Conspiracy Memes

Historical math conspiracy theories hit different! The Babylonians were using this theorem 1000+ years before Pythagoras was born, and ancient Chinese and Indian mathematicians had their own versions too. Yet somehow this Greek dude gets all the credit in our textbooks. It's like discovering your favorite "original" song is actually a cover. The face in this meme captures that exact moment when you realize history's greatest mathematical heist went unchallenged for 2500 years.

This meme is playing with the mathematical concept of eigenvalues and eigenvectors by replacing "eigen" with "Epstein" - a dark reference to Jeffrey Epstein who notoriously didn't kill himself (according to conspiracy theories). In linear algebra, eigenvalues are scalars that tell us how a matrix transformation stretches or compresses space, while eigenvectors are the directions that remain unchanged except for scaling. The equation det(A-λI) = 0 is the characteristic equation used to find eigenvalues. So essentially, this meme suggests that like certain mathematical truths that cannot be altered, the "Epstein didn't kill himself" narrative persists regardless of official explanations. The determinant equals zero, and apparently, so does the official story's credibility. Just another day in the lab where we apply mathematical principles to conspiracy theories. The overlap in that Venn diagram is surprisingly non-zero.