Phyllis Diller (1917-20120), outspoken and funny, pioneering female comedian, died Monday, August 20. Her self-deprecating humor was hugely hilarious -- and it helped the rest of us also not to take ourselves too seriously.
In honor of Phyllis Diller and humor, I first offer a link to a "poem" from a favorite math-cartoonist -- Randall Munroe offers an amusing rhyming critique of the various majors (including math) available to undergraduates -- at xkcd.com. And, below, I share several slightly funny math jokes adapted from ones found at Math Jokes 4 Mathy Folks and shaped into 4x4 or 5x5 syllable-square poems.
How can a math
person add spark
to a party?
Well, she can leave!
Well, she can leave!
How can we discern
a proposition
from a lemma? You
won't ever get a
lemma at a bar!
Did you hear about
the newest largest
prime? It's exactly
three times as large as
the preceding one.
Some math songs also are a source of humor. Here is a link to videos for ten songs about mathematics (posted by Dave Richeson, Dickinson College). And here are some math lyrics by Larry Lesser of the University of Texas.
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