How they prove that all odd integers higher than 2 are prime?
Mathematician: 3 is a prime, 5 is a prime, 7 is a prime, and by induction - every odd integer higher
than 2 is a prime.
Physicist: 3 is a prime, 5 is a prime, 7 is a prime, 9 is an experimental error,
11 is a prime,...
Engineer: 3 is a prime, 5 is a prime, 7 is a prime, 9 is a prime, 11 is a prime,...
Programmer: 3 is a prime, 5 is a prime, 7 is a prime, 7 is a prime, 7 is a prime,...
Salesperson:
3 is a prime, 5 is a prime, 7 is a prime, 9 -- we'll do for you the best we can,...
Computer Software
Salesperson: 3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 will be prime in the next release,...
Biologist:
3 is a prime, 5 is a prime, 7 is a prime, 9 -- results have not arrived yet,...
Advertiser: 3 is
a prime, 5 is a prime, 7 is a prime, 11 is a prime,...
Lawyer: 3 is a prime, 5 is a prime, 7 is
a prime, 9 -- there is not enough evidence to prove that it is not a prime,...
Accountant: 3 is
prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 is prime, deducing 10% tax and 5% other obligations.
Statistician:
Let's try several randomly chosen numbers: 17 is a prime, 23 is a prime, 11 is a prime...
Professor:
3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, and the rest are left as an exercise for the student.
Computational
linguist: 3 is an odd prime, 5 is an odd prime, 7 is an odd prime, 9 is a very odd prime,...
Psychologist:
3 is a prime, 5 is a prime, 7 is a prime, 9 is a prime but tries to suppress it,...
There are three kinds of mathematicians:
those who can count and those who can't.
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 two groups of people in the world:
Those who can be categorized into one of two
groups of people, and those
who can't.
The Flood is over and the ark has landed. Noah lets all the animals out and says, "Go forth and multiply."
A few months later, Noah decides to take a stroll and see how the animals are doing. Everywhere he looks he finds baby
animals. Everyone is doing fine except for one pair of little snakes. "What's the problem?" says Noah.
"Cut down some
trees and let us live there", say the snakes.
Noah follows their advice. Several more weeks pass. Noah checks on the snakes again. Lots of little snakes, everybody is
happy. Noah asks, "Want to tell me how the trees helped?"
"Certainly", say the snakes. "We're adders, so we need logs to multiply."
What is the integral of "one over cabin" with respect to "cabin"?
Answer: Natural log cabin + c = houseboat.
A bunch of Polish scientists decided to flee their repressive government by hijacking an airliner and forcing the pilot
to fly them to a western country. They drove to the airport, forced their way on board a large passenger jet, and found there
was no pilot on board. Terrified, they listened as the sirens got louder. Finally, one of the scientists suggested that since
he was an experimentalist, he would try to fly the aircraft.
He sat down at the controls and tried to figure them out. The sirens got louder and louder. Armed men surrounded the jet.
The would be pilot's friends cried out, "Please, please take off now!!! Hurry!!!"
The experimentalist calmly replied, "Have patience. I'm just a simple pole in a complex plane."
What is "pi"?
Mathematician: Pi is the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter.
Engineer:
Pi is about 22/7.
Physicist: Pi is 3.14159 plus or minus 0.000005
Computer
Programmer: Pi is 3.141592653589 in double precision.
Nutritionist: You one track math-minded
fellows, Pie is a healthy and delicious dessert!
Top ln(e^10) reasons why e is better than pi
10) e is easier to spell than pi.
9) pi ~= 3.14 while e ~=2.718281828459045.
8) The character for e can be found on a keyboard, but pi sure can't.
7) Everybody
fights for their piece of the pie.
6) ln(pi^1) is a really nasty number, but ln(e^1) = 1.
5) e is used in calculus while pi is used in baby geometry.
4) 'e' is the most
commonly picked vowel in Wheel of Fortune.
3) e stands for Euler's Number, pi doesn't stand for
squat.
2) You don't need to know Greek to be able to use e.
1) You can't
confuse e with a food product.
Top ten reasons why e is inferior to pi
10) e is less challenging to spell than pi.
9) e ~=2.718281828459045,
which can be easily memorized to its billionth place, whereas pi needs "skills" to be memorized.
8)
The character for e is so cheap that it can be found on a keyboard. But is special (it's under "special symbols" in word processor programs.)
7) Pi is the bigger piece
of pie.
6) e has an easy limit definition and infinite series. The limit definition of pi and the
infinite series are much harder.
5) e you understand what it is even though you start learning it
late when you're in pre-calculus. But pi, even after five or six years it's still hard to know what it really is.
4) People mistakenly confuse Euler's Number (e) with Euler's Constant (gamma). There is no confusion with
the one and only .
3) e is named after a person, but pi stands for itself.
2) Pi is much
shorter and easier to say than "Euler's Number".
1) To read pi, you don't have to know that Euler's
name is really pronounced Oiler.
A mathematician went insane and believed that he was the differentiation operator. His friends had him placed in a mental
hospital until he got better. All day he would go around frightening the other patients by staring at them and saying "I differentiate
you!"
One day he met a new patient; and true to form he stared at him and said "I differentiate you!", but for once, his victim's
expression didn't change. Surprised, the mathematician marshalled his energies, stared fiercely at the new patient and said
loudly "I differentiate you!", but still the other man had no reaction. Finally, in frustration, the mathematician screamed
out "I DIFFERENTIATE YOU!"
The new patient calmly looked up and said, "You can differentiate me all you like: I'm e to
the x."
The functions are sitting in a bar, chatting (how fast they go to zero at infinity etc.). Suddenly, one cries "Beware!
Derivation is coming!" All immediately hide themselves under the tables, only the exponential sits calmly on the chair.
The
derivation comes in, sees a function and says "Hey, you don't fear me?"
"No, I'am e to x", says the exponential self-confidently.
"Well"
replies the derivation "but who says I differentiate along x?"
What is the shortest mathematicians joke?
Let epsilon be smaller than zero.
Why mathematicians are afraid drive a car?
Because the width of the road is negligible comparing to its length.
An astronomer, a physicist and a mathematician (it is said) were holidaying in Scotland. Glancing from a train window,
they observed a black sheep in the middle of a field.
"How interesting," observed the astronomer, "all scottish sheep are black!"
To which the physicist responded, "No, no! Some Scottish sheep are black!"
The mathematician gazed heavenward in supplication, and then intoned, "In Scotland there exists at least one field, containing
at least one sheep, at least one side of which is black."