- Comics -- Circle vs. Square. Who will win?
- Math Puzzles here
- Coolest music video on geometry, ever. Lusine - Two Dots
- JAMES BLUNT on Seasame Street dreams of triangles every night! Really, that is what his song says...
- This math teacher is my hero - he likes to prank his students
Remember, without geometry, life is pointless.
A new value of pi to assign.
I would fix it at 3
For it's simpler, you see,
Than 3 point 1 4 1 5 9
Hits the center and goes spine to spine
And the line's length is "d"
the circumference will be
d times 3.14159
((12 + 144 + 20 + (3 * 4^(1/2))) / 7) + (5 * 11) = 9^2 + 0
A Dozen, a Gross and a Score,
plus three times the square root of four,
divided by seven,
plus five times eleven,
- Mathematics is made of 50 percent formulas, 50 percent proofs, and 50 percent imagination.
- Old mathematicians never die; they just lose some of their functions.
- Math is like love; a simple idea, but it can get complicated.
- The difference between an introvert and extrovert mathematicians is: An introverted mathematician looks at his shoes while talking to you. An extroverted mathematician looks at your shoes.
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 goes back to bed.
Later, the physicist wakes up and smells smoke. 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. extinguishes the fire with the minimum amount of water and energy needed.
A while later, the mathematician wakes up and smells smoke. He goes to the hall, sees the fire and then the fire hose. He thinks for a moment and then exclaims, "Ah, a solution exists!" and then goes back to bed.
- "They have multiplied," said the biologist.
- "Oh no, an error in measurement," the physicist sighed.
- "If exactly one person enters the building now, it will be empty again," the mathematician concluded.
I know that two and two make four - & should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 & 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure. ~George Gordon, Lord Byron
- I accidentally divided by zero and my paper burst into flames.
- Isaac Newton's birthday.
- I could only get arbitrarily close to my textbook. I couldn't actually reach it.
- I have the proof, but there isn't room to write it in this margin.
- I was watching the World Series and got tied up trying to prove that it converged.
- I have a solar powered calculator and it was cloudy.
- I locked the paper in my trunk but a four-dimensional dog got in and ate it.
- I couldn't figure out whether i am the square of negative one or i is the square root of negative one.
- I took time out to snack on a doughnut and a cup of coffee.
- I spent the rest of the night trying to figure which one to dunk.
- I had too much pi and got sick.
Top ten excuses for not doing homework:
- CLEARLY:
- I don't want to write down all the "in- between" steps.
- OBVIOUSLY:
- I hope you weren't sleeping when we discussed this earlier, because I refuse to repeat it.
- RECALL:
- I shouldn't have to tell you this, but for those of you who erase your memory tapes after every test...
- IT CAN EASILY BE SHOWN:
- Even you, in your finite wisdom, should be able to prove this without me holding your hand.
- CHECK or CHECK FOR YOURSELF:
- This is the boring part of the proof, so you can do it on your own time.
- BRIEFLY:
- I'm running out of time, so I'll just write and talk faster.
- LET'S TALK THROUGH IT:
- I don't want to write it on the board lest I make a mistake.
Dictionary of Definitions of Terms Commonly Used in Math. lectures.
The following is a guide to terms which are commonly used but rarely defined. In the search for proper definitions for these terms we found no authoritative, nor even recognized, source. Thus, we followed the advice of mathematicians handed down from time immortal: "Wing It."
- There are two groups of people in the world; those who believe that the world can be divided into two groups of people, and those who don't.
- There are three kinds of people in the world; those who can count and those who can't.
- There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those who understand binary math, and those who don't.
A: They make you an offer that you can't understand.
A: I can subtract it as many times as I want, and it leaves 76 every time.
A: Nice belt!
A: Because they have sine and cosine to get a tan and don't need the sun!
A: Pumpkin Pi!
A: `I've told you n times, I've told you n+1 times...'
A: None. It's left to the reader as an exercise.
A: None: You can't do it with a straight edge and a compass.
They integrated from the very point of origin. Her curves were continuous, and even though he was odd, he was a real number. The day their lines first intersected, they became an ordered pair. From then on it was a continuous function. They were both in their prime, so in next to no time they were horizontal and parallel. She was awed by the magnitude of his perpendicular line, and he was amazed by her conical projections. "Bisect my angle!" she postulated each time she reached her local maximum. He taught her the chain rule as she implicitly defined the amplitude of his simple harmonic motion. They underwent multiple rotations of their axes, until at last they reached the vertex, the critical point, their finite limit. After that they slept like logs. Later she found him taking a right-handed limit, that was a problem, because it was an improper form. He meanwhile had realized that she was irrational, not to mention square. She approached her ex, so they diverged.
Math problems? Call 1-800-[(10x)(13i)2]-[sin(xy)/2.362x].
A mathematician is flying non-stop from Edmonton to Frankfurt with AirTransat. The scheduled flying time is nine hours.
Some time after taking off, the pilot announces that one engine had to be turned off due to mechanical failure: "Don't worry - we're safe. The only noticeable effect this will have for us is that our total flying time will be ten hours instead of nine."
A few hours into the flight, the pilot informs the passengers that another engine had to be turned off due to mechanical failure: "But don't worry - we're still safe. Only our flying time will go up to twelve hours."
Some time later, a third engine fails and has to be turned off. But the pilot reassures the passengers: "Don't worry - even with one engine, we're still perfectly safe. It just means that it will take sixteen hours total for this plane to arrive in Frankfurt."
The mathematician remarks to his fellow passengers: "If the last engine breaks down, too, then we'll be in the air for twenty-four hours altogether!"
Trigonometry for farmers: swine and coswine...
