FoxTrot by Bill Amend for March 10, 2024

still waiting for a strip for Dune Chapter 2. Soon. Soon enough.

Snakes on a plane is cute. As is prime rib.

I’m sure Numberphile fans won’t mind those

And yet, someone just did. Getting awfully meta, Fox Trot.

Math cartoons could do well, but there will be divided opinion.

Much Better than “Meth” Cartoons! :)

There are lots of them from Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal.

Today’s classic FoxTrot Sunday strip:

https://www.gocomics.Com/foxtrot/2003/03/09

The plot to the Calculus: The Movie may have been too derivative, but it was integral to its final solution.

Sin me up.

In the sequel to “Snakes on a Plane”, a Z-axis will be added.

It will be in 3-D and it will be called “Snakes in Space”.

As they go forth and multiply, they will be rapidly adding to the world.

My Dad was a math professor for 28 years. He would find this comic strip hilarious!

Math puns are

The first sine of madness!

Puns make me numb, but math puns make me…

Number.

Math Pun

We know that 6 was afraid of 7 since 7 ate 9. But why did 7 eat 9 in the first place.

Because it wanted 3 square meals a day.

Parallel lines have so much in common…

it’s a shame they’ll never meet.

All of the equations in the second panel start out with “y=”. That’s the way equations like that always are, but why? Instead of something like y=2x, it could be x=0.5y. It should come out the same, but when I suggested that to my math teacher once, he said it was never done that way, but he couldn’t give me a satisfactory explanation of why. Anyone here know why it’s always done that way?

They would appeal to a subset of the population.

Apple pi or cherry pi?

Anybody remember “The Jason Fox Math Quizzer” for Apple devices? If you do, then there are some rewards for you. ;)

Panel one is a week late. Should have run it on March forth.

Someone asked me if there was ever a book that made me cry. I answered “yes, calculus”

Hey, it’s working for Randall Munroe …

There could be prime interest in the Calculus movie.

There is a high probability of many people liking the math comics; but the mean comic reader will say nasty things about them. It’s just their mode of operation.

The hopelessly square,root for such entertainment.

See Sidney Harris.

I don’t know, I might be able to understand more complex math if it was in comic form.

I actually got some of those. Quite clever.

XKCD’s been making this joke for years.

After Jason is done with these, it’ll be the aftermath.

How long have you been waiting to post that?

Not any kind of a math head, but I like these, especially the Snakes on a Plane panel.

Calculus: The Movie — where math(s) is integral to the plot

Dang he would be any math teacher’s dream! Not only would the cartoons help kids understand concepts, they could be encouraged to draw their own!

Does Scientific American still publish?

Randall Monroe might have some advice…

I think some of the commenters here are going off on tangents….

If Jason sends them out to lots of sites, his chances of success will multiply.

Ah Jason, secant ye shall find.

Tom Lehrer once said he wanted to write a sexy math textbook: Tropic of Calculus

I liked them Jason.

I like those, tangentially speaking

I never understood prime numbers. Fibonacci I get

He’s been doing this all along

he left out pie are square.

In college, I made some cartoons based on metallurgy (my major).

The second rack of ribs may not be “prime”, but it is “perfect”.

I didn’t get the last one…

Ackshully, I thought they were pretty good.

Grandson taking pre-calculus. He enjoyed this cartoon.