Wild About Math! Making Math fun and accessible

1. 

   Raymond Chua
   February 11th, 2008 - 01:09

   Thanks for sahring the funny pictures.

   I love them all. (Just don’t understand the last one)
2. 

   Sol
   February 11th, 2008 - 07:48

   Raymond,

   I’m glad you enjoyed the jokes.

   What’s funny to me about the last joke is that astrophysics is considered to be such a difficult subject that a blackboard full of unintelligible writing is considered to be “simple”. What would this blackboard look like if it were not simple!?
3. 

   Denise
   February 11th, 2008 - 11:32

   Great fun! Thanks for bringing a smile to a stressed-out day.
4. 

   Alex Kay
   February 11th, 2008 - 13:27

   These are great Sol!
5. 

   Sol
   February 12th, 2008 - 11:05

   @Denise and Alex: I’m glad you enjoyed them. The first one on deferential equations really cracked me up!
6. 

   Rich
   February 12th, 2008 - 15:02

   Tthe second one does not make sense. Shouldn’t the bottom 83 degree and 97 degrees be switched or am I just forgetting my basic applied algebra (highly probable).
7. 

   nigr
   February 12th, 2008 - 16:25

   rich, what are u on about?? i only hope u have made a mistake in thinking the rod is parallel to the pond and hence z angles apply. otherwise 97 is clearly greater than 83. sorry
8. 

   Moi
   February 12th, 2008 - 20:54

   He’s thinking the rod/line is running perpendicular to the pond, not parallel. That’s your mistake, nigr.
9. 

   j
   February 13th, 2008 - 07:01

   the last one- if the blackboard showed more complex explanations of astrophysics, there would probably be a lot of Riemannian geometry, expanded calculations using maxwell’s equations, and general relativity. There are huge books on each of those subjects. Now, if he was also working toward a unified theory of physics, he’s need another blackboard.
10. 

    Peter
    February 13th, 2008 - 16:09

    Cant read the 3rd one.
11. 

    EE Phillips
    February 13th, 2008 - 22:24

    Thanks for a laugh.
    I think nigr realized what rich was seeing. Rich must have remembered that alternate (z)angles are equal when parallel lines are intersected by another line. If the line were perpendicular to the surface Rich would have thought both angles should be 90.
    ANYWAY, those were pretty funny.
12. 

    Dizzley
    February 17th, 2008 - 02:42

    I like the Stats one – in the right accent: “a notorious outlier”.

    I guess the town likes to consider itself “normal”.
13. 

    GFYM
    February 19th, 2008 - 12:20

    The last one is called irony.

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