Advent Day 5
This is one of my all time favorite mathematician jokes. I absolutely adore this joke, and I love telling it to students. Let me know if you are like my students and need some explaining.
A Mathematician, a Biologist and a Physicist are sitting in a
street cafe watching people going in and coming out of the house on
the other side of the street.
First they see two people going into the house. Time passes.
After a while they notice three persons coming out of the house.
The Physicist: "The measurement wasn't accurate".
The Biologist's conclusion: "They have reproduced".
The Mathematician: "If now exactly 1 person enters the house then
it will be empty again.
A Mathematician, a Biologist and a Physicist are sitting in a
street cafe watching people going in and coming out of the house on
the other side of the street.
First they see two people going into the house. Time passes.
After a while they notice three persons coming out of the house.
The Physicist: "The measurement wasn't accurate".
The Biologist's conclusion: "They have reproduced".
The Mathematician: "If now exactly 1 person enters the house then
it will be empty again.