ProofWiki:Jokes/Mathematicians' Party

Once upon a time, all the physicists who had ever lived attended a great big party, in order to let their hair down and enjoy themselves for once.

Plenty of mathematicians attended, and quite a few chemists and biologists came too.

Our roving reporter was at the door, and these are some of the things he observed ...
 * Archimedes was found floating naked in the bath. He later agreed that, on balance, he'd screwed up.


 * Max Planck stayed only a very short time.


 * Johann Bernoulli and Jacob Bernoulli got ejected from the party for sliding down the brachistochrones.


 * Kurt Gödel showed up precisely because he wasn't invited.


 * Werner Heisenberg may or may not have been there.


 * Aristotle definitely was there, or wasn't. But not both.


 * Hamilton went into every room once only, trying to find Euler, who passed through every door exactly once trying to find Hamilton.

''Many, many other physicists and mathematicians were there. Please tell any stories about them that you know.''