Calculus Math Riddles Collection
A collection of Calculus Math Riddles for fun and pleasure! Tease your brain with these riddles.
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Calculus
Why can’t you have beer at a math party?
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Because you can’t drink and derive.
What is the integral of “one over cabin” with respect to “cabin”?
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Natural log cabin + c = houseboat.
What is the shortest mathematicians joke?
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Let epsilon be smaller than zero.
Why are mathematicians afraid to drive cars?
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Because the width of the road is negligible compared to its length.
What is the first derivative of a cow?
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Prime Rib.
What’s polite and works for the phone company?
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A deferential operator.
What did the zombie say to the mathematician?
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I hate integrating by parts.
What is the limit as n goes to infinity of sin(x)/n?
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6 (Cancel the n in the numerator and denominator)
What did sin x ask e* x* at the party?
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Why don’t you integrate yourself into the party?
How can this function be a limerick?
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It can be read as:
Integral z-squared dz
from 1 to the cube root of 3
times the cosine
of three pi over 9
equals log of the cube root of ‘e’.
(And it’s correct, too! Each side evaluates to 1/3.)
Why are Maclaurin series so good for approximating functions? (contributed by Aaron)
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They’re Taylor-ed (tailored) to each of them.
Who knows everything about vector calculus? (contributed by Aaron)
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The Oracle of Del Phi.
The Circle Inscribed In A Parabola Puzzle
A circle with radius 1 is tangent to two points of the parabola y = x2.
What is the area between the circle and the parabola?
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