Stanford Humor

[kerr_avon]

Jokes for Alphas.

http://www.stanford.edu/~lekheng/humor.html

Comments

[snowgrouse]

Very, very Avonic, I find:). Yes. Thanks for the link!

[entropy_house]

*grin* It's the first time I'd seen topology jokes. :^)

[vila_restal]

[OOC] Eep. They're describing a few mathematics professors I knew at uni. I think my maths lecturers just won over the chemistry and physics people (though one chem professor used to sit and rock and hum whether or not you were talking to him). One of the mathematicians, world famous among mathematicians for his brilliance, was known by us as Madman Butcher (Butcher was his surname) but despite his genius was replaced with a less talented person in lectures because he just couldn't focus on teaching what was to him simple stuff and kept digressing or going into a dream world.

Here is a piece of very valuable advice to any young mathematics lecturer starting his career: if you find you are getting more laughs than usual with partial differential equations, just make sure that your trousers are properly zipped up.We had one guy who was just like that, He wore white gloves because he couldn't bear the feel of chalk, and trousers that didn't quite reach his shoes. His lectures were unintentional fun. I still remember the day he made

[kerr_avon]

Q: How can you tell that a mathematician is extroverted?
A: When talking to you, he looks at your shoes instead of at his.
Totally my favourite.

Mine as well, some of the instructors at Bellhangria oughtn't to be let out without a guide-bot.

[linda_joyce]

LOL so far my favourite is Al-gebra. Thanks for the post.

[kerr_avon]

It was too good not to share.