- '05 Annual Performance Review: Albert Einstein - Peter Norvig
This parody of human resources formalities imagines how Albert Einstein's supervisor at the Bern Patent Office might evaluate his on-the-job performance. "This is a patent office, Albert.... Where does it say that your priorities are rewriting the rules
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- Abbott and Costello's Wacky Math - Ivars Peterson (MathTrek)
The Math in the Movies Web page provides an annotated list of films in which mathematics plays some sort of role. The choices range from the calculus lessons of Stand and Deliver to the mystifying numerology of the 1998 thriller Pi. Among the notable
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- ACME Klein Bottles - Cliff Stoll
"Searching for a one-sided surface? Need a zero-volume bottle? Want the ultimate in non-orientability? Get an ACME Klein bottle!" Available in several different models, including classical, Erlenmeyer flask, sliced, spiral, "weirdies," and special designs.
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- The Addventures of Plusman - Michael Cherry
Math puns, wordplay and illustrated concepts, all in a comic book format. The first of the Plusman series introduces Adam Tegetter, Aidee DeGrangle, Hex A. Hedron, the evil Dr. Nein and the origin of Plusman and the Permutation; the second tells of the
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- American Pi - Lawrence Mark Lesser
Song lyrics by Lawrence Mark Lesser, approximately to the tune of Don McLean's "American Pie." Read a PDF of the Texas Mathematics Teacher article Slices of Pi: Rounding Up Ideas for Celebrating Pi Day, and see Lesser's "mathemusician" page for more lyrics
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- Bernhard Kutzler's Collection: Technology in Mathematics Education - Bernhard Kutzler
Read or download the author's articles: "Algebraic Calculators as Pedagogical Tools for Teaching Mathematics"; "Indispensable Manual Calculation Skills in a CAS Environment"; "Two-Tier Exams as a Way to Let Technology in"; and "Interconnectivity - Derive
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- The Calculus Hater's Home Page - Jacob Walker
A forum for people made miserable by calculus. Complaints, links to personal pages, and calculus humor pages. Includes links to helpful calculus resources on the Web.
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- The Canonical List of Math and Jokes - David Ni
A searchable archive of jokes and other humor on general mathematics, proofs, statistics and statisticians, and mathematicians. Also, poetry and quotes.
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- CARROLLIA - Mensa España - CarrollSIG
El órgano de comunicación del CARROLLSIG de Mensa España, que se dedica a las matemáticas recreativas, la lingüística, la literatura experimental, la lógica, la ciencia, y todo aquello que hubiera gustado
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- The Car Talk Puzzler - Tom & Ray Magliozzi
"Every week on our NPR radio show, Car Talk, we present our listeners with a curious little conundrum. Sometimes it has to do with the inner workings of cars. Sometimes it has to do with language, algebra, or something else you should have learned in
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- CAUSEweb - Dennis K. Pearl, Director
The Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education (CAUSE) collects, reviews, develops, and disseminates resources for members of the undergraduate statistics education community. Resources include lesson modules for lecturers; computer
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- Comedy Tonight, Math Style! - Ivars Peterson (MathLand)
Edward Burger and Colin Adams aren't yet as well known as such famous comedy teams as Laurel and Hardy... but they are not only performers but also math professors at Williams College in Williamstown, Mass. They bring antic energy, slapstick humor, and
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- The Cow in the Classroom - Ivars Peterson (MathLand)
Math Curse by Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith spoofs the types of word problems that educators and textbook writers invent to dress up arithmetic exercises and, supposedly, to demonstrate the relevance of math to everyday life. Canadian economist and humorist
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- Crackpot Index - John Baez
A fun site which outlines how you can tell if a new theory is really from a crackpot.
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- Daniel J. Velleman - Daniel J. Velleman, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Amherst College
In addition to Velleman's selected papers, link to his books, software, and unpublished papers, including Proof Designer, a Java applet designed to help students learn to write proofs in elementary set theory by outlining the steps of proofs under the
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- Doron Zeilberger's Electronic Headquarters
Doron Zeilberger researches combinatorics using computer programs. The site is notable for his Opinions page; these opinions are wide-ranging but touch upon mathematics education, the use of computers, and the value of incomplete proofs. All of Zeilberger's
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- The Effects of Moore's Law and Slacking on Large Computations - Gottbrath, Bailin, et al.; Steward Observatory, University of Arizona
A tongue-in-cheek paper in which the authors show that, in the context of Moore's Law, overall productivity can be increased for large enough computations by 'slacking' or waiting for some period of time before purchasing a computer and beginning the
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- The Erdös Number Project - Jerry Grossman
Paul Erdos wrote hundreds of mathematical research papers in many different areas, many in collaboration with others. His Erdos number is 0. Erdos's co-authors have Erdos number 1. People other than Erdos who have written a joint paper with someone with
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- E-World - Glenn Elert
A homepage including links for his Midwood High School classes, Teachers College (Columbia) materials, especially papers on mathematics (Chaos, Fractals, Dimension; Ptolemy's Table of Chords; Mathematics Packages) and education reform (School Choice;
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- The Feeling of Power - Isaac Asimov
Science fiction that explores a time when only computers know how to multiply. "...seven times three is twenty-one." "And how do you know that?" asked the congressman. "I just remember it. It's always twenty-one on the computer. I've checked it any number
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- A Field Guide to the Orbifolds (Geometry and the Imagination) - Conway, Doyle, Gilman, Thurston; The Geometry Center
Tongue-in-cheek hints for learning how to classify the 17 types of symmetry patterns in the Euclidean plane. "...information presented in this section has been gleaned from a cryptic manuscript discovered among the personal papers of John Conway after
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- FTL
An online magazine with articles about space, science, and science fiction. Features include a series of humorous articles by Ian Stewart, with topics ranging from lattice polyhedra (and conceptual art) to Diophantine equations (and camels).
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- Gardner's Web - David Cox
A newsletter containing articles written by students, interesting Web links, and taxing puzzles.
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- Gary Ramseyer - Dept. of Psychology, Illinois State University
A professor of psychology, specializing in statistics and measurement. His site features the First Internet Gallery of Statistics Jokes and a column on statistical topics of interest, with an archive. Columns include: the birthday problem (given a room
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- Gödel, Escher, Bach - John M. Lawler, Dept. of Linguistics, Univ. of Michigan
Listings of links on Godel, Escher, and Bach, and other material related to Hofstadter's book by that name, from a math appreciation course called "Math for Poets."
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- Glossary of Mathematical Mistakes - Paul Cox
Paul Cox's list of common mathematical mistakes committed by advertisers, the media, reporters, politicians, activists, and others. Cox analyzes everything from circular reasoning, graph errors, and spurious use of the law of averages to "factorectomy,"
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- The Grafica Obscura Outpost - Paul Haeberli
Come see experiments in progress in the GRAFICA Outpost. Rants, CGI hacks, the FIAT LUX conference proceedings and many harmless distractions. Travels in Digital Photography; A Visual Language; 1997 Paper Conference; a web fonts proposal; Java stuff;
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- Grafica Obscura - Paul Haeberli
An evolving computer graphics notebook: a compilation of technical notes, pictures and essays. Contents include: Paper and Plotter: A 3D Surface; Laser Cutting for Rapid Manufacturing; Geometric Paper Folding: Dr. David Huffman; Paper and Light (An inexpensive
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- How to sell soap - Keith Devlin (Devlin's Angle)
Humorous takeoff on scriptwriting a series on two families: the Points and the Lines...
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- Interactive Mathematics Miscellany and Puzzles - Alexander Bogomolny
"The peculiar beauty of Mathematics lies in deduction, in the dependency of one fact upon another. The less expected a dependency is, the simpler the facts on which the deduction is based - the more beautiful is the result." This award-winning site offers
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- Is Mathematical Teaching a Function of Time? - Andrej and Elena Cherkaev, eds.
A page of math humor, including definitions, anecdotes, math education jokes, theorems, puns, limerics, and links.
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- I Used To Believe - Mat Connolley
A collection of childhood beliefs, such as thinking that cats are female dogs, that seeds swallowed will sprout fruit from your ears, and a primal fear of toilets. "Some of the beliefs come from overactive imaginations, but a lot are the result of parental
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- Jim Loy's Mathematics Page - Jim Loy
This is an informal collection of articles on many different mathematics problems. Topics include Algebra, Geometry, Calendars, Number Theory, and reviews of mathematics-related books. See also Jim Loy's Puzzle Page and Jim Loy's Logic Page.
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- John Allen Paulos
John Allen Paulos is a mathematician and author of the books Mathematics and Humor, I Think, Therefore I Laugh, Innumeracy - Mathematical Illiteracy and Its
Consequences, Beyond Numeracy - Ruminations of a Numbers Man, A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper,and
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- The Klein Four Group - Matt Salomone, Northwestern University
An a cappella group of the world of higher mathematics containing the "elements" Clark Alexander, Kal Nanes, Matt Salomone, Scott Bailey, and Mike Johnson. Original compositions and arrangements include "Finite Simple Group (of Order Two)"; "Three-Body
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- The komplex plane - Travis Kowalski
Kowalski's problems, animations, tutorials, and other "mathlets" focus on calculus. See also the jokes collected by this professor at South Dakota's School of Mines, and his blog of math musings that wonder at the mathematics in everything from quilts
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- Lateral Puzzles - Paul Sloane
Pose or solve lateral thinking puzzles, also known as situation puzzles, which depict a counterintuitive scenario to be explained by asking yes-no questions or by proposing explanations. Read question-and-answer conversations of current and solved puzzles;
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- MASSIVE: Math And Science Song Information, Viewable Everywhere - Greg Crowther
A searchable database of over 1800 educational songs, including many about math. Part of the National Science Foundation's National Science Digital Library (NSDL).
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- MAT 007 I News, Wreckreational Math - Joel Chan, Ed.; Dept. of Mathematics, Univ. of Toronto, Canada
A newsletter that combines mathematics and humour, with articles that range from the very serious and informative to the witty and hilarious. The ultimate goal of the newsletter is to bring you some enjoyment in mathematics that you might not be able
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- Matematicamente.it - Antonio Bernardo and Marcello Pedone
Esercizi svolti, raggruppati per argomenti; appunti di analisi; test di matematica, per le medie superiori; tesine maturità agli esami di stato; ingresso superiori; approfondimenti, spunti e idee per insegnanti e studenti; misura il Quoziente di
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- Matemática da Escola Secundária de Alcácer do Sal - Paulo Correia
A página de matemática da Escola Secundária de Alcácer do Sal (ESAS) inclui exercícios de escolha múltipla interativo sobre probabilidades, funções, e complexos. Humor matemático oferece apontamentos
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- Math Cartoons - Sidney Harris
Dozens of one-panel, black-and-white cartoons about mathematicians and mathematics. Harris has contributed "I think you should be more explicit here in step two ..." to The New Yorker and other publications. Browse his funny drawings on other topics,
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- Math Dork Interactive Math
Animated algebra tutorials, on-line quizzes, and games. Animations require Flash 3. Full access to this site involves a monthly fee; free lessons include graphing points in the coordinate plane and "The Golden Rule of Algebra."
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- Matheatre - Sadie Bowman and Marc Gutman
Blog of the performers starring in "Calculus: The Musical!" This comic "review" blend of sketch comedy, musical theatre, and lecture about the concepts and history of calculus emerged as a teaching tool from the classroom of Gutman, who "... found that
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- Mathematical Concepts, Inc. - Agnes Azzolino
Games, calculators, jokes, books, and tools to help the student, teacher, parent, and the public to see the world mathematically. Read Math Spoken Here, featuring the essays "Most Operations Are Not Distributive," "So, What's A Fraction?" "A Graph Is
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- Mathematics: A Lot of Fun - Frank Wikström
A page by a graduate student in Sweden that includes his short essay on what mathematics is; a few articles he's written; a list of unsolved problems; math jokes and quotes; and links to math journals, preprints, newsgroups, and other Web resources.
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- Mathematics in Tens - Steve Mayer
Ten ... problems to make you think, facts about maths you may not know, good maths books, mathematicians, maths jokes, reasons to study maths, mathematical links, mathematics software programs, mathematical constants, mathematical formulae. Ten little-known
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- Mathematrix - Lee Stemkoski
A site devoted to exploring mathematical recreations, some of the more entertaining and generally lesser-known areas of mathematics, from a Mathematics and Computer Science major at Boston University. Topics include: Polyominoes, Soma Cube, Rubik's Cube,
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- Math Horizons' Venery Game - Stephen F. Kennedy
In the September 1995 issue of Math Horizons readers were asked to join in a game of creating collective nouns with a mathematical theme. The article was titled "A Gaggle of Geeks." Highlights from the reader response were collected and published in the
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- Math Humor - B. Sidney Smith; Math Academy Online/Platonic Realms
Math related jokes, puns, and limericks (suitable for all ages), with content rotated daily.
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