Chicken Jokes

The plan here is to collect some chicken jokes, inspired by David Morin’s similar thing with physicists. I try to answer the age old question of Why did the chicken cross the road? from the perspective of different mathematicians.

John Nash: Because the chicken always does what is best for the chicken. The chicken does not care for the group.

Newton: Because the chicken does not understand what a vector is.

Pythagoras: Because the chicken’s angle was not right.

Fermat: I know the answer, but this message is too short to write it.

Ramanujan: I don’t know. The chicken is finite. I know infinity.

Serge Lang: I leave it as an exercise to the reader.

Erdös: Because he wanted to write a joint paper with me.

Mandelbrot: The chicken crossed the road because the chicken crossed the road because the chicken crossed the road….

Alan Turing: It is an enigma to me.

C. L. Dodgson: Alice is also wondering the same.

Möbius: She didn’t, she just got back to where she started.

Penrose: Because she couldn’t climb the stairs.

Stephen Hawking: Because the black hole in the pavement bothered her.