.When it is opened
and the mathematician crawls out.Draw ten big dots representing the elements of M.Underline the word "potatoes" and discuss with
your classmates.Discuss the
result with students in your group.Anon: adapted from The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol.It is against the rule to use these
excuses in my classes!The first one says to the second
that the average person knows very little about basic mathematics.All she has to do is answer one third x cubed.Yes, that's right, he says.So she agrees,
and goes off mumbling to herself, "one thir dex cuebd...".The waitress says "one third x cubed" and while walking away, turns
back and says over her shoulder "plus a constant!"Texan, once was asked in his class: "What is
mathematics good for?"The pharmacist says "Here's a pill
for English literature."The student takes the pill and swallows it and
has new knowledge about English literature!"What else do you have?""Well, I have pills for art history, biology, and world history," replies
the pharmacist.The pharmacist says "Wait just a moment", and goes back into the storeroom
and brings back a whopper of a pill and plunks it on the counter.The pharmacist replied "Well, you know math always was a little hard
to swallow."Golden rule for math teachers: You must tell the truth, and nothing
but the truth, but not the whole truth.A:Answer: A senior high school math problem.Student: Yes sir, but what happens if the number of sheep is not x?They
discussed everything including math and U.The child went to kindergarten; In two weeks the he ask U."Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
Greens' functions are boring
And so are Fourier transforms."Yeah, I used to think it was just recreational...Now I'm
on diophantine equations and sinking deeper into transfinite
analysis.Don't let them tell you it's just recreational.They reflect the conflict between the dreams of classical clear
presentations, the complexity of modern math problems, and the survival
tactics of the authors.Proof by importance:
A large body of useful consequences all follow from the proposition in
question.C, which is
an easy consequence of Theorem 5 in reference A.The correctness of the
method is proved by any of these techniques.Proof by ghost reference:
Nothing even remotely resembling the cited theorem appears in the reference
given.Thus, we followed the advice
of mathematicians handed down from time immortal: "Wing It."I'm not about to do all the possible cases, so I'll do one and let you
figure out the rest.This is the boring part of the proof, so you can do it on your own time.Four special cases, three counting arguments, two long inductions, "and
a partridge in a pair tree."Requires no previous knowledge of the subject matter and is less than ten
lines long.If I say this it means that, and if I say that it means the other thing,
and if I say the other thing...Manipulate symbols by the rules without any hint of their true meaning
(popular in pure math courses).Today it is considered an egregious faux pas to speak or write in the
crude antedated terms of our grandfathers.The professional quality of a mathematician is inversely proportional to the
importance it attaches to space and equipment.Namely, pure mathematicians do not trust applied mathematicians,
and applied mathematicians do not understand pure mathematicians.Some mathematicians become so tense these days that they that they do
not go to sleep during seminars.Gerald Holton
If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing
on my shoulders.Gauss
Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders while computer scientists
stand on each other's toes.Interesting Theorem:
All positive integers are interesting.Proof:
Assume the contrary.Proof:
Assume the contrary.Mathematicians have announced the existence of a new whole number which
lies between 27 and 28."We don't know why it's there or what it does,"
says Cambridge mathematician, Dr.There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those who understand binary
math, and those who don't.Proof:
No cat has eight tails.Therefore,
a cat has nine tails.A: They make you an offer that you can't understand.Notes on the horse colors problem
Lemma 1.Let us assume
the proposition P(k) that k horses are the same color and
use this to imply that k+1 horses are the same color.We repeat this until by exhaustion the k+1 sets of k horses
have been shown to be the same color.Behind they have two legs
and in front they have fore legs.But the only number that is both odd
and even is infinity.Everything is the same color.The proof of lemma 1 does not depend at all on the nature of
the object under consideration.Therefore all elephants are white.By corollary 1 everything
is white.Alexander the Great did not exist and he had an infinite
number of limbs.We prove this theorem in two parts.Hence Alexander the Great did not exist.The guy comes up to her and says: "Aren't
you scared, I'll integrate you, I'll differentiate you!!!""The number you have dialed is imaginary.Please see other side for warranty details.Bottles of Beer on the Wall."Q: What is a compact city?The second one asks: "Are you sure?""That's easy: one, one, and twelve.""Twelve is an odd number of cubes to put in a cup of coffee..."How many mathematical logicians does it take to replace a lightbulb??How many numerical analysts does it take to replace a lightbulb??How many simulationists does it take to replace a lightbulb??Infinity: Each one builds a fully validated model, but the light actually
never goes on.How many Bourbakists does it take to replace a lightbulb: ?Motivation of personnel) apply.Iff these conditions
are met, we derive the result by an application of the theorems in Section
3.Only one: But it takes nine years.Aerodynamicists do it in drag.Algebraists do it by symbolic manipulation.Applied mathematicians do it by computer simulation.Banach spacers do it completely.Catastrophe theorists do it falling off part of a sheet.Cosmologists do it in the first three minutes.Geometers do it symmetrically.Hilbert spacers do it orthogonally.Large cardinals do it inaccessibly.Linear programmers do it with nearest neighbors.Logicians do it by choice, consistently and completely.Number theorists do it perfectly and rationally.Mathematical physicists understand the theory of how to do it, but have
difficulty obtaining practical results.Topologists do it openly, in multiply connected domains
Variationists do it locally and globally.Markov does it in chains.Addendum: Actually, there ARE some Poles in Western Europe, but they
are removable!One day, Jesus said to his disciples: "The Kingdom of Heaven is like 3x squared plus
8x minus 9."Q: What is the area of a circle?Q: What's purple and commutes?Was General Calculus a Roman war hero?All are doing fine except a pair of snakes.How do you prove in three steps that a sheet of paper is a lazy dog?It has real and imaginary components.The moral to this episode
is: always keep the poles off the right side of the plane.The argument was that a woman cannot attend the University senate
(the faculty meetings).Hilbert's reaction was: "Gentlemen!There is nothing
wrong to have a woman in the senate.After Laplace completed his masterpiece
Mecanique Celeste (Mechanics of the Heavens) he presented a copy to his
friend Napoleon.Napoleon, who also was a mathematician, after going
through the book called in Laplace and said to him: "You
have written a book about Mechanics of the Heavens without mentioning
God?"The following problem can be solved either the easy way or the hard
way.What
is the total distance the fly has flown?That's all there is
to it.When this problem was posed to John von Neumann, he immediately replied,
"150 miles.""It is very strange," said the poser, "but nearly everyone tries to
sum the infinite series."The wife said: "No, they're TEN!"They never discussed the problems they were working on.Students asked ** to exclude a part of the course from the final exam.Whenever he had occasion to do simple arithmetic in class, he
would get his students to help him.Kummer wrote 61 on the board.When he arrived,
though, he spoke on a much more prosaic topic.Afterwards the conference
organizers asked why he said he'd talk about the theorem and then didn't.He replied this was his standard practice, just in case he was killed on
the way to the conference.So fast was his action,
The Lorentz contraction
Reduced his rapier to a disk.If inside a circle a line
Hits the center and goes spine to spine
And the line's length is "d"
the circumference will be
d times 3.But she read science fiction
and died of constriction
Attempting a Moebius strip.But it gave him the fidgets
To write down all those digits,
So he dropped math and took up divinity.There once was a number named pi
Who frequently liked to get high.All he did every day
Was sit in his room and play
With his imaginary friend named i.She came from a tree
Whose base was shaped like an e.References to some math.Cartoons
(
Bamdad's Math Comics)
Mathematical
jokes by David Shay
Quotations
by
Frank Wikstrom.Quotations
collected by Mark Woodard at Furman University.
