History of science Memes

Behold, the many moods of Leonhard Euler - mathematical genius who derived so many formulas they had to start naming them after other people. The alignment chart perfectly captures the progression of a physicist's mental state throughout a typical workday. Start as Lawful Good before coffee, devolve to Chaotic Evil after discovering your entire calculation was off by a negative sign. The red glowing eyes represent what happens when you realize your elegant 30-page proof could have been done in two lines using Euler's identity. The man himself would appreciate the chaos - he wrote papers faster than they could be published while being partially blind. That's not dedication, that's just showing off.

The stereotype says women would use a time machine to meet celebrities, while men would fix historical mistakes. But here's the truth— any mathematician worth their salt would travel back to bow down before Emmy Noether, the mathematical genius who revolutionized abstract algebra and gave us Noether's Theorem connecting symmetry and conservation laws. While physics bros were fumbling with equations, she casually proved that every symmetry in nature yields a conservation law. She did this while being barred from paid academic positions because—*checks notes*—women weren't supposed to think in the 1900s. Next time someone mentions "standing on the shoulders of giants," remember that some of those giants weren't allowed in the building through the front door.