Laughing It Up With Gauss

Gaussian guffaws....

A few months back Evelyn Lamb introduced me to a humor site I love, called "Gauss Facts" -- a sort of over-the-top jocular fan-site for one of the greatest mathematicians of all time. Worth checking out every few months, or whenever you feel the need to inject a little humor into your day (...and, you're a mathematician):

http://www.gaussfacts.com/top

some example 'facts':

"Gauss can recite all of pi -- backwards."
"Gauss shaves both himself and Bertrand Russell."
"Erdos believed God had a book of all perfect mathematical proofs. God believes Gauss has such a book."

Monday Miscellany

Pick-A-Number From 10 to 10000...

Pretty impressive online 'guess-the-number' game here:

http://myframeshoppe.ca/math/

(H/T to Sol for leading me to it)

More on the Oct. 21 worldwide "Celebration of Mind" in memory of Martin Gardner here:

http://www.thinkfun.com/puzzlehunter/?p=308


And last month I mentioned Carl Gauss as one of my "Fab Four" mathematicians of all time. If you need to know more about him, Steven Colyer recently posted a nice mini-biography at his blog:

http://tetrahedral.blogspot.com/2010/10/carl-gauss.html