Jokes from the Audience
I gave a short talk about my favorite math jokes at G4G15. G4G stands for the Gathering for Gardner, my favorite conference. Here is a joke about Heisenberg from my talk.
* * *
Heisenberg gets pulled over on the highway.
Cop: “Do you know how fast you were going, sir?”
Heisenberg: “No, but I know exactly where I am.”
After my talk, David Albert sent me a sequel to this joke.
* * *
Heisenberg gets pulled over on the highway.
Cop: “Do you know how fast you were going, sir?”
Heisenberg: “No, but I know exactly where I am.”
Cop: “You were going 85 miles per hour”.
Heisenberg: “Oh great—now I’m lost!”
Here is another joke from the conference.
* * *
—Did you hear about the mathematician who’s afraid of negative numbers?
—He’ll stop at nothing to avoid them.
This joke, too, got an awesome sequel from Jesse Lauzon.
* * *
Did you hear about the mathematician who is afraid of negative numbers?
—He’ll stop at nothing to avoid them.
—Well, that’s only natural!
Here is the most recent addition to my collection from my friend, Alexander Karabegov.
* * *
A trigonometry professor lost his voice and had to use sine language.
Share:
Celebrating Spring with Playful Math Carnival 172 – Denise Gaskins' Let's Play Math:
[…] Khovanova collects math jokes and puzzles. Check out her recent additions: Jokes from the Audience and Two Lovely […]
30 April 2024, 9:56 amKorepetytor Matematyki:
In the late 1960s, Steinhaus received a phone call informing him that a delegation of Soviet scientists would arrive at the train station in Wrocław in an hour, and that he, as a professor, had to greet them. Steinhaus replied: Dear colleague, I am sound in mind, but weak in body. If it were the other way around, I would hurry immediately.
10 May 2024, 12:42 pmShawn Ligocki:
… unfortunately he often goes off on long tangents.
11 May 2024, 5:34 pm