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Candace was one of my students; "Used the wash-bowl?"--I felt some compunction, In my school was a teacher of math, A non-pythagorian casino, The ancients' enigma, old Zeno, If a = b (so I say) [a = b] Both sides we will factorize. See? But since I said a = b, Once a bright young lady named Lillian, If you are as bright as this Lillian, Kindly old Grandfather Lunn "My age!" answered Barbara Blatt, 4 dozen, 3 gross, and a score I may be a fraction improp' One thousand two hundred and sixty Integral z-squared dz, Missionaries and cannibals came Well, an 'e' to an 'i' times a 'pi' A multiple of eleven I be; I used to think math was no fun, = e + 1.
There's a prime who's my twin, not my cousin; The sum of my digits is 10, There's less energy in flaming Sterno, The puzzle of old Dr Rubik, A young number from Boston, a square, A six-letter word I begin, I think, sir, that I've got your riddle; In ounces, three more than two quarts, The square root of (x-y), As c equals x squared plus 4, I think that I'm finally done I thunk and I thought and I pondered I don't think that it's a persimmon, I'm odd with a two-digit place, I'm a two-digit prime and no more. If (1+x) real close to 1, There once was a cube 'twas found The functions considered by Burnol, The construction that Burnol prepared Mathematicians one year went to ground Ram Murty discussed sub-convexity, With factors from every locality, The link with the model of Ising The new man for current Director Say physicists, whom we should venerate, Is the Riemann Hypothesis deep? When Deitmar was occupied solely Hyperbolical flow is essential Said Deninger, mathematician, What problems remain at the end? For Lie group analysis, there's No continuous families? There's Four zeroes bad -- what information? The new thing Fesenko can try: Under gravity, gas in a ball; The series that Goldfield has shown What made Grothendieck terribly good The viewpoint in days such as these Lin Weng's new construction immense: The construction Lin Weng carries through There were slides in the land of the Lord, Can Selberg's five-axiom class With some interruptions and fuss, Iwaniec's new program guides Transparencies made late at night Getting L-functions greater than nought
Whose demeanor, in truth, wanted prudence.
When discussion ignited,
She'd get real excited,
Adding more than her lawful two cents.
--- M Hale
Quitting guest Weierstrass at the Junction:
Out of action, our loo,
And he suffered, I knew,
From a doubly-repeating pee-function!
--- James Albert Lindon P9507
Who followed the same well-known path.
When it came to a test,
The kids came off second best;
That teacher's best point was his wrath!
--- Arthur Pattaffy
And in slouches failed gambler, Zeno.
At blackjack, 20's staight,
Needed nine but rolled 8.
And missed by 'that much' playing keno.
--- Anon
Adjourned to a gambling casino.
He successfully proved
That the wheel never moved
And won every roulette game in Reno.
--- Wendi Hoffenberg
And we multiply both sides by a,
Then we'll see that a2 [a2 = ab]
When with ab compared,
Are the same. Remove b2, OK? (a2-b2 = ab-b2]
--- Peter Wilkins
Now each side contains a - b. [(a+b)(a-b) = b(a-b)]
We'll divide through by a
Minus b and ole!
a + b = b. Oh whoopee! [a+b) = b]
--- Peter Wilkins
b = b + b: you'll agree? [b+b = b]
So if b = 1,
Then the sum I have done, [1+1 = 1]
Proves 2 = 1, Q.E.D.
--- Peter Wilkins
Summed the numbers from one to a billion.
But it gave her the fidgets,
To add up the digits.
If you can help her, she'll thank you a million.
--- Enigma LA Times P8806
Sum the numbers from one to a billion,
And to show you're a whiz,
At this kind of biz,
Sum the digits in numbers one to a billion.
--- Enigma LA Times P8806
Is twice as old as his son.
Twenty-five years ago
Their age ratio,
Strange enough, was three to one.
--- Pilar
"Just keep it under your hat.
Adding one to each figure,
Makes it nineteen years bigger
Than half what it is. So what's that?"
--- Seattle P-I P8802
Plus 6 times the square root of four
Plus 5 times eleven
Divided by seven
Is 9 squared and not a bit more.
--- Armand Singer
Prime sum of my bottom and top,
But as decimal you see
(Between 2 and 3)
My one digit never will stop!
--- John Gregory P9702
four million eight hundred and fifty
three thousand nine hun-
Dred and seventy one
Point two seven five eight four six three.
--- Leigh Mercer P0606
From 1 to the square root of 3,
Times the cosine
Of 3 pi over 9,
Equals log of the cube root of e.
--- Anon
To the river of puzzle math fame.
But with cannibal Mensans
Missionaries all densans...,
Need we post the line score of this game?
--- David Finely P9701
When increased by '1' may seem fie!
If one were to go poking
On calculator smoking,
'Twould produce just an '0', how wry!
--- Anon
Not odd, but even, you see.
My digits (a pair),
When multiplied there,
Maka cube and a square out of me.
--- John Gregory P9702
'Cause I couldn't see how it was done.
Now Euler's my hero,
For I now see why zero
i(pi)
--- Paul J Nahin A
Our digits add up to a dozen;
I'm six less than a square,
A tens digit we share.
Find us and your brains will be buzzin'.
--- John Gregory P9702
Their difference: a square, I contend.
Just one more clue:
I'm prime and small too,
Being less than 60, my friend.
--- Limerick Puzzles P8509
But one blistering fact which I do know,
And on which I insist,
Heat exudes from each twist,
Of that Rubik's Cube dreamed up by Erno.
--- Loren Fitzhugh P0105
Or counting one's follicles, pubic,
Are problems less hard,
Than mailing your card,
With pictures of creatures cherubic.
--- Anon
Had digits exactly a pair;
The square right before
Was no less and no more
Than 17 numbers from there.
--- John Gregory P9709
And I'm helping my team get a win;
At five I'm a tie,
Four, haggis I buy,
And at three, I'm a bed kind of thin.
--- Cyber Wizard
I think there's a 'scot' in the middle.
Raised his ascot up
Covering haggis sup,
Then use his ma'scot for a diddle.
--- Cyber Wizard
My digits are consecutive sports;
My neighbors (each side)
Are not prime, they confide,
And they see me as one of those sorts!
--- Lim Number Puzzles P0406
(Two integers, not very high,)
Divided by c
Gives a quotient of 3,
And also, no word of a lie...
--- Tiddy Ogg
And y = c squared, no more
Is needed for you;
In a minute or two,
To figure out just what's the score.
--- Tiddy Ogg
And here is the answer I've spun:
Your system works when
X = 10,
And y = c = 1
--- Dr Limerick 07-17-02
'Til into depression I wandered.
To spare further stress,
I think I'll just guess,
'Cause on this, too much time I've squandered.
--- Anon
Or anything concerning women...
The clues seem to fit
So I'll say that it
Appears you've created a LEMON!
--- Anon
This is file mwl
Twice one is the other one's face.
I hope you don't mind,
For you're going to find
You've one of two numbers to chase!
--- Lim Number Puzzles P0406
My digits subracted is 4;
Their sum is not ten.
I say to you then,
To find me is not a big chore.
--- John Gregory P9709
Is raised to the power of 1
Over x, you will find
Here's the value defined,
2.718281...
--- Anon
Whose two digits, when switched clear around,
Was the product (quite fair)
Of a cube and a square,
And its name will most surely astound.
--- John Gregory P9702
Their support on the line is internal,
And the mapping that shows
Taylor series at rho's
Is eigen with suitable kernel.
--- Martin Huxley
Has the wave-functions boldly declared,
Contractions amassed;
Span the log? Not so fast,
When you count multiplicity squared.
--- Martin Huxley
To elucidate Chebyshev's bound.
His tale of endeavor
Was told to us never;
Apparently nothing was found.
--- Martin Huxley
Not just something where it expects to be.
A structure's required
To get what's desired,
And the proofs have a certain complexity.
--- Martin Huxley
Mixed up like a Florida ballot, he
Discovers it bearing
Symplectical pairing,
Thus questioning Connes's reality.
--- Martin Huxley
Is one of those things that is teasing.
Distribution that's joint
Is a critical point;
Is it vapor, subliming, or freezing?
--- Martin Huxley
Followed Old Man Polya in his lecture.
A lattice with links
Lead, so zeta, he thinks.
And he knew how to work the projector.
--- Martin Huxley
In eleven dimensions, at any rate,
With rusting away,
The beautiful decay,
With symmetries going degenerate.
--- Martin Huxley
It made Hardy and Littlewood weep.
Or is there a trick
To get answer so quick,
That Deitmar could see in his sleep?
--- Martin Huxley
With compactified spec and its wholly,
He woke up in the night
Know all was alright;
He dreamt Germany picked him as goalie.
--- Martin Huxley
To get zeta as det(differential).
When Deitmar in slumbers,
Saw spec of whole numbers,
He awoke and reduced to tangential.
--- Martin Huxley
"It's traverse in Lie or position.
Suspicion won't do.
This clearly is true.
Even if you don't know definition!"
--- Martin Huxley
Success in detecting a trend?
The list that we found
Presented by sound,
Consists of the usual blend.
--- Martin Huxley
A concept that's nice: dual pairs.
With this information
A representation
Gives characters up and down stairs.
--- Martin Huxley
The construction of Schoof-VanDerGeer's.
Should the zeroes be fixed?
The parameter mixed
Them, exchanging positions in pairs.
--- Martin Huxley
Is it curtains for pair correlation?
A factor to fiddle
Can go in the middle,
So the riddle was not devastation.
--- Martin Huxley
To complete the point x at point y.
He completes y at x
With the self-same effects,
Getting fibre relations thereby.
--- Martin Huxley
Do the free oscillations stay small?
The stable condition
First order Hermitian,
Riemann discovered it all.
--- Martin Huxley
Continue to critical zone
Give moments to zeta,
But no record beater;
They're cases where moments are known.
--- Martin Huxley
Was, he can't see the tree for the wood.
He aimed to surpass
Andrew Weil and his class,
And he beat whomsoever he could.
--- Martin Huxley
Is to not see the wood for the trees,
As the dog in its habit
Cannot see the rabbit,
Nor its infinitesimal fleas.
--- Martin Huxley
Definitions were left in suspense,
With micro-locality.
Top group duality,
"Whenever the counting makes sense."
--- Martin Huxley
Has a product of sorts in rank two.
Should you call it a zeta,
Related to theta,
For Q in rank two, it's still new.
--- Martin Huxley
There's a book that we cannot afford.
Now the insights of Haran
No longer seem barren;
It's much better sense up on the board.
--- Martin Huxley
Beyond automorphic ones, pass?
And how many twists
Before there exists
A holomorphic or Maass.
--- Martin Huxley
Iwaniec presented to us
A conditional bound
For the class number found,
But technically hard to discuss.
--- Martin Huxley
Where the Siegel exceptional hides;
A sort of Big Brother;
One angle or other,
We watch it from so many sides.
--- Martin Huxley
Should be read in a different light.
Please look at my slide
As a garrulous guide,
Which is not necessarily right.
--- Martin Huxley
Requires special values be caught
As factors upstairs
With symetrical squares,
Whose continuance has to be fought.
--- Martin Huxley
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