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How do mathematicians joke? Can you remember professional

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jokes about mathematics?
Technology An engineer, a physicist, and a mathematician are all staying at a hotel
for a convention.
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An hour later, the physicist wakes up and smells smoke. He opens the
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An hour later the mathematician wakes up and smells smoke. He opens
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thinking. And thinking. Looking at the fire and thinking. Staring off into
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solution exists!” and he goes back to bed.

Edit: As this answer is getting some attention, I need to give credit where
About · Careers · Terms · it is due. I heard this joke from Professor Robert Z. Norman, one of my
Privacy · Acceptable Use · major advisors at Dartmouth College. That was about 40 years ago, and
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