It's All Just Partial Derivatives?

The perfect academic hierarchy in four panels! Mathematicians live in a world of absolutes—triangles are triangles, no exceptions. Scientists embrace probability distributions because nature rarely gives straight answers. Engineers are busy building rockets to reach places we haven't gone yet. But bioengineers? They're creating unholy dinosaur-snake hybrids that evolution wisely avoided. It's the perfect progression from theoretical purity to "just because we can doesn't mean we should" mad science. The bioengineers' gleeful expression says it all—creating monsters is way more fun than proving theorems!

The eternal struggle of 0.999... vs 1. Patrick happily agrees there's an infinite list of numbers approaching 1, but immediately rejects that 0.999... equals 1. Classic mathematician's nightmare. The proof that 0.999... = 1 is mathematically sound, yet somehow feels wrong in our finite brains. Like trying to convince your calculator that dividing by zero isn't just being dramatic. Some mathematical truths simply refuse to be intuitive, no matter how many PhD students cry about it.

The cat's face of pure existential dread is exactly how math students look when they realize an "ordinary" differential equation is anything but ordinary! First you peek inside, then BAM—you're drowning in integration techniques that make calculus look like kindergarten arithmetic. The professor says "just solve it" while your brain cells are having a collective meltdown faster than an unstable isotope. That cat has seen things... terrible, mathematical things.

The evolution of music lyrics showcases some... interesting mathematical developments! In 1969, we had "One and one and one is three" (which is clearly not how addition works, but hey, artistic license). Fast forward to 2017, and we've got "Two plus two is four, minus one that's three, quick maths" - which is, you know, ACTUALLY CORRECT! 🤯 Who would've thought that after 50 years, popular music would finally discover basic arithmetic? Next up in 2050: song lyrics about differential equations and non-Euclidean geometry! Can't wait for those sick calculus beats to drop!

From cow to sphere to donut. The natural progression of scientific abstraction. In reality, we have a standard dairy cow. Physics simplifies it to a spherical cow with uniform density (because physicists can't be bothered with anatomical details when calculating gravitational fields). Then mathematics takes it further with a topological transformation into a torus—because in topology, a coffee mug and a donut are identical. Seven years of graduate school just to learn that everything is either a point, a sphere, or a donut with various numbers of holes.

The mathematical pun here is absolutely illogical ! On the left, we have the famous Euler's identity (e iπ + 1 = 0), one of the most beautiful equations in mathematics. On the right is the "mirror universe" version with negative iπ. It's basically the Star Trek universe's evil twin of mathematical formulas! What makes this brilliant is that both equations are actually mathematically equivalent! e -iπ = e iπ * = 1/e iπ = -1, so e -iπ + 1 = 0 still holds true. The beard doesn't change the math, but it definitely adds dramatic flair to the complex plane!