## 1. MATHEMATICS

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- 1. mathematics - general
- 1.1 proofs
- 1.2 statistics and statisticians
- 1.3 mathematicians
- 1.4 mathematics poetry
- 1.5 mathematics quotes
- 1.6 mathematic puns
- 1.7 mathematical terms
- 1.8 mathematical exams
- 1.9 learning mathematics
- 1.10 mathematical tests to take
- 1.11 mathematical equations
- 1.12 topology
- 1.13 numbers
- 1.14 set theory
- 1.15 functions

### 1.13 NUMBERS

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    From: Eike Michaelis (E.Michaelis@gmx.de)

    When a mathematician writes a Fantasy book, wil the page numbers be
    imaginary numbers?

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    From: a94petbe@ida.his.se (Peter Bengtsson)

    In modern mathematics, algebra has become so important that
    numbers will soon only have symbolic meaning.

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    From: chrisman@ucdmath.ucdavis.edu (Mark Chrisman)

Most prime numbers are even.
Proof: pick up any math text and look for a prime number. The first one you find will probably be even.

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The dumbos^H^H^H^H^H^Hpeople at my lab heard above joke and told me 1 was the first prime. So we went to check. In the van Dale dictionary (the Dutch version of Websters) we found: "A prime number is a number that is only divisible by itself." Apparently we only have one prime number in the Netherlands....

It must be intentional; an older version had the usual definition.

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    Special Category: Definitions and terms

Once upon a time, when I was training to be a mathematician, a group of us bright young students taking number theory discovered the names of the smaller prime numbers.

    2:  The Odd Prime --
            It's the only even prime, therefore is odd.  QED.
    3:  The True Prime --
            Lewis Carroll: "If I tell you three times, it's true."
    31: The Arbitrary Prime --
            Determined by unanimous unvote.  We needed an arbitrary prime
            in case the prof asked for one, and so had an election.  91
            received the most votes (well, it *looks* prime) and 3+4i the
            next most.  However, 31 was the only candidate to receive none
            at all.

Since the composite numbers are formed from primes, their qualities are derived from those primes. So, for instance, the number 6 is "odd but true", while the powers of 2 are all extremely odd numbers. From: David J Corbett <djc123@student.canterbury.ac.nz> actually, 3+4i isn't prime either... (1-2i)*(-1+2i)=(3+4i)

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    From: "James Glenn Davanna" <PHYJGD@phyfsa.phy.hw.ac.uk>

    All the numbers went to a party and numbers being what they are, all
    the evens stayed around each other and all the odds did the same and
    neither group interacted with eachother. Whilst two was chatting to
    four he noticed zero was on his own in the corner and suggested to
    four that because zero is sort of even he should be encouraged to mix
    with even numbers - four agreed. So off went two to invite zero into
    their little group. "Would you like to join our little group" enquired
    two, to which zero replied "I have nothing to add!"

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    From: John Blasik
    It was mentioned on CNN that the new prime number discovered recently is
    four times bigger than the previous record."

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    From: Michael Wolf
    You know what seems odd to me? Numbers that aren't divisible by two."

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    From: Wayne Watson <mtnviews@earthlink.net>
    A George Carlin joke

    The Nobel Prize in mathematics was awarded yesterday to a California
    professor who has discovered a new number. The number is "bleen", which he
    says belongs between six and seven.

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    From: Alan Craig <Alan.Craig@durham.ac.uk>

Mathematicians have announced the existence of a new whole number which lies between 27 and 28. "We don't know why it's there or what it does," says Cambridge mathematician, Dr. Hilliard Haliard, "we only know that it doesn't behave properly when put into equations, and that it is divisible by six, though only once."

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    From: chrisman@ucdmath.ucdavis.edu (Mark Chrisman)

"The number you have dialed is imaginary.
Please rotate your phone 90 degrees and try again."

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Numb, adj., devoid of sensation...

Number, comparative of numb.

[Webster's Third New international Dictionary]

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    From: feldco@aol.com (Zevra and his little green guy)

    Special Category: Top Reasons
                      Top ten reasons why e is inferior to pi

    10) e is less challenging to spell than pi.
    9) e ~=2.718281828459045, which can be easily memorized to its billionth place,
    whereas pi needs "skills" to be memorized.
    8) The character for e is so cheap that it can be found on a keyboard. But pi is
    special (it's under "special symbols" in word processor programs.)
    7) Pi is the bigger piece of pie.
    6) e has an easy limit definition and infinite series. The limit definition of
    pi and the infinite series are much harder.
    5) e you understand what it is even though you start learning it late when
    you're in pre-calculus. But pi, even after five or six years it's still hard to
    know what it really is.
    4) People mistakenly confuse Euler's Number (e) with Euler's Constant (gamma).
    There is no confusion with the one and only pi
    3) e is named after a person, but pi stands for itself.
    2) Pi is much shorter and easier to say than "Euler's Number".
    1) To read pi, you don't have to know that Euler's name is really pronounced
    Oiler.

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    From: ejones@hooked.net (Earle Jones)

    In Alaska, where it gets very cold, pi is only 3.00.  As you know,
    everything shrinks in the cold.  They call it Eskimo pi.

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    From: David C. Ullrich <ullrich@math.okstate.edu>

    >On 27 Dec 2003 16:01:46 -0800, jhexxagon@shaw.ca (Jordan) wrote:
    >
    >How many digits of pi have you memorized? I did 100. The world record
    >was set by Hiroyuki Goto of Japan with 42,195 digits!

    I've memorized 100,000 digits. They're all 3. Of course I haven't
    memorized exactly where they occur.

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    From:Bill Taylor (wft@math.canterbury.ac.nz)

    And God said "Let there be numbers", and there were numbers.
    Odd and even created he them, and he said unto them be fruitful and multiply;
    and he commanded them to keep the laws of induction.

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    From:Joachim Verhagen

#### Prime time

The math faculty decided they got to too few first year students. So, they they made a television commercial to show had exciting mathematics can be. Too get the biggest audience it was scheduled at prime time: 2 o'clock, 3 o'clock, 5 o'clock, 7 o'clock and 11 o'clock.

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    From: stan kegel <kegel@fea.net>,  Puns of the weak
    Numbers are friends, for me, more or less. It doesn't mean the same for
    you, does it - 3,844? For you it's just a three and an eight and a four and
    a four. But I say, "Hi! 62 squared." (William Kline)

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#### Subsections

- 1. mathematics - general
- 1.1 proofs
- 1.2 statistics and statisticians
- 1.3 mathematicians
- 1.4 mathematics poetry
- 1.5 mathematics quotes
- 1.6 mathematic puns
- 1.7 mathematical terms
- 1.8 mathematical exams
- 1.9 learning mathematics
- 1.10 mathematical tests to take
- 1.11 mathematical equations
- 1.12 topology
- 1.13 numbers
- 1.14 set theory
- 1.15 functions

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