A new year term used by someone (who doesn’t approve of China’s internal politics and its foreign policy in bribing or bullying many poor or developing natural resources-rich countries) to their Chinese friends, foes, or fiends rather than using “Chinese New Year.”
If you want to be in the good books of the Chinese communists or nationalists, use “Chinese Lunar New Year,” not the arguably disrespectful “Lunar New Year” or the highly disparaging “Korean Lunar New Year” to infuriate them.
by Fasters January 30, 2023
A shelf that displays your math memorabilia (abacuses, slide rules, polygonal stamps, math-related postcards, 3D wooden puzzles, topology toys, …) that are likely to be a topic of conversation as friends and strangers visit your home.
Ian’s mathematical shrine is made up of origami polyhedrons, magic card tricks, Napier’s rods, vintage calculators and clocks, and Lilliputian math books.
by Fasters February 25, 2022
A suggested substitute among geeks for “Anon.”—an abbreviation for “Anonymous”—where the letter X stands for an apparently unknown source.
Guesstimate how many symbol-minded people worldwide would prefer Xnon to Anon., by pretending not to know the source of their plagiarized works.
by Fasters May 13, 2022
When movies on math, or those that depict the odd behaviours of oft-mad mathematicians or idiot-savants, never fail to mention the number π and some of its magical properties.
With pi being part of pop culture, it’s not surprising to hear mathophobic actors in Hollywood complain about reel pi, as it reminds them of their bad experiences of school math, especially if they’d flunked the subject several times prior to making it big in the entertainment industry.
by Fasters May 30, 2022
Also known as the “Trump Old Party” (TOP). A far-right subgroup of the GOP, which may be likened to a political equivalent of Jehovah’s Witnesses. White nationalists who misuse Christianity to reach out to undecided or apathetic voters, by warning them to stay away from socialist or alt-left politicians who support abortion, same-sex marriages, illegal immigration, and multiculturalism.
Guesstimate how many ultra-MAGA patriots in red-pilled states who just hate being called “Trump’s Witnesses.”
by Fasters January 14, 2023
When a postmodern artist uses their own blood or the blood of animals as paint to draw the irrational number π, or to take part in a pi project as part of a math-and-art exhibition.
An artist from the Philippines told the journalist who interviewed him that his bloody pi paintings, which symbolizes his DNA in art, aren't for sale, but the public could view them at his private gallery.
by Fasters December 22, 2022
The mathematical equivalent of thinking like a child, who uniquely looks at the world imaginatively, playfully, or creatively, much to the delight of others who might even experience an aha! moment from their spontaneous response or behavior.
If mathematical constants like e and 𝛷 were to think like π, by freely and consciously promoting themselves regularly, there is no reason that they couldn’t be as popular and interesting as the beloved beautiful pi.
by Fasters December 26, 2021