Definitions by Numerati
Mathematician
A traditionally white male chauvinist with a high IQ but low EQ, who is often stereotyped as someone who is likely to remain single, and if he ever gets married, the odds of his getting separated or divorced are pretty high, because his proofs take priority over people and pets.
True or False: Mathematicians tend to become suspicious, schizophrenic, or suicidal (or all three) as they age.
Mathematician by Numerati July 2, 2024
PIAnon
The numerological or paranormal equivalent of QAnon. A group of fanatical geeks, fake or not, who make all kinds of conspiratorial claims about the irrational or transcendental number π, which often leads both mathematicians and math educators in red-pilled states to take up arms to fight them.
According to PIAnon, felon Trump had promised some of his billionaire “evangelical” donors that he’d restore the value of π to its inferred biblical value of 3, which is based on the measurements used to build King Solomon’s bronze reservoir, which rested on the backs of a dozen oxen—and students and teachers in Christian schools would also be allowed to approximate the value of pi to its sacred value, if they so wished.
Pi Therapy
When exposure to, or meditation on, the number π has the potential of bringing mental, emotional, or spiritual benefits to the practitioner, even those who pride themselves of not being a “math person.”
Like maggot therapy, pi therapy is inexpensively or therapeutically effective in soothing the oft-stressed geeky mind, which is often inundated with misinformation or disinformation coming from all angles of the information superhighway.
Pi Therapy by Numerati July 1, 2024
Bitcoin
A digital asset that has gained currency in decentralized Ponzi schemes, which makes it virtually impossible to catch the bad actors (criminals, hackers, money launderers, drug & human traffickers, …); it also serves as safe virtual money to protect the wealth of those who live in developing countries beset with hyperinflation.
Once dubbed an “index of money laundering,” bitcoin is often confused with blockchain, which is a system of recording information that is almost impossible to change or forge.
The Bitcoinization of Singapore Math
When Bitcoin becomes not only the currency of choice among math educators and homeschoolers worldwide when ordering math books from the “fine” city online, but is also popular among an increasing number of local math authors who prefer their royalty to be paid in crypto.
The bitcoinization of Singapore math has propelled the city-state to lead the way in blockchain technology and math education, much to the envy of math educators around the globe.
The Bitcoinization of Singapore Math by Numerati March 21, 2024
The Trumpification of Singapore Math
When uninhibited math educators in the “fine” city of Singapore have started posing word problems that use rogue characters who exhibit the idiocies and idiosyncrasies of Mr. Pinocchio and his team of morally corrupt lawmakers and semi-innumerate advisors.
The Trumpification of Singapore math has sprung a dozen-odd politically incorrect titles that aim to hone students’ and parents’ critical thinking skills in mathematics.
The Trumpification of Singapore Math by Numerati March 20, 2024