Math Jokes 4 Mathy Folks Paperback – August 9, 2010

I cannot really do a review of this book as I purchased it for my Granddaughter in OK. She is in her senior year at the university majoring in a Math major. She will go on into more years of schooling so as to complete her math major into acquiring her Ph. D. degree. I hope this gives her some humor to use if and when she teaches math. It was a joy to find and send to her. Now I need to find a Chemistry joke book for my Grandson... :-} as he is majoring to be a Chemical Engineer.

Bought 2 copies of this book for gift to brainy son of a friend and copy for myself. He attends an institution for gifted children, and math is his favorite subject. He enjoys the book, and it makes me laugh aloud. Author very clever.

This is a short book of short jokes, covering a broad range of mathematical levels. For example, it starts with "Why is 6 afraid of 7? Because 7 8 9" and includes "What is big, gray, and has integer coefficients? An elephantine equation". It includes many old classics, but it also has many jokes I hadn't hear of. I found it very pleasant to read, and I look forward to using some of these jokes in my classes!The jokes in this book are jokes in the usual sense. For mathematically related anecdotes, Howard Eves' "In mathematical circles" series, and Steven Krantz's "Mathematical Apocrypha" and "Mathematical Apocrypha Redux" are all good. For humorous mathematical essays, there is Colin Adams' "Riot at the Calc Exam".

We bought this for my daughter's 5th grade math teacher and he loved it!

As a mathematician, I think these are great! It has me laughing after a long hard day. I'm thinking about buying a few more copies for gifts.

The morning I gave this book to my son, he didn't put it down for a long time. He was laughing and flipping the pages as fast as he could. (And he was on his summer break)!Since he teaches algebra, trigonometry, and calculus in high school, I thought he might 'inspire' some of his students.My son became even more inspired when he noticed that one of the book's endorsements was from a college professor of his.

My brother loved this. And the section on "3 Dudes" made me laugh out loud (partly because I was engineering before I was math so the comparisons made sense). Some of the jokes were incomprehensible...possibly because they were outside my field. But I think most Math/Science folks will find enough pertinent content, regardless of their area of expertise, to tickle their funny bones.

Lots of them were not funnyNot enough easy ones