Persian mathematician Memes

The original math villain himself! Al-Khwarizmi, the 9th-century Persian mathematician, staring down anime characters with his revolutionary idea to "put the alphabet in math." Thanks to this medieval madlad, we now have algebra—literally derived from his book "al-jabr"—and generations of students muttering "y tho?" when solving for x. He's basically the reason you had to figure out when those two trains would meet if one left Chicago at 2pm. The word "algorithm" also comes from his name, so next time your social media feed shows you nothing but cat videos, you know who to blame.