Tag: Mathematics

This two-panel comparison meme humorously highlights differences in consensus over mathematical notation. The top panel depicts a large group of formally dressed people seated calmly around a giant circular conference table, with the header text 'Mathematicians on the addition sign:' and the notation 'A+B' displayed in the center of the table, representing universal agreement on the standard notation for addition. The bottom panel shows a chaotic group of people engaged in a physical brawl in an outdoor sandy area, with the header text 'Mathematicians on the multiplication sign:' and multiple competing multiplication notations (A·B, A*B, A×B, AB, A(B)) overlaid on the fighting people, exaggerating the widespread disagreement between different STEM fields and mathematicians over which multiplication notation is the correct standard to use.

Mathematicians Agree On Addition Sign But Fight Over Multiplication Notations

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This is a single-panel meme. The top part has black text on a white background reading: first line "Biologists: Cells multiply by dividing", second line "Mathematicians:". Below the text is a widely recognized photo of a poorly made lion taxidermy with a lopsided, wide-eyed, confused and awkwardly amused expression, positioned in front of dark window blinds. The joke plays on a terminology contradiction: in biology, cell division is the process that makes the total number of cells multiply (increase in count), but for mathematicians, "multiplying by dividing" is an oxymoron, as multiply and divide are opposite arithmetic operations, so the confused lion represents the mathematician's reaction to this phrasing.

Mathematicians confused by biologists saying cells multiply by dividing

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This is a single panel meme using a historic black and white portrait of renowned Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan, who was widely known for publishing groundbreaking mathematical theorems and results without including full formal proof steps. The text below the portrait jokes that Ramanujan intentionally omitted proof steps as a kind gesture to modern students, so they cannot be marked down for skipping a proof step that was never written down in his original work. The joke references the common student experience of losing points in math classes for failing to show every step of a proof on assignments or exams.

Ramanujan Skipped Proofs To Save Your GPA

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This single-panel STEM humor meme features a complex infinite series formula for calculating 1/π, attributed to mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan, at the top. On the left below the formula is a cartoon of an enraged, glasses-wearing Wojak/soyjak character shouting the question 'Source?'. On the right is a black and white portrait of Srinivasa Ramanujan, paired with the text 'It was revealed to me in a dream' below his photo. The joke references Ramanujan's real-life habit of claiming many of his revolutionary mathematical insights were gifted to him in dreams by his family deity, poking fun at the common academic and internet culture demand for cited sources for all claims, even those that came from unconventional origins.

Ramanujan Reveals Pi Formula In A Dream Meme

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