So I Had To Correct Someone'S Maths On The Graffiti Wall At The Banksy Exhibition

The haunting of Leonhard Euler continues! Start learning literally ANY quantitative field and BAM—there he is, staring at you with those wide-eyed expressions like the cat in this meme. Differential equations? Euler's method. Complex analysis? Euler's formula. Engineering mechanics? Euler-Bernoulli beam theory. The man casually invented so many fundamental concepts that it's impossible to escape his mathematical gaze. You think you're learning something new but nope—just another playground where Euler left his fingerprints centuries ago. The mathematical equivalent of realizing your ex follows all your social media accounts.

The eternal philosophical war that keeps mathematicians up at night! This quadrant chart perfectly captures the existential crisis of number nerds everywhere. Are you a Platonist who believes math exists independently in some ethereal realm waiting to be "discovered"? Or do you think we just made up these torture devices called equations and convinced ourselves they're real? The best part is how we pretend this debate matters while the rest of humanity just wants to know if they calculated their tip correctly. Trust mathematicians to create a political compass for something that has zero practical impact on daily life. Next up: a 7-dimensional chart explaining why some people prefer parentheses over brackets.

Engineering students everywhere just felt a disturbance in the force! This is what happens when you take "approximation" to its logical extreme. The image shows a highway with a massive gap between sections, and the caption is basically every physics professor's favorite phrase when they want to simplify calculations. For those who slept through Physics 101: π (pi) is actually 3.14159... and gravitational acceleration (g) is 9.8 m/s². Rounding these values makes calculations easier but, uh, might lead to structural disasters like this bridge that clearly didn't account for those pesky decimal points! Next time your professor says "let's simplify," maybe ask if they're also designing bridges in their spare time.

Behold the eternal academic food chain! The top panel shows sciences arranged by "purity" with physicists smugly declaring dominance while mathematicians exist in their own dimension entirely. Meanwhile, the bottom panel reveals the dirty secret - as complexity increases, everyone's just desperately simplifying reality to make their equations work! This is basically every interdepartmental faculty meeting distilled into its purest form. Physicists think they're the apex predators of science until they need to calculate something with actual real-world messiness. Then suddenly it's "assume a spherical cow" time! And poor mathematicians, off in their abstract universe where numbers don't even need units. They're playing 5D chess while everyone else is arguing about whose science has more prestige. Truly the introverts of the academic world!

When your math homework suddenly turns into a lesson on anime hair physics. The equation 550÷2=225 is mathematically correct, but the real scientific breakthrough here is how that character maintains 225cm of hair without neck problems. Conservation of mass? Nope. Conservation of shampoo budget is the real challenge. Some grad students are currently writing a dissertation on the tensile strength required for those follicles.

The eternal war between math teachers and students, illustrated by the bell curve of intelligence. At both extremes of the IQ spectrum (the 55 and 145 crowd), we've got the same burning question: "Why calculate this by hand when calculators exist?" Meanwhile, the average 100 IQ folks in the middle are like "Sweet, calculator time!" It's the perfect horseshoe theory of mathematics—both the mathematical geniuses and those struggling with basic arithmetic arrive at the same conclusion: manual calculation is torture. The irony? The smartest and the, um, "most challenged" students are the only ones questioning why we're still doing arithmetic like it's 1822.