Three men are in a hot-air balloon. Soon, they find themselves lost in a canyon. One of the three men says, "I've got an idea. We can call for help in this canyon and the echo will carry our voices far." So he leans over the basket and yells out, "Helllloooooo! Where are we?" They hear the echo several times.
Fifteen minutes later, they hear this echoing voice:
"Helllloooooo! You're lost!" One of the men says,
"That must have been a mathematician." Puzzled, one of the other men asks,
"Why do you say that?" "For three reasons.
One, he took a long time to answer; two, he was absolutely correct, and three, his answer was absolutely useless."
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Two male mathematicians are in a café. The first one says to the second that the average person knows very little about basic mathematics. The second mathematician disagrees, and claims that most people can cope with a reasonable amount of maths. The first goes off to the toilets, and in his absence his companion calls over the waitress.
He tells her that in a few minutes, after his friend has returned, he will call her over and ask her a question. All she has to do is answer one third x cubed. She repeats,
"One thir - dex cue"? He repeats, "One third x cubed".
"One thir dex cubed?" Yes, that's right, he says. So she agrees, and goes off mumbling to herself,
"One thir dex cubed..."
The first guy returns and the second proposes a bet to prove his point that most people do know something about basic maths. He says he will ask the blonde waitress an integral, and the first laughingly agrees. The second man calls over the waitress and asks, "What is the integral of x squared?".
As instructed, the waitress says "One third x cubed," and while walking away, turns back and adds over her shoulder, "Plus a constant."
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