Tag Archive for 'Humor'

Amusing Mathematics videos

So while I am sat on the sofa, my wife is watching mathematics videos from http://mrbartonmaths.com/youtube.htm. There are some rather amusing and clever videos so have a look when you get a chance.

Particularly clever are The Mathematics Love Song which attempts to explain love using group theory (which I vaguely remember from my degree)

Amazing Maths trick that proves 1=2 is one I have seen many times before
(in case you wondered, the proof fails because it is invalid to divide by 0 [strictly speaking you get an undefined result], so the proof must have an initial restriciton of a != b at the beginning to be valid (and therefore does not prove 1=2))

James Blunt also sings his Triangle song for Sesame Street, which is rather odd to listen to.

Mathematical Pie is rather interesting too (yes, it is a mathematical cover of American Pie)

Of course you shouldn’t miss the Abbott and Costello maths which is phoenomenal

Bank scams by phone

UserFriendly has 2 fabulous comic strips on Bank scams by phone (the kind where someone phones you up and pretends to be your bank in order to get secure information by asking you to “confirm” some details)
Cartoon 1, Cartoon 2

Its a shame that they don’t let you hotlink the images like xkcd does