gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) (03/20/86)
(I would've sent this to Norman, but as soon as I saw .EDU I gave up.) The all-time funniest math book I've ever seen is "Seven Years of Manifold, 1968-1980", edited by Ian Stewart and John Jaworski (Shiva Publishing Ltd., 1981), ISBN 0-906812-07-0. Manifold was a more-or-less underground math magazine from University of Warwick. It included math humor, cartoons, poems, puzzles, and serious tutorials. My favorite selection is "An Odd Evening" by Ian Stewart, which parodies graduate math research.