Definitions by Fasters

Pi Lockdown 

When the frequency of the number π gracing the pages of reputable math journals took a dive during the pandemic, when both male and female mathematicians and math educators worldwide, working from home, felt half-productive or fell sick from Covid-19.

Guesstimate how many pure mathematicians globally had some mental health issues during the pi lockdown in 2020–2021.

Pi Lockdown by Fasters January 15, 2022

Pi Syndrome 

Someone who is prone to coining new words or phrases on or about the number π once their mind’s eye leads them to see how an apparently unrelated idea or concept within or outside math could be linked to the most famous constant in mathematics.

While writing the manuscript for “Never Write a Math Book Without π,” Ian has been struck with pi syndrome since the start of the pandemic.

Pi Syndrome by Fasters January 15, 2022

Pirrot 

A parrot that has been trained to recite the first few digits of the decimal number π—the more digits they can regurgitate, the dearer they are.

A pet shop is offering a π% discount on Pi Day for a pirrot priced at US$314.15.

Pirrot by Fasters January 14, 2022

Pi 3:14 

The banned Book of Pi, chapter 3, verse 14, where the prophet wrote: “I have seen and experienced all beautiful, irrational, imaginary, metamathematical, transcendental, and sacred things about the number π under the sun; all of them are man-made and meaningless, a chasing after the next mathematical shiny object.”

Does Pi 3:14 sound like a mathematical equivalent of Ecclesiastes 1:14, where King Solomon with all his wisdom and wealth concluded that all is vanity?

Pi 3:14 by Fasters January 13, 2022

Toilet Pi 

When you use the free time while doing your business to practice memorizing the digits of the decimal number π.

As a criterion to joining his local Pi Club, which requires all members to be able to recite the first hundred digits of π, Paul is using his precious toilet pi moments to getting closer to being a pi member.

Toilet Pi by Fasters January 12, 2022

Toilet Math

A math joke book you pick up in the bathroom to destress yourself every time you do your business, when your giggling or laughing could help cover up the sound of your relatively loud farting.

Fred likes to amuse his girlfriends with the toilet math jokes he still recalls, when he’s killing two birds with a stone.

Toilet Math by Fasters January 12, 2022

Pithagoras

A misspelled or corrupt version of Pythagoras, the Greek vegan mathematician-turned-numerologist, who wouldn’t hesitate to expel, ostracize, or even murder his yes-students should they dare to criticize or challenge his mathematical gospel that everything could be expressed as a ratio of whole numbers.

Those against Greek culture or heritage would deliberately write “Pithagoras” whenever they needed to cite or quote the most famous theorem in mathematics.

Pithagoras by Fasters January 3, 2022