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My favorite math joke (credit Jerry Bona):
ReplyDelete"The Axiom of Choice is obviously true; the Well Ordering Principle is obviously false; and who can tell about Zorn's Lemma?"
It's a joke because all three are logically equivalent; and it's funny because all three are intuitively true.
And it's my favorite because it tells you something important about intuition.