{"id":162,"date":"2007-06-03T11:21:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-03T11:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/?p=162"},"modified":"2020-03-14T19:29:30","modified_gmt":"2020-03-14T19:29:30","slug":"mathematics-comedy-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/?p=162","title":{"rendered":"Mathematics Comedy Videos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mathematical humour is quite difficult to do. I have previously blogged about the book <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/?p=66\" title=\"Comic Sections\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Comic Sections<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0and there are other books like Carl Linderholm&#8217;s <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Mathematics-made-difficult-Carl-Linderholm\/dp\/0529045524\" title=\"Mathematics made difficult\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mathematics made difficult<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ian_Stewart_%28mathematician%29\" title=\"Ian Stewart\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ian Stewart<\/a>&#8216;s books which contain much humour;\u00c2\u00a0a cartoon series\u00c2\u00a0Ian drew is the\u00c2\u00a0inspiration for this<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"243\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/wp-content\/uploads\/mu.gif\" alt=\"Mu\" height=\"180\" title=\"Mu\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mathematical humorous videos are even rarer. Here are a couple. The first is very well-known and has been written about all over the net for a long time. It is\u00c2\u00a0 <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.windley.com\/archives\/2007\/05\/finite_simple_group_of_order_two.shtml\" title=\"Finite Simple Group of Order Two\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Finite Simple Group of Order Two<\/a> by the Klein Four Group and involves\u00c2\u00a0very clever use of mathematical terms. The other is <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/video.google.co.uk\/videoplay?docid=-4035423643441275899\" title=\"G103\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">G103<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0which is described as\u00c2\u00a0<em>a (surreal) day in the life of an undergraduate on the 4-year MMath degree at the University of Warwick<\/em>. Anyone who has experience of a pure mathematics degree will recognise the accuracy of the amusing observations it makes. There&#8217;s more about the film at the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/o.tearne.org\/G103\/\" title=\"G103\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">G103<\/a> site.<\/p>\n<p>There was also a\u00c2\u00a0previous humorous video made at Warwick University called <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.maths.warwick.ac.uk\/~jsmith\/MathsClub\/\" title=\"Maths Club\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Maths Club<\/a>. Unfortunately, it&#8217;s not available on that page or anywhere else as far as I can see. Does anyone know if it&#8217;s still available?<\/p>\n<p>Links to other amusing mathematics videos are very welcome.<\/p>\n<p>PS <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/unapologetic.wordpress.com\/\" title=\"The Unapologetic Mathematician\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Unapologetic Mathematician<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0links to a spoof basic mathematics tutorial produced by the BBC called <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MiMWJ1xBo8w\" title=\"Look Around You - 1 - Maths\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Look Around You &#8211; 1 &#8211; Maths<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mathematical humour is quite difficult to do. I have previously blogged about the book Comic Sections\u00c2\u00a0and there are other books like Carl Linderholm&#8217;s Mathematics made difficult\u00c2\u00a0and Ian Stewart&#8216;s books which contain much humour;\u00c2\u00a0a cartoon series\u00c2\u00a0Ian drew is the\u00c2\u00a0inspiration for this Mathematical humorous videos are even rarer. Here are a couple. The first is very well-known [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":284,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions\/284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}