I like math, but might not know as much about it as some real math nuts.  I was reading the web comic XKCD, which has a lot of math jokes.  I read this comic titled e to the pi times i (language warning) which says if you take e to the power of π times [...]

This is actually a misconception. Most people assume it was the cat’s curiosity that killed it. This is not the case. It all comes from the story of Schrödinger’s cat. (answer bellow)
A cat is placed in a sealed box. Attached to the box is an apparatus containing a radioactive nucleus and a canister of poison [...]