The Ph.D In Prescription Hieroglyphics

Behold the mathematician's infinity stones! While Thanos collected gems to destroy half the universe, mathematicians wield linguistic weapons of mass confusion to obliterate student comprehension. Each proof becomes a cosmic light show of "thus," "hence," "furthermore," and the dreaded "trivial" (which is never actually trivial). One snap of "therefore" and suddenly your understanding vanishes into dust. The real superpower? Casually dropping "trivial" on a three-page equation that would make Einstein weep. Pure mathematical savagery.

The brutal evolution of our relationship with long division. As kids, we confidently tackled these calculations like mathematical superheroes, ready to conquer any problem set before us. Fast forward to adulthood, and we're staring at 91÷13 like it's written in ancient hieroglyphics. The calculator app has effectively amputated this part of our brain. I'd sooner derive the Navier-Stokes equations from first principles than attempt mental arithmetic these days.

The top panel shows emotions with prime numbers (2, 3, 5, 7, 11), while the bottom reveals the newest emotion—Mersenne Prime Guy! That number (2 13627941 -1) is the largest known Mersenne prime, discovered in 2018. It's a whopping 24 million digits long! While regular emotions need just one digit to express themselves, this mathematical monstrosity needs a U-Haul of suitcases just to carry all its digits around. That's what happens when you invite a number theorist to the emotional party—they always bring excessive baggage! 🧮✨

Nothing says "happy holidays" like mathematical coordinate systems! This brilliant mashup shows Christmas trees plotted along different axes and dimensions. The regular Xmas/Ymas/Zmas trees are your basic 2D and 3D plots, but then we escalate to the fancy XYmas, YZmas, and XZmas trees showing the projection planes. The X²-Y²mas tree is for those who prefer hyperbolic coordinates, while the Z²mas tree—with its event horizon of ornaments—is clearly for physicists who want their festivities to have some gravitational pull. Personally, I prefer my holiday decorations in 11-dimensional string theory space, but my department keeps rejecting the budget requests.

Natural logarithms and lanthanides? Might as well be identical to non-science people! The meme brilliantly pairs the natural logarithm (log e ) with the lanthanide series from the periodic table—both concepts that make normal humans run screaming. Those orange elements (lanthanides) are literally the "we'll deal with these later" section of chemistry class that everyone conveniently forgets exists. For science nerds, they're completely different concepts from different fields, but to corporate suits? Pure gibberish either way! It's basically the scientific equivalent of that Pam from The Office meme saying "they're the same picture" because to the untrained eye, both are equally intimidating mathematical/scientific notation that might as well be hieroglyphics.

Who needs the beach when you can get a tangent instead? This math genius drew trigonometric curves on their arm - literally getting a "tan" function! The red curves show the tangent function going wild at π/2, while the arm stays perfectly pale. Math nerds everywhere are cackling at this top-tier calculus humor. Next time someone asks about your summer plans, just say you're "working on your tan(x)" and watch their confusion!