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Math, Santa, and Venn Diagrams

December 14, 2011 GB Fun and Jokes, High School Mathematics

It’s nearly Christmas, so I’d like to have some rest and avoid serious math posts. To be honest, I’m really thinking about the costume that I’m going to wear tomorrow for our Any Costume Christmas party. I’m thinking about a Dragon Ball Z costume (Vegeta perhaps?). I suppose we have the same height (lol).

Anyway, I found a Venn diagram (see, it’s still related to math), with Santa on the intersection. You would probably agree with me that the one who thought about this is a genius.

By the way, a Venn diagram is a schematic diagram that show logical relations between sets (sorry can’t help it). Venn diagrams are used in elementary set theory especially to represent set relationships in probability, logic, statistics, and computer science.

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25 Signs You are a Future Mathematician

December 5, 2011 GB Math Lite

It’s a rainy Monday morning. Last night, I came across with Top 10 Signs That You are a Mathematician. The article inspired me to write my own list, only this time, Signs You Are a Future Mathematician.

Your handwriting is ugly.
You use Latex in doing your homework instead of Word, Pages, or OpenOffice Writer.
You know that “if A then B” is different from “If B then A.”
When you speak or write, you are concise and direct.
You don’t or seldom use idiomatic expressions.
You have a limited knowledge of synonyms.
You know how to pronounce Euler.
You know that not all the time 1 + 1 equals 2.
You know what’s the meaning of the symbol …
You know that the word ‘close’ can mean ‘far’ and the word ‘elementary’ is a dangerous word (e.g. elementary number theory).
You know how to use the summation symbol.
Just for fun, you use $\epsilon$ and $\delta$ to denote your neighbors.
You are interested in math and bored by other subjects.
You scratch your head and murmur “What does he exactly mean by that?” when your science teacher says that “math is an exact science.”
You know that your biology teacher has a misconception of math when he says that mathematics is just a tool.
You know the meanings of pennies, nickels, and dimes, even if you don’t live in the US.
You like to take the shortest path from one place to another.
You know Terence Tao and Ramanujan.
You own a compass and a straightedge.
You use GeoGebra, Maxima, or Octave.
You know how to use AND and OR.
You don’t bet in lotteries.
You avoid loans and credit cards.
You know that $\infty + \infty$ is not equal to $2\infty$ .
You enjoy reading Mathematics and Multimedia. 😀