Vectors and (the) force
Math and Star Wars… Thanks to LanceAF for this submission! Source: http://www.mathplane.com/gate_dwebcomics/math_comics_archive_winter_2013
Jokes
Prove these five points are colinear
The above (and below) comic was created by Chao Xu (许超), he’s not just Asian but RadiAsian! Check out his blog (mgccl.com) for more fun stuff.
Spiked Math’s excuse guide to not doing your math homework
(Comic version here) 1. Wolfram Alpha was down last night. 2. I got stuck in an infinite loop while using L’Hôpital’s rule. 3. I was computing the kernel of a matrix and got hungry for popcorn and ended up watching a movie instead. 4. I have a note from my doctor which proves I have …
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Prime Numbers
Several scientists were asked to prove that all odd integers higher than 2 are prime. *Mathematician: 3 is a prime, 5 is a prime, 7 is a prime, and by induction – every odd integer higher than 2 is a prime. *Physicist: 3 is a prime, 5 is a prime, 7 is a prime, 9 …
Silly math test
Test your mathematics by answering the following questions (no peaking below): 1. Noah built it. 2. An expression that represents the loss of a parrot. 3. An appropriate title for Koll the knight. 4. A sunburned man. 5. What we do when it rains. 6. What you call someone who wrote for an Inn. 7. …
Top 7 excuses for not doing your math homework!
I had a constant amount of homework. I tried to derive its purpose, but I got nothing. I could only get arbitrarily close to my textbook, but I could never reach it. I am sure that I put it inside my Klein Bottle last night, but this morning I could not find it. I locked …
The difference between engineers, physicists, and mathematicians
An engineer thinks that his equations are an approximation to reality. A physicist thinks reality is an approximation to his equations. A mathematician doesn’t care.
Happy face math – CHEAT SHEET
You might have seen this before, it seems to have made its way around the internet. It’s called Charlie Smith’s Happy Face Math: Cheat Sheet: First Column: 1st one is the inverse (ie, upside down) 2nd one is being squared (hence the square) 3rd one is being cubed (hence the cube) 4th one is …
Quick math joke
Saw this joke on the xkcd forums today posed by Pippin: Two of my friends in math class today: “Dude, our slope is so undefined!” “Straight up, bro.” Spoiler hint: What is the slope of a horizontal straight line? Another one from that forum: Why don’t jokes work in base 8? Because 7 10 11.