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After her husband's death, the elderly lady decided to go back to school and get a degree in
mathematics.
A few weeks into the term, she storms into the dean's office, exclaiming: "I've been silent until
now - but I'm not going to take these obscenities anymore!"
"What obscenities are you talking about?"
She reaches into her purse and pulls out a notebook. "I noted of all of them. In my presence,
professors had the complete lack of decency to speak of" - she leafs through her notebook -
"Bruhat-Tits spaces, a pumping lemma, and even degenerate colonels!"
A mathematician and his best friend, an engineer, attend a public lecture on
geometry in thirteen-dimensional space.
"How did you like it?" the mathematician wants to know after the talk.
"My head's spinning", the engineer confesses. "How can you develop any intuition
for thirteen-dimensional space?"
"Well, it's not even difficult. All I do is visualize the situation in arbitrary N-
dimensional space and then set N = 13."
"Imagine! He was restless during the days and couldn't sleep at night - always
trying to solve his math problems. When he had finally done it, he wasn't happy: he
would call himself a complete idiot and throw all his notes into the garbage. One
day, I couldn't take it anymore, and I told him to drop math. You know what he told
me?"
"No."
"He said, he enjoyed it!!!"
Math Prayer
Number Poem
Isometries
You can slide them sideways
Or move them up and down.
You can flip them over
Or turn them round and round!
Chorus:
I - sometries, I - sometries,
Rigid transformations -
Reflect, rotate, translations -
Any way you please!