I will start my collection of math humor with Abbott and Costello. For Abbott and Costello loved to perform funny mathematical routines. Some they performed in different settings. I once heard that they had a mathematician among their writers. Many of their mathematical skits are quite famous. I think that their most famous routine, “Who’s On First'” is funny because of its mathematical point of view (I will explain it in that post.)
Can you figure out why these skits are so funny? What is wrong with the math and how to fix it?
This blog is dedicated to promoting math knowledge and understanding. We present situations, anecdotes, jokes, photos, videos and anything else that will make you smile, laugh, think and enjoy things mathematical. Someone famous in mathematical circles (who we shall not name) said that you, an ordinary non-mathematician person, cannot enjoy math the way a non-musician can and does enjoy music. We are here to prove him wrong.
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Titles I Like
Listed below are some of my favorite math books, articles and other publications.
Math and Engineering
- How Round Is Your Circle? Where Engineering and Mathematics Meet [Princeton Press, 2008]
Favorite Clips
Danica McKellar = math + acting (See post 10/27/07)
by Eli Maor
- ⇒ The Pythagorean Theorem: A 4,000-Year History
- ⇒ e: The Story of a Number
- ⇒ Trigonometric Delights
- ⇒ To Infinity and Beyond
- ⇒ Venus in Transit
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About Me
- Uri
- Collecting logical paradoxes especially self-referential ones were always my hobby.
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