Pi = 3: The Mathematician's Nightmare

The six-step lifecycle of mathematical discovery is painfully accurate! From the initial "what if" moment to mathematicians having existential meltdowns over proofs that challenge their worldview. What makes this so brilliant is how it captures the bizarre reality that even in mathematics—supposedly the most objective field—progress often happens through stubborn resistance, decades-long feuds, and deathbed grudges. Fermat's Last Theorem took 358 years to solve, and I'm convinced half that time was just Step 2: "IMPOSSIBLE! INSANE!" And that final panel? Pure gold. Nothing quite like watching a professor's soul leave their body when students don't grasp a concept they've dedicated their life to understanding. The mathematical circle of life continues!

The mathematical equivalent of a cold open. Nothing says "I'm socially inept" quite like leading with divisibility properties of large prime numbers at happy hour. The number 100,000,001 is actually divisible by 17 (it equals 5,882,353 × 17), making this both mathematically correct and conversationally catastrophic. That's the kind of small talk that makes bartenders consider career changes.

The eternal mathematical paradox that haunts physics students everywhere! d/dt is simultaneously an operator (it tells you to take the derivative with respect to time) AND can be treated as a fraction when applying the chain rule. Physics professors love to switch between these interpretations mid-equation without warning, leaving students questioning their sanity. It's like Schrödinger's notation - both a fraction and not a fraction until a physicist needs to solve a particular problem!

Computer Science textbooks: causing emotional damage since forever! 😭 The juxtaposition between wanting a tearjerker novel and getting recommended a programming textbook is *chef's kiss* perfect. Anyone who's stayed up until 3 AM debugging code knows that Data Structures and Algorithms can indeed make you sob uncontrollably. Nothing says "existential crisis" quite like trying to implement a balanced binary search tree while questioning all your life choices! Trust me, that book has made more students cry than any Nicholas Sparks novel ever could.

Statistical mechanics got so brutal that this poor student had to livestream their suffering! 😂 Those partition functions and Boltzmann distributions aren't calculating themselves. Notice how they've cleverly renamed it "Quantum Sadistical Mechanics" - because nothing says "I'm having a mental breakdown" quite like deriving entropy equations while a leaf backdrop tries to provide some semblance of peace. The perfect juxtaposition of nature's tranquility and the chaos of thermodynamic equations. Only two people watching the stream too - probably the professor and that one overachiever who finished the homework three weeks ago.

Pure mathematicians would rather draw 25 UNO cards than admit statistics has any mathematical legitimacy. The eternal academic feud continues! These are the same folks who spend decades proving theorems nobody asked for, but heaven forbid they acknowledge the field that actually helps scientists interpret real data. Next thing you know, they'll be claiming applied math is just "physics with extra steps." The mathematical hierarchy is more rigid than a perfectly straight line—and twice as imaginary.