The lie that an educated person needs to be versed in both probability and statistics, besides being fluent in applied arithmetic, to function confidently in life.
Unless they’re a math teacher or textbook writer, folks from most walks of life hardly need anything beyond grade four math to handle everyday numbers seamlessly—that they require higher math to succeed in life is nothing but mathematical bullshit.
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The Riemann hypothesis is a potential mathematical unicorn , especially in the field of e-security—whoever proves it is guaranteed both fame and wealth.
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Recipients of the Fields medal—the mathematical equivalent of the “Nobel Prize In Mathematics”—have a penchant for mathematical masochism in order to stand out from the crowd, because these “extreme mathematicians” know that “no pain, no gain.”
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Seeing her two boys struggle with the most disliked school subject evokes feelings of mathematica nostalgia in Mrs. Paul, who suffered from mathophobia when faced with brain-unfriendly word problems.
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Urban Dictionary remains the social platform of choice for mathematically irreverent writers, who just want to sexify or spice the most boring or disliked school subject for millions of students worldwide.
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Get the Mathematically Irreverent mug./máthimájikal/ adj. of or pertaining to or of the nature of a phenomenon that which can only be explained by a combination of mathematics and supernatural theory. Most commonly occurring in card games, such as euchre, poker, go-fish...etc.
Now fucking way, that was a mathemagical card on the river!
She had a mathemagical draw to win the go-fish game.
She had a mathemagical draw to win the go-fish game.
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