You're too much of a mathematician if

[Edgardo]

You're too much a mathematician if ...

Hi all,

I thought it would be funny to open a thread like this.
So feel free to post!


You're too much of a mathematician if ...

... if you think that "epsilon < 0" is funny.

 

[neutrino]

IF you think? It is funny.

 

[Oblef]

omg I didn't understand it, thank God..!

 

[Moridin]

...if you think that the x-component of the vector formed by your instructors mustache is at its largest value at \cos \theta = 1

 

[Jimmy Snyder]

... if you think the reason the downtown area is called the center is because everyone commutes there.

 

[Thrice]

.. you can (finally) tell a doughnut from a coffee mug.

 

[neutrino]

.. you can (finally) tell a doughnut from a coffee mug.

Wouldn't you be a normal person if you can do that?

 

[rocomath]

omg I didn't understand it, thank God..!

lol, i didn't understand the first one either

but the others are pretty funny so far

 

[Gokul43201]

Wouldn't you be a normal person if you can do that?

The "finally" is important.

...if you deny that there can be such a thing as "too much of a mathematician"... and subsequently disappear in a puff of logic.

 

[morphism]

Maybe it should've been:

...if you can't tell a doughnut from a coffee mug.

 

[TeTeC]

...if you use the word "trivial" or "evident" more than once a day

 

[Lisa!]

...if you think .999999999=1

<runs and hides>

 

[neutrino]

...if you think .999999999=1

<runs and hides>

You see, now that would be an engineer/physicist.

I presume you meant 0.9999999... = 1.

 

[Lisa!]

You see, now that would be an engineer/physicist.

I presume you meant 0.9999999... = 1.

Oops...no , now that's a real mathematician considring this 1:

You are a mathematician if you say 'A', write 'B' but mean 'C'

 

[qspeechc]

If you begin a day to day argument: " For all x such that..."

 

[ice109]

Oops...no , now that's a real mathematician considring this 1:

You are a mathematician if you say 'A', write 'B' but mean 'C'

that one is good

 

[morphism]

...if you use the word "trivial" or "evident" more than once a day

I would add "there exists" to that list!

My favorite one so far is jimmysnyder's.

 

[ZioX]

Oops...no , now that's a real mathematician considring this 1:

You are a mathematician if you say 'A', write 'B' but mean 'C'

The professors dilemma: He says 'A', he writes 'B', he means 'C', but it should really be 'D'.

Comes from Polya's How to Solve It

 

[Hurkyl]

...if you use the word "trivial" or "evident" more than once a day

I can't remember it off hand, but there is at least one mathematical term that I use in everyday conversation, because there isn't an 'ordinary' English word that carries precisely the meaning I intend.

 

[Lisa!]

The professors dilemma: He says 'A', he writes 'B', he means 'C', but it should really be 'D'.

Comes from Polya's How to Solve It

Thanks!

I can't remember it off hand, but there is at least one mathematical term that I use in everyday conversation, because there isn't an 'ordinary' English word that carries precisely the meaning I intend.

Great! You're a real mathematician

 

[mathwonk]

libelous contumely! all of it. and i can prove it.

 

[DeadWolfe]

When you and your friends sit around trying to think about whether there are any foods whose boundary is a surface of genus two.

 

[cristo]

I can't remember it off hand, but there is at least one mathematical term that I use in everyday conversation, because there isn't an 'ordinary' English word that carries precisely the meaning I intend.

I use the word "clearly" quite often-- a word I rarely used before studying maths!

 

[mbrmbrg]

If you begin a day to day argument: " For all x such that..."

no! save me! It's not just in arguments either; non-mathematical language is just so clunky when one is trying to be precise. I mean, what's the english equivalent of (A+B+C)-(A+B)=(A+C)-(A)=C? The only thing I could come up with was "B cancels"

 

[theCandyman]

When you begin to define everyone you know in terms of matrices representing their characteristics.

 

[Edgardo]

... if the following happens:

At the question period after a Dirac lecture at the University of Toronto, somebody in the audience remarked: "Professor Dirac, I do not understand how you derived the formula on the top left side of the blackboard."
"This is not a question," snapped Dirac, "it is a statement. Next question, please."

 

[BobG]

... if the following happens:

At the question period after a Dirac lecture at the University of Toronto, somebody in the audience remarked: "Professor Dirac, I do not understand how you derived the formula on the top left side of the blackboard."
"This is not a question," snapped Dirac, "it is a statement. Next question, please."

Alex Trebek is too much of a mathematician?

 

[Edgardo]

Alex Trebek is too much of a mathematician?

Yes, he is

 

[Edgardo]

...if you can laugh about all of these math jokes.

 

[qspeechc]

I can't remember it off hand, but there is at least one mathematical term that I use in everyday conversation, because there isn't an 'ordinary' English word that carries precisely the meaning I intend.

I find I use "if and only if"