Historical Memes

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The Great Scientific Catfish

The Great Scientific Catfish
Historical clickbait at its finest! The meme shows Newton's face but attributes his famous prism experiments to Leibniz - his arch-nemesis and calculus rival! It's like crediting Edison for Tesla's work or giving your lab partner credit for your Nobel-worthy discovery! 🔍⚡ Newton would be rolling in his grave faster than an apple falls from a tree! These two brilliant minds already fought over who invented calculus - now they're battling over who split light first? The scientific rivalry that keeps on giving!

The Omnipresent Mathematician

The Omnipresent Mathematician
The mathematical equivalent of finding Waldo! Leonhard Euler, the Swiss mathematician extraordinaire, somehow managed to contribute to virtually every mathematical field that exists. Calculus? Euler was there. Number theory? Yep, Euler again. Graph theory? You guessed it—Euler crashed that party too. The meme brilliantly portrays Euler as that unexpected guest who shows up in every mathematical domain like he owns the place. His contributions were so vast that mathematicians still stumble across his work centuries later thinking "seriously, this guy AGAIN?" Next time you're studying any mathematical concept, just assume Euler had his fingers in it—you'll probably be right.

Newton Drops The Inertia Bomb

Newton Drops The Inertia Bomb
People in 1685: *happily pushing things that immediately stop when not pushed* Newton, publishing his First Law of Motion: "An object at rest stays at rest unless acted upon by an external force." Everyone: *mind explodes* Fun fact: Before Newton formalized inertia, people genuinely struggled to explain why objects stopped moving. Aristotle thought objects had a natural tendency to be at rest, which is why we're still recovering from that 2000-year physics facepalm.

The Mathematical Flex Of Immortality

The Mathematical Flex Of Immortality
Politicians get countries named after them. Monarchs get entire historical eras. But mathematicians? Leonhard Euler is sitting there with his cool shades because he has over 70 mathematical concepts bearing his name. Countries come and go, but E=mc² is forever. The man has theorems, numbers, formulas, and even letters (that mysterious e in calculus) immortalizing him. Talk about mathematical flexing! While kings and queens ruled lands, Euler ruled the very language of the universe. That's not just fame—that's intellectual immortality.

Mathematical Blasphemy Through The Ages

Mathematical Blasphemy Through The Ages
When mathematicians see someone write "e = 8" on an MIT entrance exam from 1869, they collectively lose their minds! The meme shows historical figures (including what appears to be Euler himself) trying to restrain someone who's witnessing this mathematical blasphemy. It's like catching someone claiming the Earth is flat at a NASA conference! The joke references how mathematicians get irrationally upset (pun intended) about approximations. While engineers might round π to 3 for practical calculations, seeing the mathematical constant e (approximately 2.71828) defined as 8 would make any mathematician need therapy. The title "π=3 Is So 21st Century" suggests we've moved beyond that old mathematical sin to commit even more outrageous ones!