Attribution Memes

When math nerds throw a party, historical accuracy is the ultimate flex! The quadratic formula we all know from high school is actually the work of Bhaskara, a 12th-century Indian mathematician who solved these equations centuries before Europeans. But Western textbooks rarely mention him, instead crediting later mathematicians. Bart's dropping the mathematical mic by giving credit where it's due, and those nerds are going wild! Nothing gets a classroom of math enthusiasts more hyped than proper attribution of mathematical discoveries. Justice for ancient non-Western scientists!

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 mathematical plot thickens! Just when you're trying to master the Laplace transform (that nifty mathematical tool for solving differential equations), you discover the historical bamboozle of the century. Despite being named after Pierre-Simon Laplace, it was actually Leonhard Euler who first investigated these integrals in 1744. The shocked cat perfectly embodies that moment of mathematical betrayal when you realize Euler is basically the uncredited ghostwriter of calculus. Classic Euler, showing up everywhere in mathematics like that one friend who somehow appears in everyone's wedding photos.