Party Ideas For Math Nerds?

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?"

Comments

Three things.

[Adambomb]

Alcohol. Barry White. Intercourse.

Trust me, its great for the rest of us.

While you're at it, watch Barton Fink.

Re:Three things.

[palantir]

Dont forget to serve pi with the coffee

Sex party!

[Kymermosst]

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

I have a few ideas...

[Izabael_DaJinn]

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....

Blackjack and hookers

[Cocoshimmy]

In fact, screw the Blackjack!!!

Re:Blackjack and hookers

[Anonymous Coward]

In fact, screw the Blackjack!!! Can't, busy screwing the hookers.

Re:Blackjack and hookers

[Anonymous Coward]

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

Imaginary

[mrbamboo]

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

Re:Imaginary

[i kan reed]

Well, unless you're a square...

Refreshments idea

[count_zero451]

Serve Pi instead of cake?

They already have everything they need.

[raehl]

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

Re:They already have everything they need.

[iminplaya]

And she's not deflatable.

Well then how do you get her into the suitcase?

Re:They already have everything they need.

[Mikkeles]

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

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

Re:Dude! Drinking games

[Reinsarn]

Don't drink and derive!

Re:Dude! Drinking games

[GeneralCC]

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

Re:A drinking game called Buzz: here's how it work

[Chris Shannon]

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.

Re:Oh God, it's finally happened...

[SL Baur]

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 )

Re:Okay, stop right there ...

[lisaparratt]

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?

Re:Scrap Barry White

[backwardMechanic]

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

Re:Scrap Barry White

[caramelcarrot]

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.)

Re: Reimmannian folding conjunction Kuhns patches

[turkeyfish]

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.

Re:Scrap Barry White

[peccary]

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