"When he comes back, I'm going to call you over, and ask you a question, to which you are to answer: one third x cubed." "I'd like you to help settle a wager between me and my colleague," he said. This appears to be a custom in certain chain diners.) (He knew that was her name because it was written on a badge pinned to her uniform. "Not sure whether to take you up on your bet or not, but I reckon you'd be wrong."Īrthur slipped off to the mens' room at that point, and while he was gone, George called over the waitress Jody. "I bet you a hundred bucks," said Arthur, "that if you were to ask a random college student a basic question in calculus, he wouldn't understand the question, let alone furnish you with an answer." George, on the other hand, was confident that any student would at least know the basics of calculus. Arthur was convinced they were slipping badly, and that your average college student was completely mathematically illiterate. Two captains of industry, Arthur and George, were in a restaurant discussing the state of educational standards, particularly in the field of mathematics. 63.23 Proof by Assuming the Necessary AssumptionsĠ.999.=1 Q: How many mathematicians does it take to change a lightbulb? A: $0.999999 \ldots$īanach-Tarski Paradox Q: Give me an anagram of Banach-Tarski.63.21 Proof by Publishing in Your Own Journal.63.20 Proof by Inter-Universal Teichmuller Theory.63.8 Proof by Generalization in the Obvious Way.63.7 Proof by Reduction to Wrong Problem.40.3 The perpetrator of this joke should be charged.38 Physicist Mathematician and Engineer Jokes.
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