Mathematical-joke Memes

Hold up, mathematicians! Someone's trying to break the universe with a pie chart using FIVE colors! The Four Color Theorem states that any map can be colored using just four colors without adjacent regions sharing the same color. But this rebel pie chart is flaunting FIVE distinct colors (pink, purple, orange, green, and blue) while having no adjacent regions sharing colors! It's mathematical anarchy! Of course, the joke is that a pie chart isn't a map in the theorem's sense - the theorem applies to planar maps where regions share borders. In a pie chart, every slice touches every other slice at the center point, so technically you'd need as many colors as slices! Mathematical mic drop! 🎤

The eternal mathematical torture! Finding the smallest number in (0,1) is like trying to find the bottom step on an infinite staircase. You think 0.0001 is small? Nope, 0.00001 is smaller! How about 0.000000001? Still not the smallest! There's always a smaller positive number—just divide by 10 again! Poor Sisyphus got upgraded from pushing a boulder uphill to searching for the smallest positive real number. At least the boulder had an endpoint!

The perfect mathematical dad joke doesn't exi— Oh wait, here it is! This meme brilliantly plays on the fact that L'Hôpital's Rule (a calculus method for evaluating limits) wasn't actually discovered by Guillaume de l'Hôpital but by Johann Bernoulli. L'Hôpital essentially paid Bernoulli for his mathematical discoveries and published them under his own name. The gray character's initial smug "of course" followed by angry disappointment when corrected is peak mathematical justice. Historians of mathematics have been making this exact face since 1696.