Here are a few that have been floating around the Math department...
An engineer, a physicist, and a mathematician are stranded on an island when a can of food washes onto the beach. The engineer and the physicist comes up with many ingenious ways to open the can. Then suddenly the mathematician gets a bright idea: "Assume we have a can opener ..."
A team of engineers were required to measure the height of a flag pole. They only had a measuring tape, and were getting frustrated trying to keep the top of the tape at the top of the pole: It kept falling down. 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!"
And my personal favorite...
Several scientists were all posed the following question: "What is pi ?"
The engineer said: "It is approximately 3 and 1/7"
The physicist said: "It is 3.1415926"
The mathematician thought a bit, and replied "It is equal to pi".
An engineer, a physicist, and a mathematician are stranded on an island when a can of food washes onto the beach. The engineer and the physicist comes up with many ingenious ways to open the can. Then suddenly the mathematician gets a bright idea: "Assume we have a can opener ..."
A team of engineers were required to measure the height of a flag pole. They only had a measuring tape, and were getting frustrated trying to keep the top of the tape at the top of the pole: It kept falling down. 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!"
And my personal favorite...
Several scientists were all posed the following question: "What is pi ?"
The engineer said: "It is approximately 3 and 1/7"
The physicist said: "It is 3.1415926"
The mathematician thought a bit, and replied "It is equal to pi".




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