8 jokes from mathematicians

How to find Lenin Square? Lenin’s length is multiplied by the width of Lenin. But Lenin is not a rectangle!

On the day of laughter, a lecture “5 ways to make a scientist” organized by the Polytechnic Museum was held in the ZIL cultural center. The main speaker was the associate professor of the Department of Higher Mathematics of the Higher School of Economics and the administrator of Wikipedia Ilya Schurov. He told what jokes there are in the mathematical world and what serious facts are hiding behind them. Slon publishes an abbreviated version of the lecture.

How to find Lenin Square?

Lenin’s length is multiplied by the width of Lenin. This joke is understandable to the person who graduated from high school, but it is not for mathematics. The mathematician will say that you can find Lenin Square by taking an integral on the surface. Lenin is not a rectangle!

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