The commandment by anti-mask and anti-vaccine clergy to their oft-uncritical or unsuspecting evangelical congregations, who trust their pastors more than their doctors.
Some church leaders under the cover of religion or viral protection would push their political agenda on their members, by warning them: “Don't trust Covid-19 vaccines.”
by MathPlus April 17, 2021

A recipient of the postgraduate computer science scholarship, offered by the Chinese tech Alibaba, which is notorious for condoning fake and pirated goods on its e-commerce site—one who could be recruited as a “rogue hacker” or cyber terrorist for the Chinese Communist Party.
As a recent Alibaba graduate from Singapore, Jack couldn’t turn down the million-dollar job offer to work for one of Alibaba’s security departments, where he’s unspokenly expected to hack foreign IT systems to steal intelligence information for China’s military.
by MathPlus September 04, 2018

The common value of π covertly used by the LGBT+ mathematical community, which appears to change based on geography for nonobvious reasons.
Statistician Jerry is seeking a “rainbow grant” from some tech companies to determine why queer pi differs in different counties or countries.
by MathPlus October 15, 2021

Shortcuts that short-circuit hours of learning and practicing formal or traditional problem-solving methods to solving certain types of math problems.
Instead of spending hundreds of hours mastering the basics of school algebra, mature students or working adults with no formal education could be taught some quick-and-kill Samurai math methods, such as the Sakamoto method and the Stack Model Method.
by MathPlus August 22, 2017

Read as “Covid-beta.” Also known as the B.1.351 or “Beta” variant. The South African variant, which has been detected in at least 40-odd countries, is believed to evade antibodies, thus making recovered infected people despite their existing immunity prone to reinfection.
Insufficient data cannot conclude whether Covid-β causes more severe illness than earlier versions of the coronavirus, or whether current vaccines may be less effective for this variant, which may also be transmitted faster.
by MathPlus August 30, 2021

Hearing: Your ears can listen to the musical digits of the seemingly random pattern of the decimal number π as they are being recited.
Smell: Your nose can scent the fragrance or sweet aroma of the digits of the transcendental number π.
Sight: Your mind’s eye can see at a glance the entire beautiful landscape of the real number π.
Taste: Your tongue can savor the different flavors of the digits of the sacred number π.
Touch: Your skin can feel the different sensations of the digits of the normal number π, when it is truncated to a certain number of significant figures.
Smell: Your nose can scent the fragrance or sweet aroma of the digits of the transcendental number π.
Sight: Your mind’s eye can see at a glance the entire beautiful landscape of the real number π.
Taste: Your tongue can savor the different flavors of the digits of the sacred number π.
Touch: Your skin can feel the different sensations of the digits of the normal number π, when it is truncated to a certain number of significant figures.
Guesstimate how many autistic people or idiot savants around the world could experience at least one of the five senses of pi.
by MathPlus September 19, 2021

Short for “Make America Greater Again, Make Americans Think Harder.” A 2024 slogan to Trumpublicans to make America numerate or quantitatively literate again, by not having Asian immigrants or naturalized Americans but white natives as mathletes to represent the USA at international olympiads.
Chanting his MAGA MATH mantra at rallies, Donald J. Trump promises his blue-collar supporters that only true-blue white Americans would be allowed to be part of the US math teams at all regional and international contests and competitions, and not alien mathletes or math imports.
by MathPlus June 05, 2021
