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When indulging in some math-related activity or project could serve as a powerful wellness practice, be it reading a pop or recreational math book, or solving some math puzzles or trickies, or philosophizing about simple or abstract math concepts or proofs.
Prescribing matherapy to her patients—even to those who’d had a negative experience of school math, or who’d called themselves a “nonmath person”—Dr. Janice is encouraged by their high healing success rate—no side effects as a result of zero prescription of medication and pseudoscientific therapies.
by Numerati March 30, 2025
Get the Matherapymug. When the number π is used to draw attention to herself through posters, banners, and graffiti in public places, because these oft-powerful images can influence or change people’s minds about the mathematical constant.
Unlike other noteworthy but struggling constants like e and 𝜙, π has continually succeeded to be part of popular culture, because she believes that “pi as propaganda” is an effective marketing tool to remain relevant in the minds of both math and nonmath people.
by Numerati November 23, 2024
Get the Pi as Propagandamug. The source that gives rise to art or contributes to a painting—unlike a dimensionless point with no length, area, or depth, a tiny dot still has an area.
A point may be likened to an idealized dot, which has been reduced to what mathematicians call an “infinitesimal.”
by Numerati November 24, 2023
Get the Dotmug. 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.
by Numerati July 2, 2024
Get the PIAnonmug. A mélange or rojak of the best math methodologies and pedagogies from the East and the West, which has given local students in the “fine” city of Singapore an asymmetric or unfair advantage over their peers overseas—when even their weaker students fare better than the global average.
Singapore Math has sprung up a cottage industry in math education, as millions of homeschoolers worldwide realized that wallet-friendly, brain-unfriendly math titles have helped their children hone their problem-solving skills.
by Numerati December 15, 2024
Get the Singapore Mathmug. When π, the world’s most arguably beloved or beautiful mathematical constant, weighs the pros and cons of revealing too little or too much about herself in order to maximize her universal appeal, while minimizing any negative publicity or fallout, in popular culture.
With fierce fellow competitors like e and 𝜙 watching her every move to outwit her, it’s no surprise that π is perpetually paranoid—pi calculus remains a necessary evil for her to maintain her competitive edge.
by Numerati December 12, 2024
Get the Pi Calculusmug. 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.
by Numerati July 1, 2024
Get the Pi Therapymug.