When math geeks tell others that they eat or use zero animal products like honey, seafood, egg and diary, fish, and meat—named after Pythagoras, the Greek vegetarian mathematician-turned-numerologist.
Alt-right Trumpists and QAnonists never fail to remind each other that Adolf Hitler adhered strictly to a Pythagorean diet during his years-old tyrannical rule, unlike their Insurrectionist-in-Chief boss, who occasionally craves for junk food.
by MathPlus March 05, 2021
Mathematicians’ hypotheses or theorems on the number π that grace the pages of gay math journals, which are clandestinely or covertly circulated to protect the authors from getting fired, especially if they work for a conservative college or faculty that doesn’t condone unnatural relationships.
Due to recurring prejudices against them, a number of first-rate minds decide not to submit their pink pi results to oft-anti-LGBT+ reputable math journals, thus reducing their chances of securing tenure—they think that the criteria for career promotion shouldn’t be influenced by sexual orientation.
by MathPlus October 17, 2021
Regularly contributing entries with a mathematical flavor to make up for the dearth of math words or terms on Urban Dictionary, which represent a drop in a sea of obscene, racist, and irreligious vocabulary.
Ian is a serial math contributor to Urban Dictionary, with six hundred-odd entries so far—indeed, he's urbanly mathematical, or maybe just "mathematically wordy," to say the least.
by MathPlus March 02, 2017
When vaccine manufacturers are distributing Covid-19 vaccine booster shots to the rich and selfish countries, while paying lip service to the poor and corrupt nations, which depend mostly on donation from countries guilty of practicing vaccine diplomacy.
Is administering Covid-19 vaccine boosters “unjust” and “unfair” when only 7% of the population of Africa has received a dose, compared to more than 50% of the populations from other continents? How could selling these immoral shots to wealthy countries while ignoring the oft-rogue and dictatorial nations help to stop the pandemic globally?
by MathPlus October 13, 2021
FOMO 2.0, which is about unhealthy or selfish fear and insufficiency. A Hokkien word for the oft-irrational fear of not getting enough or of losing out to others.
Members of the public in Singapore had to wait until February to get hold of the 2021 primary one math textbooks and workbooks, which is based on the new MOE syllabus, because a number of kiasu tuition center owners had called the bookstores in December to reserve dozens of these new titles, leaving zero copies for those who couldn’t buy them from school bookshops.
by MathPlus February 28, 2021
When governments want to discreetly keep a record of “uncooperative” or “selfish” citizens and residents who refuse to be vaccinated against coronavirus, thus hindering their goal for the population to attain herd immunity.
Countries that have set up the C register are mum what they’d do to those vaccine free riders, other than hinting that they’d not expect to be treated the same as those who have come forward to be inoculated in spite of potential health risks.
by MathPlus February 23, 2021
When a math educator is thrilled to discover that some his fellow mathematical brethren are also gay—what a relief for him to stop feeling like an odd in a sea of evens.
Since Dave experienced his gay moment in mathematics last summer, he's been invited by his fellow mathematicians to speak at their clandestinely held "Gay Topology" conference.
by MathPlus March 28, 2017