In my experience, mathematicians tell this joke on themselves.
There's another one they tell:
Two guys in a balloon dip down to a field to ask a farmer where they
are. The answer comes: You're in a balloon. The one guy says to the
other, He must be a mathematician. The answer is absolutely correct
and absolutely useless.
On May 2, 2010, at 10:51 AM, John Kennison wrote:
Just a note --I've never liked that old saw about the black cow --
mathematicians are always working with generalizations. Scientists
are the ones who claim to be working strictly with observations.
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