When You Think You're Smarter Than 19th Century Mathematicians

Someone's having a mathematical meltdown! The joke here is that the top function is actually the famous Weierstrass function—a mathematical monster that's continuous everywhere but differentiable nowhere. Yet our overconfident hero has "differentiated" it anyway in the second line, which is mathematically impossible.

It's like claiming you've found a dry path through the ocean. Karl Weierstrass wasn't being "stupid"—he was blowing mathematicians' minds in 1872 by proving such pathological functions could exist. This meme perfectly captures that student who thinks they're smarter than centuries of mathematical giants right before reality crushes their soul during office hours.