What It Feels Like Taking A Math Test At Art School

The geometric heresy we never learned in Sunday school! Someone's bravely pointing out that pizzas are technically shallow cylinders (height

The mathematical precision is flawless, but the medical utility? Not so much! This meme brilliantly captures the disconnect between academic credentials and practical skills. When someone with a PhD in mathematics encounters a real-world emergency, their brain defaults to what they know best—counting things. The beautiful irony lies in how technically correct yet spectacularly unhelpful the mathematician's contribution is. It's like bringing a calculator to a gunfight—mathematically sound, practically useless. The confidence in that nodding gesture really seals the deal. "Yes, I've contributed something of value here." No, no you haven't.

The mathematician's nightmare! Noah's trying to load his ark with prime numbers, but someone snuck in 91 (which is 7×13). The look of betrayal on his face is priceless. Prime numbers can only be divided by 1 and themselves - they're the building blocks of mathematics. But 91 is an impostor among the primes, wearing a disguise so convincing that even experienced math enthusiasts occasionally fall for it. And there's 13 looking all smug about it. "Yes, I multiplied with 7 behind your back. What are you going to do about it?" Next time you're building an ark of prime numbers, double-check your passengers with a primality test!

Someone's turning karma farming into a mathematical masterpiece! The upvote targets (987, 1597, 2584, 4181, 6765) follow the Fibonacci sequence where each number is the sum of the two preceding ones. Meanwhile, the posts are recursively embedding previous posts, creating a visual representation of the sequence itself through nested screenshots. It's like watching mathematical recursion and internet points collide in a glorious spiral of nerdiness. The ultimate math flex that's exponentially multiplying across Reddit faster than a bacterial culture in a forgotten grad student's fridge.

When Fermat said "All Fermat numbers are prime!" Euler basically said "Hold my quill pen" and factored 4,294,967,297 into 641 × 6,700,417... by hand . 🤯 Fermat numbers (2 2 n + 1) were thought to be prime for all values, but Euler crushed that dream with pure mathematical wizardry. He didn't need a calculator, supercomputer, or even electricity—just his brain and possibly an unhealthy obsession with large numbers. Meanwhile, I struggle to calculate a 15% tip without my phone. This is why mathematicians are the original flex masters of history!

The physics problem wants you to calculate if Jerak can reach the elevator before it closes, but the angry meme face cuts through the mathematical nonsense with brutal logic: "Because of this stupid guy." Sure, we could solve for time (t = distance/speed = 15m/2.5m·s -1 = 6s) and realize Jerak would arrive precisely when the door closes completely. But why bother with kinematics when the real problem is the inconsiderate person inside deliberately holding the "close door" button? No equation accounts for human pettiness - that's the variable they don't teach you in physics class!