Short for mathematical enlightenment. That breakthrough thinking moment or insight you experience after trying to solve a seemingly unsolvable math problem.
Solving mathematical quickies is an inexpensive way to activating the oft-atrophied right part of the brain, which would increase the chances of experiencing an aha!—when thinking laterally or even paradoxically often acts as a catalyst to finding the solution to an apparently wicked problem.
by MathPlus April 22, 2021
When math geeks are connected to each other by their shared love for arguably the most beautiful constant in mathematics: π’s beauty, ubiquity, and utility never fail to bring and bond them together.
Just as a number of white racists and supremacists are united by the xenophobic policies of Donald J. Trump, so a number of recreational mathematicians are drawn by the occurrence or presence of pi in the least unexpected places, who love telling the non-math people: “We are one in pi.”
by MathPlus December 13, 2020
When someone describes the math taught in Singapore schools as being too difficult to understand, or complains that young students are unhealthily exposed to an obscene number of brain-unfriendly math questions—“cheem” means “deep” in the Chinese dialect Hokkien.
Ahmad who could hardly understand Mr. Goon’s lessons told his parents: “Singapore math, so cheem. I gave up!”
by MathPlus May 15, 2021
Math word problems of yesteryear that condones white racism or supremacism, such as the ungodly relationship between masters and slaves, lords and peasants, or colonizers and savages.
An 1814 issue of “The Analyst” poses the following slavery math problem: “If out of a cargo of 600 slaves, 200 die during a passage of 6 weeks from Africa to the West Indies; how long must the passage be that one half the cargo may perish? Supposing the degree of mortality to be the same throughout the passage, that is, the number of deaths at any time to be proportional to the living at the same time.”
by MathPlus November 10, 2020
A math theorem whose real-life application may be worth at least a billion bucks—a revolutionary result that could propel the applied mathematician into mathematical fame or immortality.
The Riemann hypothesis is a potential mathematical unicorn , especially in the field of e-security—whoever proves it is guaranteed both fame and wealth.
by MathPlus August 19, 2017
The only name that has the power to save, to heal, and to bless—the Name that is above all other names that can set people free from evil spirits and bondages and restore broken relationships.
Jesus Christ gives birth to the Christian community—the only one that exists for the sake of non-members—whose aim is to bring in the lost sheep that are “outside” God’s Kingdom.
by MathPlus November 19, 2017
A unit of information equal to ten billion billion (or ten million trillion) bytes: 10¹⁹, or a 1 with 19 zeros at the end—sometimes known as 10 giga-gigabyte (10 × 10⁹ × 10⁹), and written as 1 🦠B.
If all of earthlings’ talks and tweets about Donald J. Trump’s lies and white lies while he was at the White House were to be made available online, would a coronabyte suffice to storing them?
by MathPlus August 02, 2021