Q: Why did the chicken cross the Moebius strip?
A: To get to the other ... er, um ..
(For those confused by this then have a look at one here. You can easily build one with a piece of paper by cutting a long rectangluar strip from the paper, giving it a half-twist, and glueing the ends together.)
(and now look at Escher's amazing Wood engraving in three colours)
"A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems" -- P. Erdos
A limerick:
((12 + 144 + 20 + (3 * 4^(1/2))) / 7) + (5 * 11) = 9^2 + 0
To be read as follows:
A Dozen, a Gross and a Score,
plus three times the square root of four,
divided by seven,
plus five times eleven,
equals nine squared and not a bit more.
( read more here , though be warned, you need to know a lot of maths to understand them all!)
'Tis a favorite project of mine
A new value of pi to assign.
I would fix it at 3
For it's simpler, you see,
Than 3 point 1 4 1 5 9.
( you could become very knowledgable about Pi by clicking here).
Theorem: a cat has nine tails.
Proof:
No cat has eight tails. A cat has one tail more than no cat. Therefore, a cat has nine tails.
(If you believe this proof then possibly you need some Remedial help!)
My geometry teacher was sometimes acute, and sometimes obtuse, but always, he was right.
( If this is confusing then consult Euclid's Elements, BookI, Definitions 11 and 12 )
Old mathematicians never die; they just lose some of their functions.
( Need some help with this? Cick here)
There are three kinds of people in the world; those who can count and those who can't.
There are two groups of people in the world; those who believe that the world can be divided into
two groups of people, and those who don't.
The world is divided into two classes: people who say "The world is divided into two classes", and
people who say The world is divided into two classes: people who say: "The world is divided into
two classes", and people who say: The world is divided into two classes: people who say ...
Top eight excuses for not doing homework:
I accidentally divided by zero and my paper burst into flames.
Isaac Newton's birthday.
I have the proof, but there isn't room to write it in this margin.
I was watching the World Series and got tied up trying to prove that it converged.
I have a solar powered calculator and it was cloudy.
I locked the paper in my trunk but a four-dimensional dog got in and ate it.
I couldn't figure out whether i am the square of negative one or i is the square root of negative one.
I could have sworn I put the homework inside a Klein bottle, but this morning I couldn't find it. (more here on Klein bottles, and, do we live in a Klein bottle?)