{"id":66,"date":"2005-02-13T14:53:53","date_gmt":"2005-02-13T14:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/?p=66"},"modified":"2007-06-03T10:42:20","modified_gmt":"2007-06-03T10:42:20","slug":"comic-sections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/?p=66","title":{"rendered":"Comic Sections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1857480074\/qid%3D1082473925\/sr%3D1-1\/ref%3Dsr%5F1%5F8%5F1\/026-9743143-7846034\">Comic Sections<\/a> is the funniest mathematics book I have read and I (and others) giggled all the way through it &#8211; how many maths books can you say that about? It is a collection of mathematical jokes, poems, reviews, howlers, riddles, wit etc etc which vary from the low-level<\/p>\n<ul>90&deg; is the boiling-point of a right-angled triangle<\/ul>\n<p>via calculus<\/p>\n<ul><img src='\/maths\/latexrender\/pictures\/4d7bc4cc81c356df354239363c9fad8c.gif' title='\\displaystyle \\int \\frac{d(\\text{cabin})}{\\text{cabin}}=\\log(\\text{cabin})+\\text{sea}' alt='\\displaystyle \\int \\frac{d(\\text{cabin})}{\\text{cabin}}=\\log(\\text{cabin})+\\text{sea}' align=absmiddle><\/ul>\n<p>to the more advanced<\/p>\n<ul>Q. What is a kittegory? A. A small category<\/ul>\n<p>via a journal review<\/p>\n<ul>This book creates a much-needed gap in mathematics<\/ul>\n<p>and on to a final exam question<\/p>\n<ul>Discuss the advances made in algebra since the invention of the phrase &#8220;char F <img src='\/maths\/latexrender\/pictures\/e0067ea8fed5882d830dbcda1122f776.gif' title='\\neq' alt='\\neq' align=absmiddle> 2&#8221;<\/ul>\n<p>I have already quoted from the book a couple of times <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/index.php?s=comic\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no way I can do justice to the book so you have no choice but to buy a copy \ud83d\ude42 Yes, it&#8217;s out of print but the author Desmond MacHale, will sell you one. This is what he told me:<\/p>\n<ul><em>I have about 100 softback copies remaining which sell at a trickle because I don&#8217;t promote it and they retail at $15 US including postage if you want to spread the word about. Yes I really should rewrite it but I am busy working on Beauty in Mathematics which I hope will be influential;there are of course many new mathematical jokes since I wrote CS.One of my favourites is What is the difference between an introvert mathematician an an extrovert mathematician? Well,when an IM is talking to you he looks at his shoes;when an EM is talking to you he looks at your shoes!<br \/>\nMy postal address is Dept of Mathematics, University College, CORK,Ireland.<br \/>\nBest regards, Des MacHale<br \/>\nPS Key in my name on Amazon.com or abebooks.com to find my other stuff on jokes,WIT,movies and lateral thinking puzzles, if you want to punish yourself further for Lent.<\/em><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comic Sections is the funniest mathematics book I have read and I (and others) giggled all the way through it &#8211; how many maths books can you say that about? It is a collection of mathematical jokes, poems, reviews, howlers, riddles, wit etc etc which vary from the low-level 90&deg; is the boiling-point of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66","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\/66","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}