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Forum: Math Humor
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football by mathforever on 2005-04-16 12:34:14
A man was reading in a newspaper that young and perspective football player has received 12 million dollars contract from some football team. So, he went to his son, who was sitting at the table surrounded by a dozen of textbooks trying to solve his current math assignment, hit his back of the head and said:

- Instead of being at home all the time you'd better go out and kick a ball!

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knowledge can become a science
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Sierpinski's attitudes for corrections by rspuzio on 2005-03-27 00:49:35
Sierpinski's student Rotkiewicz wrote of his master:

 He did not like any corrections to his papers. When someone suggested
 a correction he added a line to it: 'Mr X remarked that ...' He was a
 creative mind and liked creative mathematics. He was the greatest and
 most productive of Polish mathematicians.

I thought this might be some comfort when somebody here sees the correction box light up and finds the contents annoying. If this is you, you are definitely in good company!

Also, this gives an interesting strategy for dealing with certain kinds of corrections. Of course, if someone objects to this procedure, just add a note: "Mr. Y objects to my crediting Mr. X for his insightful remark.", etc. ;)
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pizza by mathforever on 2005-03-19 10:29:10
In a pizzeria the waiter is asking a visitor:
- On how much pieces you would like the pizza to be cut: on 6 or 12?
- On 6. 12 is too much for me,- answers visitor.

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  • Re: pizza by Grayum on 2005-05-27 05:04:01
    • Re: pizza by mathforever on 2005-11-26 08:30:04
research as an industry by mathforever on 2005-03-04 09:16:18
Have found accidentally on the Web, thought you might like it ;)
http://lsirpeople.epfl.ch/wu/researchindustry.html

Regards
Serg.
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One cat has nine tails.. by matte on 2005-03-02 16:58:46
No cat has eigth tails, and one cat has one tail
more than no cat. Thus one cat has nine tails.
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