It's All Just Partial Derivatives?

The calculus betrayal is real! Left side shows differentiation as this beautiful, organized flowchart where you just apply some rules and—boom—you're done. Meanwhile, integration is this chaotic nightmare maze that eventually leads to "BURN THE EVIDENCE" and desperate "PHONE CALLS TO MATHEMATICIANS." Every math student knows this pain. Differentiation: "Here's your answer, have a nice day!" Integration: "What's a Bessel function? Should I install Mathematica? Is this partial fractions or some Riemann voodoo?" No wonder we all tried working backwards from the multiple choice answers on exams! Pro tip: if your integration strategy includes "burn the evidence," you're doing authentic mathematics.

Physics professors everywhere are having palpitations right now. The clown labeled "the side of a triangle which I named 'c'" is trying to hide behind soldiers labeled "the speed of light." This is a glorious dimensional disaster! In physics, 'c' represents the speed of light (299,792,458 meters per second), while in geometry, 'c' often labels a triangle side. Using the same symbol for completely different quantities with incompatible dimensions is the mathematical equivalent of putting pineapple on pizza – technically possible but deeply unsettling to purists. This is why physicists wake up screaming at 2 AM thinking about undergrads turning in homework where distance equals velocity.

Physics education in a nutshell! First day: "Here's Newton's Second Law, F=ma, simple right?" Next week: "So those partial derivatives of velocity with respect to cylindrical coordinates are just the same thing, but for fluids moving in 3D space with pressure gradients and viscosity terms!" The Navier-Stokes equations are basically Newton's Second Law after it went through puberty, got a PhD, and developed an identity crisis. They're mathematically terrifying but fundamentally just describing how force affects motion in fluids. Classic engineering move - take something elegant and make it look like you're summoning a mathematical demon.

The meme brilliantly spoofs the International System of Units (SI) by adding a fictional "wumbo" unit - a direct reference to SpongeBob SquarePants where Patrick explains "I wumbo, you wumbo, he/she/we wumbo." What makes this truly nerdy is how meticulously it mimics a legitimate Wikipedia table of SI base units, complete with proper formatting, hyperlinks, and mathematical notation. The definition that "wumbo is the same as a metre, except multiplied by the Wumbo constant, which is 2" is pure scientific satire gold. The fabricated historical narrative about it being "added then removed in 2019" perfectly parodies how actual scientific standards evolve. For measurement nerds, this is the equivalent of finding a unicorn in your calibration handbook!

Ah, the eternal quest to make mathematical notation less horrifying! In the top panel, we have the standard factorial notation where 5! = 120. But our brave mathematician rejects this conventional approach with disgust. Instead, they propose the revolutionary "120? = 5" format in the bottom panel—essentially asking "what number, when factorialized, gives us 120?" It's the mathematical equivalent of answering a question with another question, which is precisely how I respond to undergraduate emails asking for extra credit. Just imagine the chaos in textbooks: "Solve for x: 3628800? = x". Pure mathematical anarchy. I'm sure the International Mathematical Union would have an absolute meltdown.

The elegant efficiency of scientific notation strikes again. Both booths display the same number (10,000), but one uses six characters (1*10^4) while the other uses just three (1e4). Mathematicians predictably flock to the shorter notation like grad students to free pizza. We've all been there—spending hours optimizing code just to save 8 bytes of memory. The true mark of mathematical sophistication isn't solving complex equations, it's writing them with the fewest possible keystrokes.