Fountain

Originally written for Dr. Jennifer Aaker & Naomi Bagdonas

In 1917, Marcel Duchamp walked into a hardware store. He walked out with a urinal. He flipped it upside down and named it Fountain.

Math is full of urinals. By which I mean full of things that are unpleasant:

But if we treat math the way Duchamp treated the urinal, we are left with a subject that is funny.