Is Mathematics Invented Or Discovered?

The irony is delicious. Someone arranged 17 identical rants about optimal square packing into what is clearly a sub-optimal arrangement. It's mathematical meta-humor at its finest—complaining about a mathematical problem while creating another one. The square packing problem is actually a serious area of computational geometry where researchers try to find the most efficient way to arrange squares in a bounded region. Clearly, whoever created this meme has demonstrated that human rage arranges less efficiently than squares. Their frustration has been optimally packed, however.

That moment when you're staring at a differential equation and suddenly think, "What if the derivative of x is just 1/x?" Then you remember it's actually ln(x). Classic case of mathematical wishful thinking. Every calculus student has had this fleeting moment of "simplification genius" before reality crashes back in. The beauty of mathematics is that it doesn't care about your convenience.

The mathematical equivalent of parental terror! Just as getting your full name shouted means you're in deep trouble, the binomial expression (x+y)ⁿ suddenly realizes it's about to face its expanded form with all those summations and choose notations. That innocent little (x+y)ⁿ thought it could live a simple, compact life, but nope—it's being called out by its formal mathematical identity! Every math student who's ever had to expand these expressions manually knows that feeling of impending doom. The binomial theorem doesn't just expand expressions—it expands your workload exponentially!

Those beautiful kinematic equations at the top? They only work when acceleration is constant. The moment your acceleration changes with time, those elegant formulas become useless scrap paper. Physics students everywhere know that feeling when their professor says "now let's consider non-constant acceleration" and suddenly you're drowning in calculus. Just like Howard Stark, we're all limited by the technology of our time—except in this case, the technology is our own mathematical toolkit that falls apart the second reality gets complicated.

Ever stared at a math problem for hours and just KNEW the answer but couldn't get there? That's the Generalized Doakes Theorem in action! 😂 This mathematical masterpiece shows that the integral of disappointment equals the integral of partial disappointment. The faces are basically every mathematician's journey from "I've got this!" to "What have I done with my life?" Pure genius for anyone who's ever written "proof left as an exercise for the reader" when they actually had no clue how to finish it!

Congratulations! With an IQ of 80 and being smarter than a whopping 91 people out of 1000, you're perfectly qualified for a promising career in... statistical interpretation! 🏆 The meme brilliantly captures the mathematical tragedy of someone who doesn't realize that being in the "top 90.88%" actually means they're in the bottom 9.12% of the population. Yet they're somehow celebrating being smarter than just 91 people in a room of 1000. With these impressive credentials, might I suggest a career in creating online IQ tests? You'd fit right in with the people who designed this one! Or perhaps politics, where understanding numbers is clearly optional.