The meme skewers the historical tendency to name mathematical discoveries after European figures while overlooking non-European contributors. Pythagoras didn't actually discover "his" theorem (it was known in ancient Babylon and Egypt), and Fibonacci's sequence was described in Indian mathematics centuries before him. The shocked anime expression perfectly captures that moment of realization when you discover how mathematical colonialism works. History's greatest magic trick: making contributions from non-white mathematicians disappear faster than numbers in a division by zero!
The Great Mathematical Attribution Heist
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