# You're too much of a mathematician if

1. Sep 2, 2007

### 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.

Last edited: Sep 2, 2007
2. Sep 2, 2007

### neutrino

IF you think? It is funny.

3. Sep 2, 2007

### Oblef

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

4. Sep 2, 2007

### Moridin

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

5. Sep 2, 2007

### Jimmy Snyder

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

6. Sep 2, 2007

### Thrice

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

7. Sep 2, 2007

### neutrino

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

8. Sep 2, 2007

### rocomath

lol, i didn't understand the first one either

but the others are pretty funny so far

9. Sep 2, 2007

### Gokul43201

Staff Emeritus
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.

10. Sep 2, 2007

### morphism

Maybe it should've been:

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

11. Sep 2, 2007

### TeTeC

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

12. Sep 2, 2007

### Lisa!

...if you think .999999999=1:tongue2:

<runs and hides>

13. Sep 2, 2007

### neutrino

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

I presume you meant 0.9999999... = 1.

14. Sep 2, 2007

### Lisa!

Oops...no , now thats a real mathematician considring this 1:

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

15. Sep 2, 2007

### qspeechc

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

16. Sep 2, 2007

### ice109

that one is good

17. Sep 2, 2007

### morphism

I would add "there exists" to that list!

My favorite one so far is jimmysnyder's.

18. Sep 2, 2007

### ZioX

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

19. Sep 2, 2007

### Hurkyl

Staff Emeritus
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.

20. Sep 3, 2007

### Lisa!

:rofl:
Thanks!

Great! You're a real mathematician

Last edited: Sep 3, 2007