I haven’t heard anything I can repeat without getting death threats, so how about a joke mathematicians might appreciate? I’m sure the title of the each ‘proof’ resonates among us who try to get information from those more informed than us:
- Proof by deferral: “We’ll prove it next week.”
- Proof by cyclic deferral: “As we’ve proved last week…”
- Proof by indefinite deferral: ” As I said last week, we’ll prove this next week.”
- Proof by lack of imagination: “I can’t think of any reason why it’s false, so it must be true.”


ha, and you thought that mathematicians are a nice bunch? If you don’t die from pure mathematics and derivation of expansion series, you mutate to a new breed with weird mind control powers.
Behold, they’ll take over your mind when you go out to the corner shop for lunch…… and make you empty your paypal account.