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I'm not sure I have any comment for this, other than to say how pleased I am that puns work just as well in math.

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bruckelsprout

We’ll have to get Herman Cain, the Godfather of Pizza, to verify this.
- drennen
  
  He is a mathematician.
http://twitter.com/chidalgo Claudio Hidalgo

and an old one; there’s a t-shirt for that:

http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts-apparel/unisex/sciencemath/cc38/?srp=5

(got mine for more than a year)
querent

Q: What’s an anagram for Banach-Tarski?

A: Banach-Tarski Banach-Tarski.
- robotnik
  
  Had to look it up, but having done so: Very well done!
- boing601pi9
  
  You made me create an account, just for the purpose of thanking you for this.
Teller

Would’ve added a nice touch to Jeff Spicoli’s delivery.
http://twitter.com/zacharyjohnson Zachary John⚡on

An oldie but a goodie. I enjoyed this math pun in geometry class in 1995.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Oliver-Schmieding/100000452523362 Oliver Schmieding

derp corollary: if you deem it too complex to make the pizza, you have (minus a pie).
http://theladyfingers.blogspot.com/ Ladyfingers

Surely pi(z+z)a?
- voiceinthedistance
  
  I’m no math genius, but that’s what I was thinking as well.
- OriGuy
  
  No, the diagram assumes a pizza of uniform thickness, which is a cylinder. The formula for the volume of a cylinder is V=pi*r*r*h. If you replace r with z and h with a, you get pi*z*z*a. I’m too lazy to put in the html for pi and superscripts, and they might not work anyway.
  - http://theladyfingers.blogspot.com/ Ladyfingers
    
    D’oh! I confused circumference with area!
    - Antinous / Moderator
      
      That’s what she said?
      - http://theladyfingers.blogspot.com/ Ladyfingers
        
        Unlikely, her mouth was full.
      - thatbob
        
        …of delicious pizza, no doubt.
http://twitter.com/digitalArtform Joseph Francis

unfortunately…

http://www.flickr.com/photos/digitalartform/4053028031/
http://profiles.google.com/blainekyle Blaine Evans

This is amusing, but it’s kind of cheating to assign new letters to variables which already have commonly accepted designations, especially considering that one of those new assignments belongs to the other variable involved. Radius, of course, should be “r,” and depth “z.” Therefore, Volume= pi·r·r·z.

This is why I believe we should start calling pizzas prrzs.
voiceinthedistance

Pee-cha.

http://youtu.be/KiLA6Bk_ivs
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SWG6CXEZDAVCACTJFMMYJPKEAI Ted

to quote Jay from Jay And Silent Bob Strike Back “what are you bitches babbling about?” (obviously I’m NOT a math person!)
http://joshuagoodwin.com Josué

pi.z².a also works, since z and 2 look alike.