Engineer, Scientist, Mathematician

You can change the three characters --- usually you want to make your own profession the middle one!


Ball Bearings

A mathematician, a physicist and an engineer were being interviewed. As part of the process, they were given 2 brass ball bearings, left alone for a while, then asked what they had done.


Black Sheep

An engineer, a physicist, and a mathematician were on a train heading north, and had just crossed the border into Scotland.


variants:


Boiling water

An engineer and a mathematician were shown into a kitchen, given an empty pan, and told to boil a pint of water. They both filled the pan with water, put it on the stove, and boiled it.

The next day they were shown into the kitchen again, given a pan full of water, and told to boil a pint of water.


Bone

Three hungry cannibals --- who were a chemist, a physicist and an engineer --- found a human thigh bone.


Fence

An engineer, a physicist, and a mathematician are shown a pasture with a herd of sheep, and told to put them inside the smallest possible amount of fence.

-- from HUMOURNET


Oldest Profession

An engineer, a physicist, and a computer scientist were discussing what was the oldest profession.


Precision


Prime numbers

Various proofs that every odd number is prime :


Puncture

A project manager, a hardware engineer, and a programmer were in a car. Coming down a hill, a tyre got a puncture, the car went out of control, and a bad crash was only narrowly averted.


Reality

--- (from Canonical List of Math Jokes )


Results

--- (from science jokes, ver 6.7 mar 1, 1995 )