MATH JOKES!?!

[Ryan Goble]

Came across this site on Twitter... a sampler.../p>

Math Jokes

1. Customer: "How much is a large order of Fibonaccos?"
   Cashier: "It's the price of a small order plus the price of a medium order."
   Henry G. Baker ([e-mail]).

    

2. Zenophobia: the irrational fear of convergent sequences.
   Mike Taylor ([e-mail]).

    

3. There really are only two types of people in the world, those that don't do math, and those that take care of them.
   Larry James ([e-mail]).

    

4. A physicist, a biologist, and a mathematician are sitting in a café and notice people going into and coming out of the house across the street. First they see two people going into the house. Time passes. After a while, they notice three persons coming out of the house.
   The physicist: "The measurement was not accurate."
   The biologist: "They have reproduced."
   The mathematician: "If one person enters the house, then it will be empty again."

    

5. An engineer, a physicist and a mathematician find themselves in an anecdote, indeed an anecdote quite similar to many that you have no doubt already heard. After some observations and rough calculations, the engineer realizes the situation and starts laughing. A few minutes later, the physicist understands too and chuckles to himself happily as he now has enough experimental evidence to publish a paper. This leaves the mathematician somewhat perplexed, as he had observed right away that he was the subject of an anecdote, and deduced quite rapidly the presence of humor from similar anecdotes, but considers this anecdote to be too trivial a corollary to be significant, let alone funny.
   Forwarded to me by Phil Freed.

    

6. Q: What is the physicist's definition of a vector space?
   A: A set V such that for any x in V, x has a little arrow drawn over it.
   Snis Pilbor ([e-mail]).

See the whole collection at http://edp.org/mathjoke.htm

[Joshua Zucker]

My friend Patrick Vennebush has a good collection in his book, and there's a blog that goes along with it too.  http://mathjokes4mathyfolks.wordpress.com/

[Ryan Goble]

And they say math folks don't have a sense of humor:)