How good are mathematicians at telling a joke?

You may have wondered how good mathematicians are at telling a joke.


Here’s mathematician Henry Segerman telling a topology joke — the one about the coffee cup and the donut:



Here’s another mathematician, Ian Agol, telling the same joke (filmed by Scientific American.)


Here’s Jim Fowler making the joke wordlessly:



Three anonymous, shy mathematicians make the joke wordlessly (but for a cough):



And here, probably destined to be most famous of all, is the presentation in Stockholm of the parable of the cinnamon bun, the bagel and the pretzel:



BONUS (distantly related): A presentation of the möbius bagel-cutting principle, with added lox, by Eugenia Cheng:



 


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Published on October 04, 2016 21:35
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