Happy 8th of December!
Throughout the month, to accompany the release of our book on the Mathematics of Christmas, Hannah Fry & I are tweeting out Christmathsy bits and pieces, one a day, advent calendar style. Assuming we don’t run out of ideas, that is…
There’s a tougher-than-usual puzzle tomorrow, so today we’re keeping it light, with a joke:
Happy 3nd of December!
Throughout the month, to accompany the release of our book on the Mathematics of Christmas, Hannah Fry & I are tweeting out Christmathsy bits and pieces, one a day, advent calendar style. Assuming we don’t run out of ideas, that is…
Today, a joke:
DON’T FORGET, you still have until tomorrow night (Sunday) to enter our competition…
A mathematician walks into a bar. The punchline is left as an exercise for the reader. #mathsjoke
— Thomas Oléron Evans (@Mathistopheles) March 17, 2015
Proposition: {ghost} = ∅
The proof is left as an exorcise.
See more maths puns at The Aperiodical’s Best Maths Pun of 2014 Competition