Talk:Mathematical joke

message: Perfectly apt examples are hardly that. 72.37.249.60 (talk) 20:37, 18 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: "Vandalism"?

message: I have removed several variants of jokes from this page (e.g., the binary joke under base 3 instead of base 2). It could easily turn into a jokebook; items should only be included to demonstrate a specific concept; we need to be careful of over-example-ifying it. - DavidWBrooks (talk) 01:13, 13 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Variants of jokes 

message: it's not funny if you have to explain it  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 23.118.190.205 (talk) 21:39, 16 June 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: This is encyclopaedia, it is meant to be informative, not funny. --CiaPan (talk) 21:46, 2 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  leave more ambiguity 

message: I'm surprised this limerick is absent in the article, I thought it is much better known than 'A dozen, a gross, and a score'...
: Integral z–squared dzPronounce zee, dee-zee
: From one to the cube root of three,
: Times the cosine
: Of three pi over nine
: Equals log of the cube root of e.
:: \int_1^{\sqrt[3]3} z^2 dz \times \cos\frac{3\pi}9=\ln\sqrt[3]e
CiaPan (talk) 11:27, 2 June 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: The origin of the limerick is unknown, but it is mentioned in Second Wave Intertextuality and the Hebrew Bible by Marianne Grohmann and Hyun Chul Paul Kim, in Resources for Biblical Study vol. 93, page 154. A link to Google books: https://books.google.com/books?id=LtqaDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA154&lpg=PA154&dq=integral+zee+squared+dee+zee  CiaPan (talk) 19:57, 15 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Limerick 'Integral z squared dz' 

message: I think you should incorporate the following 1-line joke in the article: 
"1=2 (for sufficiently large values of 1)"
84.111.8.170 (talk) 20:44, 25 September 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: That's a nice one. Bob.v.R (talk) 10:37, 13 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suggestion for a good short joke 

message: Is it cheating to truncate the Y-axis in a graph? --Atlasowa (talk) 07:00, 13 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  One more 

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message: In my opinion, the section about "Imaginary and complex numbers" doesn't belong. It's too much information about a not-very-common example of the type of joke - mis-applying a mathematical concept - that is covered elsewhere. It's also written like a math paper, starting out with definitions of terms. I'd like to remove it; any thoughts? - DavidWBrooks (talk) 14:47, 6 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Let's remove the Imaginary and complex numbers section 

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message: A question both deep and profound,
Is whether a circle is round.
In a paper by Erdős,
Co-authored in Kurdish,
A counter-example is found.
(I may know the person who wrote that; no WP article, but with a bit of research they might pass WP:GNG. I don't know of anything even close to WP:RS for the limerick.) Narky Blert (talk) 19:27, 13 March 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: This article can't be - of course! - a list of all mathematical jokes. If we had a source, what would adding this to the article do for the reader? It doesn't seem to be a different type of limerick, just another example of it (albeit a good one!). - DavidWBrooks (talk) 19:58, 13 March 2020 (UTC)
replies: text:  Actually, there is a 'circle' in topology, which is not round – the Warsaw circle.  Funny coincidence, there is a street in Warsaw's Old Town called 'Krzywe Koło', literally 'Crooked Circle' (:pl:Ulica Krzywe Koło w Warszawie). --CiaPan (talk) 19:00, 26 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: A question both deep and profound

message: For any three points on a plane one can draw a line through all those points
...provided it's wide enough. --CiaPan (talk) 20:35, 13 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  The first axiom of descriptive geometry 

message: Just wanted to point out that Commons has this version for the "What did  say to ? Get real. What did  say to ? Be rational." that is currently mentioned in the article.  Daniel Mietchen (talk)  02:20, 26 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Be rational. Get real.