Mishustin told two jokes about physicists and mathematicians

Prime Minister Mishustin told two jokes about the differences in the thinking of physicists and mathematicians

Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin held a meeting with Russian schoolchildren who won international competitions in natural and exact sciences. During the conversation, he decided to tell two anecdotes about physicists and mathematicians and their difference in thinking.

“The bear is running. A physicist and a mathematician run ahead of him. They run together and think how to save themselves. What the mathematician thinks – “the bear runs at a speed of 11 km / h, I run at a speed of 10 km / h, if I cannot accelerate, then I will die.” What does the physicist think – “the volume of the stomach of a bear is 1 cu. meter, the volume of mathematics is 1.2 cubic meters. meters. We must run faster. If he [медведь] Mathematics will catch up with the first one, then I will be saved, ”Mishustin voiced an anecdote.

At the end of the anecdote, he summarized that “the difference in thinking and approaches testifies to how they teach to think.”

Mishustin also told the second anecdote, which tells about already known heroes in the train.

“Three physicists and three mathematicians gathered for a conference. Buy tickets at the station. Cunning mathematicians look at physicists and wait for them to go. Physicists bought three tickets, mathematicians bought one. Then they all boarded the train. The controller is coming. Mathematicians before he went went to the toilet and closed there. When the controller knocked, they gave out one ticket, he pierced it and went on. The physicists, having looked at this, did the same on the way back from the conference and bought one ticket. Mathematicians looked at what physicists had done and didn’t buy a single one. Then they got on the train. The physicists in front of the controller went to the toilet and closed. One of the mathematicians went to the toilet before the controller, knocked, took the ticket, and the mathematicians ran to the next car to the new toilet,” the Prime Minister said.

Having voiced the last joke, Mishustin brought out the moral – “if you don’t know the method, don’t use it.”