MathPlus's definitions

Diversity

A politically correct word that means that white privilege ought to take a back seat, although it is unlikely to happen as long as white racists and supremacists are allowed to roam the White House, the judiciary, the police, or the stock exchange.

Lots of white CEOs, governors, and mayors talk powerfully about diversity, but their walks seldom follow their talks.

by MathPlus March 4, 2021

Pythagorean Diet

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 4, 2021

Bolsonaro Virus

The Brazilian strand of Trumpvirus, which is deadlier than the coronavirus itself—named after President Jair Bolsonaro, whose fake leadership and ineptitude had failed to contain the pandemic crisis, which he continues to downplay in spite of the rising death toll.

With more than a quarter million corona deaths, which is the second-highest number of fatalities in the world after the US, Brazil is fighting two viruses: the coronavirus and Bolsonaro virus.

by MathPlus March 5, 2021

Covid Dreams

When mixed feelings or morbid musings about the coronavirus pandemic are abstractly or creatively depicted through computer art.

Digital artists think that covid dreams could serve as a form of therapeutic art for those who are grieving for their loved ones who lost their lives to the coronavirus.

by MathPlus March 5, 2021

Predatory Math

When math educators or publishers turn things around, from being a prey to a predator, by outwitting their competitors, because they know what they have to do to be better than them.

To stand out from the crowd, Jeff embraces the predatory math mindset to outsmart the competition, which were left licking their wounds.

by MathPlus March 7, 2021

Bat

A nocturnal creature that continues to receive bad press since the coronavirus pandemic hit the planet, because it was blamed for unprovenly transmitting the virus to humans.

After a video showing a Chinese woman consuming bat soup (which was shot in Palau, and not in China, many years before the Covid-19 outbreak) was virally circulated, the bat has since become the world’s most notorious mammal.

by MathPlus March 8, 2021

Tabloid Math

Juicy talks in mathematical circles on who are working on which projects or proofs, or who have been offered tenure, especially among the “office politicians” who were unprovenly promoted based on their close or intimate relationship with the boss rather than on their published papers and teaching awards.

Stabbing each other on the back, bitching about promoted or demoted fellow colleagues, and the like are part and parcel of tabloid math conversation, which preoccupies the minds of thousands of frustrated or marginalized mathematicians at lunchtime.

by MathPlus March 8, 2021