One from the Independent

"The art of mathematics"

Thanks to Tony Ackroyd for this one

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7617191.stm

Newton discovers Surrealism

from Private Eye no. 1218, 5 September 2008

Darth Vader explains the Pythagorean Theorem

Thanks to Don Cook and the Philomathes list for this one.

Mathematical Chat-up Lines

Try these at your own risk (and report the results here):

• "If I were sin^2 and you were cos^2 together we would be 1."
• "I wish I were your derivative sp that I could lie tangent to your curves."
• "That dress would look even better at 32 feet per second per second."

(My thanks to Daniel for sending me these, from a letter to the Times from Dom Rowland and Ed Smith of Trinity College, Cambridge.)