Numerati's definitions
When the number π is hinting to math educators worldwide to turn the wealth of wisdom about her, which has been unearthed over the centuries by thousands of men and women of mathematics, to launch or produce “new” math products that would help them generate a new or rich source of income.
Mathepreneur Ian has identified a few game-changing ideas that have laid hidden in quiet cul-de-sacs in both academia and in publishing houses—he’s doing nothing new but answering to pi calling.
by Numerati January 14, 2025
Get the Pi Callingmug. A symbol-minded person who spends most of his waking hours thinking how to solve the value(s) of x in all kinds of equations, or the range of the values of x in inequalities (or inequations).
Last Christmas, Pastor Jonah mistook an xtremist for the world’s most dangerous fellow on social media, who also happens to be the world’s richest man.
by Numerati October 8, 2024
Get the xtremistmug. When you are mathematically tickled why you have been experiencing an aha! on or about the number π pretty frequently recently—for no logical or valid reasons, it is as if pi seems to be infatuated with you.
Besides coming up with a few sexy proofs on some pi-related theorems, I spotted my birthdate and my cellphone number 31,415 digits apart among the first ten thousand digits in the decimal number pi. Sounds like a sign from on high that makes me wonder: “Does Pi love me?”
by Numerati November 5, 2023
Get the Does Pi Love Me?mug. The fuzzy-and-funny logic used by female digital natives (who proudly boast about not being born or blessed with the “math gene”) to rationalize why they are getting a pretty good deal as far as their time, money, and convenience are concerned, compared to those who think or act differently from them.
“Girl math” may debatably be likened to the female equivalent of Yogi-isms or Yogi Berra’s “aphorisms.”
by Numerati October 7, 2023
Get the Girl Mathmug. One day in a week when you abstain from any mathematical activity—no preparing, no problem solving or posing, no marking—to give the left part of your brain a day off, while inviting the right part to take over.
Your mathematical sabbath could prove to be the most productive day of the week, as you let your logical mind recover and reenergize from a hectic week.
by Numerati August 16, 2023
Get the Mathematical Sabbathmug. The minimum number of times a company’s profitability could grow, because its employees’ career pathways are T-shaped (The Anything Workforce)—the opposite of an I-shaped (One Thing Workforce), which is siloed, rigid, and fixed.
With Trump’s yo-yo tariffs and threats vis-à-vis allies, the chances of witnessing more πX American companies emerging around the world in coming years look pretty slim.
by Numerati July 5, 2025
Get the πXmug. A digital asset that has gained currency in decentralized Ponzi schemes, which makes it virtually impossible to catch the bad actors (criminals, hackers, money launderers, drug & human traffickers, …); it also serves as safe virtual money to protect the wealth of those who live in developing countries beset with hyperinflation.
Once dubbed an “index of money laundering,” bitcoin is often confused with blockchain, which is a system of recording information that is almost impossible to change or forge.
by Numerati June 28, 2024
Get the Bitcoinmug.