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.


 * Fermat claimed he would be there, then died.

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