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Party Ideas For Math Nerds?

Posted by kdawson on from the three-piece-suits dept.

rbf writes "A girl I like at my university, a graduate student in mathematics, will be having a birthday next month. She had thought of throwing a nerd-themed party — show up with tape on your glasses, pants hiked up, etc. However, she decided against it because most of her friends are math nerds and wouldn't even have to dress up! So my question for the community is: What fun party ideas would appeal to a group of mostly math-major nerds?"

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  1. Three things. by Adambomb · · Score: 4, Funny

    Alcohol. Barry White. Intercourse.

    Trust me, its great for the rest of us.

    While you're at it, watch Barton Fink.

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    1. Re:Three things. by palantir · · Score: 5, Funny

      Dont forget to serve pi with the coffee

    2. Re:Three things. by Dogtanian · · Score: 2, Funny

      Dont forget to serve pi with the coffee Pi? Pfft.... real mathematicians know that 'e' is the most important of all.

      Though you'd have to watch out for (a) the police, and (b) the 1990s wanting for their drug back ;)
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    3. Re:Three things. by enoz · · Score: 2, Funny

      It could be the "Nihon Hikikomori Kyokai", translated roughly means Japanese Recluse Association. Seems to be subtly relevant.

    4. Re:Three things. by J.R.+Random · · Score: 2, Funny

      I did in fact make a serious study of women. It was very depressing. I know what women want. I'm not it.

  2. Sex party! by Kymermosst · · Score: 3, Funny

    It'll be the first time for a lot of things for you math nerds! :)

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  3. I have a few ideas... by Izabael_DaJinn · · Score: 5, Funny
    See who can recite Pi the furthest in Hexadecimal (3.243F6A8885A308D31319...)

    Play pin the tail on the integer?

    Dress up as your favorite nonlinear equation.

    Start a drinking game where everyone increases their drinks parabolically. (or alternatively: everyone drinks when someone says "Archimedes.")

    TP the English department utilizing the golden spiral....

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    1. Re:I have a few ideas... by Psychotic_Wrath · · Score: 2, Funny

      Dress up as your favorite nonlinear equation. So get some girls and try x^3.

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    2. Re:I have a few ideas... by cleatsupkeep · · Score: 2, Funny

      I was going to say dress up as: The integral from 10 to 13 of 2x.

      Or, in t-shirt form: http://www.cafepress.com/buy/calculus/-/pv_design_prod/p_1893551.71056139/pNo_71056139/id_14094545/fpt_/opt_/c_666/pg_3

  4. Dude! Drinking games by AchiIIe · · Score: 2, Funny

    Come on, its' a given Drinking games. Let's see how well you integrate after a couple !

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    1. Re:Dude! Drinking games by Reinsarn · · Score: 5, Funny

      Don't drink and derive!

    2. Re:Dude! Drinking games by GeneralCC · · Score: 3, Funny

      Don't drink and derive! Unless you have a designated philosophy major.

    3. Re:Dude! Drinking games by stereoroid · · Score: 2, Funny

      Careful now - too many snorts, and you lose the power to differentiate. Before you know it, you'll be inviting some irrational number around to Laplace for a Root...

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    4. Re:Dude! Drinking games by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      I believe that the 'philosophy major' is the base unit of a pyramid scam. The eventual goal of a philosophy major is to become a philosophy instructor. In order to be a philosophy instructor, you need philosophy students. From there, the cycle eventually degrades where there are not enough philosophy students and the instructor must become a wal-mart greeter.

  5. Well... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Pin the tail on the Gaussian Curve?
    Bobbing for Protractors?
    Spin the Klein Bottle?

    1. Re:Well... by howlingmadhowie · · Score: 2, Funny

      this reminds me of my favorite maths joke:

      what's yellow, complete and normed?

      a bananach space.

  6. Blackjack and hookers by Cocoshimmy · · Score: 3, Funny

    In fact, screw the Blackjack!!!

    1. Re:Blackjack and hookers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      In fact, screw the Blackjack!!! Can't, busy screwing the hookers.
    2. Re:Blackjack and hookers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      blackjack and hookers...you want to screw the blackjack?

    3. Re:Blackjack and hookers by Vectronic · · Score: 2, Funny

      "I'll go build my own lunar lander with blackjack and hookers. In fact, forget the lunar lander and the blackjack. Eh, screw the whole thing"

  7. Imaginary by mrbamboo · · Score: 5, Funny

    Imaginary party, you don't even have to show up!

    1. Re:Imaginary by i+kan+reed · · Score: 4, Funny

      Well, unless you're a square...

  8. Re:Are you kidding me? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    (Spoiler: This is not the party you want to throw for your girlfriend.)

    I don't think that is gonna a problem.

    And how come people who like math can't have a regular party? What's wrong with a few drinks, some music and a drunken fumble?
  9. LAN PARTY!!!! by Khyber · · Score: 1, Funny

    Quite a few probably game. Throw a LAN.

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  10. Refreshments idea by count_zero451 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Serve Pi instead of cake?

    1. Re:Refreshments idea by SQL+Error · · Score: 2, Funny

      Coffee and donuts for the topologists.

  11. They already have everything they need. by raehl · · Score: 5, Funny

    There's going to be a GIRL there. And she's not deflatable. It's going to be the best math nerd party EVER!

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    1. Re:They already have everything they need. by iminplaya · · Score: 5, Funny

      And she's not deflatable.

      Well then how do you get her into the suitcase?

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    2. Re:They already have everything they need. by Mikkeles · · Score: 4, Funny

      'Well then how do you get her into the suitcase?'

      Use the inverse of the Banach-Tarski theorem (iterate as needed).

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    3. Re:They already have everything they need. by btgreat · · Score: 2, Funny

      You'd better hope she's pro-choice.

  12. Re:Pi Cake by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    The cake is a lie.

  13. Re:A drinking game called Buzz: here's how it work by Chris+Shannon · · Score: 5, Funny

    a multiple of 7 (49, 24, etc..), then you must say "Buzz", Protip: If you make it above a number that meets all 3 rules, start over because you have missed the point of a drinking game. Something tells me that you wouldn't make it above 24.
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  14. Re:Gambling! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    And you get bonus chips if the dealer catches you counting cards.

  15. Re:Hookers by shwouchk · · Score: 2, Funny

    Most of them are probably virgins. Most hookers are probably virgins? but how can that be?
  16. Re:Oh God, it's finally happened... by SL+Baur · · Score: 3, Funny

    Slashdot has become a dating service. Quick, someone tell Richard Stallman!
    http://www.templetons.com/brad/spamreact.html#msg
    (from http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/04/25/1421227 )
  17. Re:Okay, stop right there ... by lisaparratt · · Score: 5, Funny

    If that's way off base, at least here's a party idea: have everyone come dressed up as a liberal arts student. :) But where would you find enough McDonalds uniforms at such short notice?
  18. Re:Scrap Barry White by backwardMechanic · · Score: 4, Funny

    They're mostly maths nerds - have you any idea how complicated those drinking games are going to get?

  19. Re:Scrap Barry White by hostyle · · Score: 2, Funny

    Me and my engineering buddies always preferred Asshole Amen brother. Everyone knows engineers are gay people who just don't know it yet.
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  20. Re:Okay, stop right there ... by ListenToBlackSabbath · · Score: 2, Funny

    Many a shy guy (myself included) has fallen into that trap way too many times, because friendly gestures are far easier than being direct and facing the possibility of rejection. Strumming my pain with his keyboard,
    Typing my life with his words.
    Killing me softly with his post,
    Killing me softly...with his post.
  21. How to keep them occupied by rmav · · Score: 2, Funny

    To keep the math majors occupied, you could give them a pie (round of course), and ask them to square it. Roberto

  22. Re:Scrap Barry White by caramelcarrot · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's not that hard, you just pick a card and drink half the sum of the prime factors in fingers. If you get it wrong, you have to stand on your head and recite pi backwards (as hard as it sounds.)

  23. Re: Reimmannian folding conjunction Kuhns patches by turkeyfish · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yes, Gauss's Fundamental Theorem of Algebra does appear to be relevant, its just that the complex analysis required at the inflection points near the of roots positional integrands that define the bounded Reimannian surface produce a computationally expensive solution given the short duration of the party.

  24. Re:Scrap Barry White by peccary · · Score: 4, Funny

    Reciting pi backwards gets easier and easier as you go on, but getting started is a bitch.