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Forum: Math Humor
Welcome to the Math Humor forum!
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funny mistake in a PM message by mathforever on 2005-08-15 11:27:51
In the entry "convex function" it was posted a question:

> Is a convex function guaranteed to be continuous?

And the reply to it was:

> a convex function on an interval (a,b) is always convex

We start to have our own jokes ;)

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knowledge can become a science
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My beginning (with a very bad joke) by nickexpensive on 2005-05-22 20:25:28
A virgin woman is commonly denoted by mathematicians as "simply connected woman".
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A Math-Love song: Finite Simple Group by alozano on 2005-05-09 13:25:45
This is probably the funniest math-song ever written (by the Klein Four Group):

http://www.collegehumor.com/?movie_id=149448

The full lyrics can be found here:

http://www.math.northwestern.edu/~matt/kleinfour/lyrics/finite.html

and here there are more songs:

http://www.math.northwestern.edu/~matt/kleinfour/

Alvaro
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New classification of numbers: integers and "weird" by alozano on 2005-05-06 13:54:33
I have noticed that the students in my calculus classes use some terminology I was not aware of. They classify the numbers into two disjoint subsets: integers and "weird" numbers.

Everytime a student tries a problem and the answer they obtain is not an integer, they come to me and they say: "I am getting a 'weird number'. Thus, I must be doing something wrong!"

:D

Alvaro
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do you drive with bicycle? by mathforever on 2005-04-29 16:19:54
Question: Why pure mathematicians drive to work with a bicycle, while their colleagues, applied mathematicians, use autos?

Answer: Because pure mathematicians prefer not to use things they don't understand.

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