A little humor for all of you who are grading or taking exams… [From failblog.org] [via Superpoop]
Category: Humor
Fallacies, Flaws, and Flimflam it’s been good to know ya
At the end of 2008 the College Mathematics Journal will stop running its 20-year column “Fallacies, Flaws, and Flimflam.” The column was devoted to “mistakes, fallacies, howlers, anomalies, and the like”—usually found on student work. In honor of the departure of this entertaining column I submit the following FFF which was submitted as a solution…
Secrets of my success
Here are the five things I need to be a productive mathematician. 1. Time to think 2. Time to think 3. LATEX (I find most of my errors while typing my work) 4. Someone to talk to (it is great having a collaborator) 5. Coffee (I have no memory of not liking the taste of…
Phone number fail
Our college has an (expensive) automated alert system. If there is an emergency on campus, then this system will broadcast news and warnings to all members of the campus community via telephone, cell phone, text messaging, email, etc. (I don’t think they’re set up for Twitter yet.) They sent one of these alerts today because…
Graph theory is funny
I read and laugh at Jessica Hagy’s Indexed every day. Today Jessica created the following index card titled 7 wonders of the modern world which is based on , the complete graph on 7 vertices. She has created similar index cards before, such as… : For my MBA friends (apologies to Mr. Porter) : Yes,…
David Richeson: Division by Zero 