Random Jokes

A math student is pestered by a classmate who wants to copy his homework assignment. The student hesitates, not only because he thinks it’s wrong, but also because he doesn’t want to be sanctioned for aiding and abetting.
His classmate calms him down: “Nobody will be able to trace my homework to you: I’ll be changing the names of all the constants and variables: a to b, x to y, and so on.”
Not quite convinced, but eager to be left alone, the student hands his completed assignment to the classmate for copying.
After the deadline, the student asks: “Did you really change the names of all the variables?”
“Sure!” the classmate replies. “When you called a function f, I called it g; when you called a variable x, I renamed it to y; and when you were writing about the log of x+1, I called it the timber of x+1…”

A very large mathematical convention was held in Las Vegas. The conventioneers filled two hotels, each with an infinite number of rooms. The hotels were across the street from each other and were owned by brothers. One evening, while everyone was out at a bar-b-que, one of the hotels burned to the ground. The brothers got together and worked out a plan. In the remaining hotel, they moved all guests to twice their room number — room 101 moved to 202, room 1234 moved to room 2468, etc. Then all the odd number rooms were empty, and there were an infinite number of odd rooms. So the guests from the other hotel moved into them.

A team of engineers were required to measure the height of a flag pole. They only had a measuring tape, and were getting quite frustrated trying to keep the tape along the pole. It kept falling down, etc. A mathematician comes along, finds out their problem, and proceeds to remove the pole from the ground and measure it easily. When he leaves, one engineer says to the other: “Just like a mathematician! We need to know the height, and he gives us the length!”

A mathematician, an engineer and a physicist are all in a hotel. In the middle of the night, a fire breaks out on their floor. The fire spreads to each of their rooms.

The engineer wakes up and sees the fire. He rushes to the tub, repeatedly fills his ice tub with water and throws it everywhere until he manages to get the fire out in his room. Satisfied, he goes back to bed.

The physicist wakes up as well and sees the fire. He grabs a pad of paper, quickly scribbles out some equations, fills a cup with water and dumps it on just the right spot to put out the fire. Satisfied, he goes back to bed.

The mathematician wakes and sees the fire. He grabs a pad of paper, quickly scribbles out some equations and yells out “Aha! A solution exists.” Satisfied, he goes back to bed.