Link for Zeke and other math nerds...
 

lol here's a link for ya'll. I didn't get any of the jokes, but I thought Zeke and maybe Cat would. ;)

Enjoy!

http://www.themathlab.com/geometry/funnyproofs.htm

I got them - they're really very funny!

21: Proof by illegibility:
http://www.themathlab.com/geometry/illegible.gif

30: Proof by deception: "Now everyone turn their backs..."

29: Proof by hasty generalization: "Well, it works for 17, so it works for all real numbers."

26: Proof by divine word "...And the Lord said, 'Let it be true,' and it was true."

12: Proof by mumbo-jumbo:
http://www.themathlab.com/geometry/mathcourt/mumbo.gif

WOO! :D

17 Proof by lost reference "I know I saw it somewhere..."

Fermat? :wink:

^ Grooaannn.....

No, I don't actually get it, but it seemed appropriate. :P

^^Eh, not quite ;)


Or something like that :D. We used a version of that in chem lab today. Had to figure out what was in each of five assigned solutions, but didn't see a jar of one handy for pHing. But since the other four were neutrals and a base, it didn't take a rocket scientist to deduce that the fifth was probably an acid ;) (see Proofs 1 and 7) (ooo, that counts as Proof 16) (and so does that!).



:lol: Contrary to popular belief, this is not my standard method for dealing with proof problems. I have considered using it on occasion though.



Heehee :D

Now, I have used 30 - 32 and 36 in the past ;) and doubtless will do so in the future.
(What do you mean, can I prove that? Of COURSE I can; you see, I...er...well, by analogy with the past, I just have a gut feeling it's going to continue into the indefinite future :P)

Heheh. Thanks for the link, Sab. I've seen lists like this posted on some of my professors' doors before.

I even said that while in Calculus class, lol.

The first day I was in Calculus, the teacher took the whole period proving 1.9 = 2, and still to this day I don't believe it.

Don't you mean 1.999999999999..... = 2?

It is true, it's based on limits, I'll explain it sometime if you wish.

NO!

Really.

Don't.

NO!

We're fine. REALLY!

Hehe, some of those made sense to me too!

That may be the limit of 1.999999... as the number of 9's approaches infinity, but even at infinity I don't think of it as equalling 2. ( Yes that was an example of Proof type 27 :P )

Are you sure it wasn't:

33: Proof by avoidance: Limit of proof by postponement as it approaches infinity

Also, I seem to have a few serious no votes here on the explaination, I'm afraid it wouldn't be very nice to explain it anyways....


...but then again :twisted: ...

Eh, 33 too. Sure! :)


I imagine it works the same as lim(n -> infinity) [1/2 + 1/4 + 1/8 + ... + 1/2^n] = 1. It just looks weirder. :P

wow I didn't realize there were so many math nerds here...Wow...my mind has turned to jello while reading the replies.

oh and Xeroc, you might want to PM that explanation for the safety of those non math nerds reading this thread. Of course this thread is for math nerds. Ok, maybe it's ok that you explain it. Maybe I'm the one that's not right.


Heh. "If there's nothing wrong with me then there must be something wrong with the universe." Now that's a fun quote.

*runs from thread kicking and screaming*

^And then there are people who don't like math. Weirdos. :wink:

37 Proof by lack of margin. "I have discovered a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition that this margin is too narrow to contain."

Oh, proofs. O_O I never wanted to hear these godforsaken things mentioned in my presence ever again. O_O *goes on a big rampage stomping on geometry classes throughout the world*

Let me prove that I am the Master of the Universe:
If we were to let A be a number at which the proof that I will it works,
That the Square on the Hypoteneuse is under the Lux-Waffler-Scribble Diagram Event Horizon Barrier, That Time=Space and that the fundament is Ingressed across the Negative axis under a CRAZ of 0.36, then we can safely assume that the Igno-Stultic Fossatic Litus is still in place, and that Planck's theorem is therefore out of scale on the halpin across which we may say that X can be less than or equal to 54 degrees and that time and space are in fact warped around me.
(I'm no good at maths, but technobabbling is my forte!)