Math Jokes

• An execuse for not doing math homework: “I could only get arbitrarily close to my textbook, I couldn’t reach it.”
• Q: What is a topologist?
  A: Someone who cannot distinguish between a donut and a coffee cup.
• Q: What’s a dilemma?
  A: A lemma that produces two results.
• A mathematician and an engineer are on a desert island. They find two palm trees with one coconut each. The engineer shinnies up one tree, gets the coconut, and eats it. The mathematician hinnies up the other tree, gets the coconut, climbs the other tree and puts it here. “Now we’ve reduced it to a problem we know how to solve.”

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