Math Memes

Math memes, anecdotes, theorems, formulae, and others

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Happy π day! I’m off to drop a bunch of needles on the ground #PiDay

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how is the Johnson-Lindenstrauss Lemma only a lemma?!

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Gauss’ construction of the regular heptadecagon is the most impressive result in mathematics history. we are not arguing about this

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*if mathematicians did “pro bono” work by teaching in elementary schools*

Principal: today you’re teaching kindergarten. just go over 1 + 1 = 2 and stuff like that

Mathematician: isn’t that pretty advanced for them?

Principal: ...

Mathematician:

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it’s atrocious how textbooks just take the proof of the Jordan Curve Theorem for granted. it’s never even left as an exercise. do the work authors, grind it out. i don’t pay springer to spew theorem statements at me. if you can’t prove it, don’t use it

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how do people believe that there are “no patterns in pi” when the Bailey-Borwein-Plouffe formula yields a spigot algorithm for its nth hexadecimal digit? smh

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i love how the mathematical community just agreed that no one can confidently pronounce “Szökefalvi” and named the theorem “Sz.-Nagy’s Dilation Theorem” instead

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Apery is going to be so angry (wherever he is) when someone explicitly calculates ζ(3) and the number gets named after them instead

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“it’s really dry out today”

“how dry is it?”

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let’s be honest, has anyone ACTUALLY read Baby Rudin in full? or did you just stop at the measure theory chapter?

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imagine how many students would fail out of college if everytime they needed to make a change of variables, they had to derive the inverse function theorem from scratch

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“bill gates dropped out of college”. well yeah, after passing Harvard Math 55 lol

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Q in SO(n): come over

U in O(n): i can’t, detU = -1

Q: you can see my Springer book collection

U: *allows complex entries*

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me: hey you’re gonna need a lot of security guards for your art gallery
them: nah, i’ll just make all the walls mirrors
the art gallery:

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“We found a neural network that can calculate the roots of a polynomial!”
The polynomial:

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Me: Oh come on, you know how bad at lying I am! If I lied, you could tell in a second Also me:

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People really out here thinking that the Lecun-Musk feud is more significant than the Perelman-Yau war

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I can’t imagine how many times Stefan Banach and Alfred Tarski double-checked their work before publishing

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Do you have any idea how easy life would be if all matrices were normal