Maths cartoon

a) Don’t get it.

b) Get it but not funny.

c) Like it.

d) Old joke.

e) Learn to draw, dude.
(I know it’s silly, but I was strangely attracted to the idea.)

Oh, boo! (Isn’t there a one math pun per thread limit here?)

I vote E: it’s supposed to look more like a butterfly, than infinity.

a) Didn’t get it.

The only Lorenz I’m familiar with is Konrad Lorenz- he did extensive work on animal behaviour, and is arguably more famous than the math Lorenz.

The cartoon is, however, strangely attractive to me. :slight_smile:

b.)
Definitely

b)

That made me smile (and groan a bit).

Between a) and c). I think I get it but I’m not sure. It slightly amused me.

c)

Maybe a hint of e), but I got it and chuckled. Or chortled. Sometimes it’s hard to tell.

the “butterfly effect” guy?

a) Didn’t get it. But then I read the wikipedia article and I still didn’t get it.

My saving grace is that I know what a Rayleigh number is (or at least I remember it from University).

b and a half) Get it but minor chuckle.

If you have a Mac, the Grapher application that comes with it has a Lorentz attractor as one of its 3-D examples. It looks like this. I don’t really understand the pretty pictures, but it’s fun to rotate the cube and look at it from different directions.

<groan>

c) and e)

c) and e) for me, too. Now go and bake some Mandelbrot.

(If you laughed at that, own up. I can’t be alone. Not here.)

Why was Johnson a math genius? He proved schools are integrable.

Hmm, moderately tough crowd.

Lorenz died last month. I can actually draw slightly better than that effort, which was done with Microsoft Paint, a dodgy optical mouse and about 60 seconds of my work day. :slight_smile:

a.

Assume it has something to do with the ‘infinity’ sign? I’ll go and read through the other posts now…

b)

Groooooooooaaaaaan. (B).

c.

a. (English teacher – I can diagram your post, but haven’t a clue about the picture.)

Nevermind, already explained.