Nishika Bhatia wrote in to tell us about Dr. Isomorpheus, a webcomic about mathematicians. It’s full of weak puns of the “abelian grape” variety. You might like it!
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The Aperiodical’s Best Maths Pun of 2014 Competition – The Results
It’s time to reveal the results of our search for the best maths pun of 2014.
First of all, a startling number of you seemed unclear as to what a pun is. Yet others seemed not to notice that we were asking for new puns, so we had to rule those out as well. After ruling out all the invalid entries, we were still left with a few dozen workable puns, so there was plenty to consider.
Below are the results, along with comments from our awards committee (Peter, Katie, Paul and Christian, along with guest celebri-judges Matt Parker, Steve Mould and James Grime, who happened to be nearby at the time).
Congratulations to everyone who gets a mention, and of course to our absolute favourite, the winner. Which will be revealed at the end, after you’ve read all the not-quite-as-good ones, obviously.
Announcing The Aperiodical’s Best Maths Pun of 2014 Competition
Here’s one of my favourite maths puns.
What’s yellow and equivalent to the axiom of choice?
Zorn’s Lemon!!!!!!!!
I like it because it’s a real groaner, but to even begin to see what it’s punning on you have to know some pretty obscure facts about set theory. That makes it an ideal maths pun.
Maths puns abound (both upper and lower). Most of the time they make your eyes roll so badly that gimbal lock becomes a consideration, but a real corker makes all the years of mathematical study worthwhile.
Since the year is about to end, we thought it’d be a fun idea to collect some new maths puns, and run a quick competition to find 2014’s best offering (or the local maxipun at 2014, as we like to call it).
News in brie(f)
“What’s that, boss?”
“I said, look at this article on a conference about how maths is applied and write something full of puns.”
“Cheesy puns?”
“Attaboy.”