Comments on: Bad math humor http://blog.drscottfranklin.net/2006/09/18/bad-math-humor/ Ramblings of a Christian Mathematician and Bioinformaticist Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:14:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Just another liberal professor http://blog.drscottfranklin.net/2006/09/18/bad-math-humor/comment-page-1/#comment-350 Just another liberal professor Wed, 20 Sep 2006 15:33:32 +0000 http://blog.drscottfranklin.net/2006/09/18/bad-math-humor/#comment-350 Q: What is yellow and equivalent to the axiom of choice? A: Zorn's lemon. (Also acceptable: Corn's lemma). Q: What is purple, commutes, and has a finite number of worshipers? A: A finitely venerated abelian grape. In an Old West town, there were some functions sitting around in the saloon, drinking to their heart's content. The functions were good folk, mainly polynomials and rational functions and the like. Suddenly, an out of breath constant bursts into the saloon and says, in between gasps, "A differential operator is coming to town!" Now, the functions didn't like that all too much...especially the polynomials, and doubly so for the constants! Before a full-blown panic erupted, e^x brought his head up from his drink and said "Don't you folks worry, I got it taken care of." The other functions were more relieved, but some of them still hid, and those that didn't went up to the balcany to look in on the action. Well, good ol' e^x didn't have to wait long. Soon, footsteps approached the saloon. And then, in walked d/dy... Q: What is yellow and equivalent to the axiom of choice?

A: Zorn’s lemon.

(Also acceptable: Corn’s lemma).

Q: What is purple, commutes, and has a finite number of worshipers?

A: A finitely venerated abelian grape.

In an Old West town, there were some functions sitting around in the saloon, drinking to their heart’s content. The functions were good folk, mainly polynomials and rational functions and the like.

Suddenly, an out of breath constant bursts into the saloon and says, in between gasps, “A differential operator is coming to town!”

Now, the functions didn’t like that all too much…especially the polynomials, and doubly so for the constants! Before a full-blown panic erupted, e^x brought his head up from his drink and said “Don’t you folks worry, I got it taken care of.” The other functions were more relieved, but some of them still hid, and those that didn’t went up to the balcany to look in on the action.

Well, good ol’ e^x didn’t have to wait long. Soon, footsteps approached the saloon.

And then, in walked d/dy…

]]> By: SplineGuy http://blog.drscottfranklin.net/2006/09/18/bad-math-humor/comment-page-1/#comment-349 SplineGuy Wed, 20 Sep 2006 04:45:42 +0000 http://blog.drscottfranklin.net/2006/09/18/bad-math-humor/#comment-349 Was it out of pity? Was it out of pity?

]]> By: Mom http://blog.drscottfranklin.net/2006/09/18/bad-math-humor/comment-page-1/#comment-348 Mom Tue, 19 Sep 2006 21:41:51 +0000 http://blog.drscottfranklin.net/2006/09/18/bad-math-humor/#comment-348 I giggled, but don't know for sure why..... I giggled, but don’t know for sure why…..

]]> By: SplineGuy http://blog.drscottfranklin.net/2006/09/18/bad-math-humor/comment-page-1/#comment-347 SplineGuy Tue, 19 Sep 2006 15:27:15 +0000 http://blog.drscottfranklin.net/2006/09/18/bad-math-humor/#comment-347 Oh come on, let your inner mathematician out! Oh come on, let your inner mathematician out!

]]> By: spookyrach http://blog.drscottfranklin.net/2006/09/18/bad-math-humor/comment-page-1/#comment-346 spookyrach Tue, 19 Sep 2006 13:49:06 +0000 http://blog.drscottfranklin.net/2006/09/18/bad-math-humor/#comment-346 Har de har. har. (I did laugh. Just don't want to admit it.) Har de har. har.

(I did laugh. Just don’t want to admit it.)

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