Top 10 Excuses for Not Doing Math
Homework
Classic Version
I accidentally divided by zero
and my paper burst into flames
Gottfried Leibniz's birthday
I couldn't actually reach my
notebook...I could only get arbitrarily close to it
I had a proof, but there wasn't
enough room to write it in this margin
I got tied up watching the World
Series and ended up trying to prove that it converged
I have a solar powered
calculator and it was cloudy
I locked the paper in my trunk
but a four-dimensional dog got in and ate it
I couldn't figure out whether i
am the square of negative one or i is the square root of negative one
I took time out to snack on a
doughnut and a cup of coffee, but being a topologist, I couldn't tell
the difference
I could have sworn I put the
homework inside a Klein bottle, but this morning I couldn't find
it.