Reddit Experts Teaching Math Majors

When the limit approaches zero, you better approach the exit! The kid wearing "x=0" is being chased by "lim x→0" because in calculus, that's literally what limits do - they chase values as they approach a specific point. The sudden sprint in the bottom panels shows what happens when mathematics gets too personal. Next time your calculus professor says "as x approaches zero," just remember this poor kid running for his mathematical life!

The mathematical punchlines are multiplying faster than a factorial function! 2 500 is a number so massive it makes the national debt look like pocket change, yet mathematicians just shrug and say "meh, finite." Meanwhile, statisticians look at 2 5 (a measly 32) and act like they've discovered infinity. And that workshop joke? Pure mathematical humor—identical to others except for some arbitrary constant. It's like saying "this joke is exactly like my other jokes, but with different words." Mathematicians really know how to party, don't they?

Oh sweet merciful mathematics! This isn't disproving the Four Color Theorem - it's an optical illusion that breaks your brain instead! 🧠💥 The Penrose triangle (or impossible triangle) appears to have three connected bars at right angles, but such an object cannot exist in three-dimensional Euclidean space. Your visual cortex is being bamboozled! Meanwhile, the Four Color Theorem is about map coloring - stating that any map can be colored using just four colors so no adjacent regions share the same color. Completely different mathematical realm! It's like comparing apples to... IMPOSSIBLE APPLES THAT CANNOT EXIST IN OUR DIMENSION! *maniacal laughter*

The mathematical battlefield is brutal. Leonhard Euler, the Swiss mathematician who apparently named half the concepts in calculus, stands heroically blocking a barrage of mathematical notation while math students peacefully slumber. No need to learn multiple mathematicians' names when Euler's got constants, identities, formulas, and theorems covering everything from complex analysis to graph theory. The man's name appears so frequently in textbooks that students can just mumble "probably Euler" on exams and have a decent chance of being correct.

That moment when you think you've mastered the quadratic formula only to discover the cubic formula exists! 😱 The quadratic formula is like the friendly neighborhood math tool we all remember, but the cubic formula? That's the final boss nobody warned you about! It's like going from "I can cook pasta" to suddenly facing a 12-course French cuisine recipe. Math really said "You thought THIS was hard? Hold my calculator!" 🤣

Death by linear transformation! This mathematical masterpiece combines the grim reaper aesthetic with what matrices actually do in linear algebra. Matrices are essentially transformation machines that take vectors as input and spit out transformed vectors as output. It's like the skeleton is saying "I don't just end lives, I transform vector spaces." Next time your professor asks what matrices do, just point to this skeleton and say "he gets it." Would be even more terrifying if it was a singular matrix though—those things literally murder dimensions.