Math Jokes and Math Fun

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Have a look at the following jokes or quotes on mathematicians:

"Relations between pure and applied mathematicians are based on trust and understanding. Namely, pure mathematicians do not trust applied mathematicians, and applied mathematicians do not understand pure mathematicians."

"Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity, I do not understand it myself any more." -- Albert Einstein

"Only professional mathematicians learn anything from proofs. Other people learn from explanations." -- Ralph Boas

"Old mathematicians never die; they just pass into another field."

"Old mathematicians never die, they just tend to infinity."

"Old mathematicians never die; they just lose some of their functions"

"An engineer thinks that his equations are an approximation to reality. A physicist thinks reality is an approximation to his equations. A mathematician doesn't care. "

"A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." -- Paul Erdos

"A topologist is a person who doesn't know the difference between a coffee cup and a doughnut."


Mathematics is ...

"Mathematics is made of 50 percent formulas, 50 percent proofs, and 50 percent imagination."

"Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things." -- J. H. Poincare

"Philosophy is a game with objectives and no rules. Mathematics is a game with rules and no objectives."

"Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper." -- David Hilbert

"Mathematics consists in proving the most obvious thing in the least obvious way." -- George Polya

Arithmetic is ...

Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time. ~Carl Sandburg

Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head. ~Carl Sandburg, "Arithmetic"

Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer. ~Carl Sandburg, "Arithmetic"

Algebra is ...

"Men are liars. We'll lie about lying if we have to. I'm an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive.". -- Tim Allen

"We may always depend on it that algebra which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra." -- William Kingdon Clifford

"I don't know why I should have to learn Algebra... I'm never likely to go there." -- Billy Connolly

"As long as algebra is taught in school, there will be prayer in school. " -- Cokie Roberts

Geometry is ...

"A circle is a round straight line with a hole in the middle."

"Geometry is just plane fun."

"The only angle from which to approach a problem is the TRY-Angle"

"The shortest distance between two points is under construction." -- Bill Sanderson

"Without geometry life is pointless."

"I heard that parallel lines actually do meet, but they are very discrete."

Calculus is ...

"Calculus has its limits."

"The whole apparatus of the calculus takes on an entirely different form when developed for the complex numbers." -- Keith Devlin

"The Mean Value Theorem is the midwife of calculus - not very important or glamorous by itself, but often helping to deliver other theorems that are of major significance." -- E. Purcell and D. Varberg

"God does not care about our mathematical difficulties - he integrates empirically" -- Albert Einstein

"But just as much as it is easy to find the differential [derivative] of a given quantity, so it is difficult to find the integral of a given differential. Moreover, sometimes we cannot say with certainty whether the integral of a given quantity can be found or not." -- Johann Bernoulli

"In the fall of 1972 President Nixon announced that the rate of increase of inflation was decreasing. This was the first time a sitting president used the third derivative to advance his case for reelection. -- Hugo Rossi"

Statistics is ...

"42.7% of all statistics are made up on the spot." -- Steven Wright

"Five out of four people have trouble with fractions." -- Steven Wright

"Statistics means never having to say you're certain."

"How many pizzas are consumed each year in the United States? How many words have you spoken in your life? How many different peoples names appear in the New York Times each year? How many watermelons would fit inside the U.S. Capitol building? What is the volume of all the human blood in the world? -- John A. Paulos

"A statistician can have his head in an oven and his feet in ice, and he will say that on the average he feels fine."