FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS:
Question 1: Are you some type of alien in disguise who can't understand the frustrations encountered when one tries to master mathematics?
Answer : No, ...at least I don't
think so. But some of us may be aliens and not know it. I'll check and
get back to you on that , ok.
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Question 2 : Do you have a life?
Answer : Yes, but just one. Wish
I had another, but then that would be two lives,... which is more then
one; and that is not allowed.
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Question 3 : Can I go to a mathematician's office sometimes and ask a question?
Answer : Yes!
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Question 4 : Are you Attila the Hun posing as a mathematician?
Answer : No. He's dead. And besides,
he was not a very nice man. I am. My daughter said so, and she wouldn't
lie about something like that.
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Question 5 : Why is it that, after a party, when I try to do my Calculus homework, I never seem to get the answers which are at the end of the book?
Answer : As
a general rule it is never a good idea to "drink and derive". (But if the
person who found the answers at the end of the book did, you may
find that your answers coincide.)
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Question 6 : Why do they refer to the theorem which associates finding the General Antiderivative of a function to finding the area of the region bounded by that function and the x-axis as "The Fundamental theorem of Calculus"?
Answer : I'm
not too sure, ...but I think it is because it is considered a fundamental
theorem in calculus.
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Question 7 : Why do mathematicians never discuss penguin rights publicly ? Are they afraid of being marginalized or is it because of the fact that penguins are known for their poor mathematical skills ?
Answer : Uhhhh...Yes....This
is not an unimportant question and is well worth studying. I think it be
would worth while that penguins through out the world organize a delegation
and present their grievances to the next World Congress of Mathematicians
requesting that a committee be formed to look into this.