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| There really are only two types of people in the world, those that don't do math, and those that take care of them. |
| An engineer, a physicist and a mathematician find themselves in an anecdote, indeed an anecdote quite similar to many that you have no doubt already heard. After some observations and rough calculations, the engineer realizes the situation and starts laughing. A few minutes later, the physicist understands too and chuckles to himself happily as he now has enough experimental evidence to publish a paper. This leaves the mathematician somewhat perplexed, as he had observed right away that he was the subject of an anecdote, and deduced quite rapidly the presence of humor from similar anecdotes, but considers this anecdote to be too trivial a corollary to be significant, let alone funny. |
| Q: What is the physicist's definition of a vector space? A: A set V such that for any x in V, x has a little arrow drawn over it. |
| A professor, when asked how many problems there would be on the final, turned to the student and replied, I think you will have lots of problems on the final. |
| A mathematician, standing puzzled at the photocopier and complaining to the secretary: I set it to 'Single Sided Copy,' and now it comes out as a Möbius Strip! |
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