691 definitions by MathPlus
Arguably the most notorious problem in the history of mathematics: mathematicians’ secret desire to solve it to achieve mathematical fame and immortality had saved a few lives, whose suicidal minds were so absorbed in their proofs that they forgot to end their lives prematurely.
A generalized version of the Pythagorean theorem, the Fermat’s Last Theorem was finally put to rest by Prof. Wiles, after an error was exposed in the first proof he unveiled to the mathematical brethren.
by MathPlus February 13, 2018
The art of predicting someone’s future from the number of infections or deaths in a given community or country at a given time, and their birth date.
Fortunetellers in some remote parts of Asia are profiting from coviderology, by advising gullible clients whether or not they should travel hundreds of miles to the nearest city to get vaccinated.
by MathPlus May 4, 2021
A humanoid robot that unprovenly supplies the daily random numbers of infections and deaths via the Ministry of Health (MOH) to the mainstream media, especially now that the majority of the population view each infection as a mere statistic, because it no longer matters to them whether it is a few tens or a few ten thousands.
Since Singapore started registering daily five-digit infections, to give locals the illusion that the infections data are meticulously collected from thousands of doctors islandwide, and to cut down on manpower, the authorities had apparently tasked a Singapore covidoid to spy on the population’s social media posts and tweets and pseudo-encrypted SMSes to formulate a daily figure on both infection and mortality cases.
by MathPlus March 7, 2022
A Christmas party that was attended by some invited politicians and civil servants in a government building, when the country was under a lockdown, or under strict Covid rules—they needed to bring along their own spirits and snacks to avoid any suspicion of breaking the rules they had enacted for the nation to follow, if they were not attending the event virtually.
by MathPlus December 18, 2021
An irrational fear of the irrational number pi, or a repulsion at the sight or sound of the symbol π, which some fringe psychologists suspect to be hereditary, because the victim was presumably not born with the “mathematical gene.”
Sufferers of piophobia argue that they’d be exempted from school math, because they’re allergic to all things numerical or symbolic.
by MathPlus November 5, 2020