Technical writing Memes

Mathematicians and their notorious LaTeX obsession. The rest of us use Word like normal humans, but mathematicians will spend four hours debugging a bracket in their equation editor just to produce a single-page document. Then they'll judge you for not formatting your differential equations with the proper kerning. It's not a fetish, it's a "professional standard"... sure, Jan.

The mathematical equivalent of using a stone axe to build a spaceship! This poor soul is trying to typeset elegant set theory in LaTeX (the gold standard for mathematical documents) but creating their diagrams in MS Paint—the digital equivalent of drawing with crayons. Those wobbly, hand-drawn partition lines are the mathematical equivalent of serving a gourmet meal on a paper plate. The contrast between the formal notation (∀x,y ∈ Π(x ∩ y = ∅)) and those shaky MS Paint curves is pure mathematical blasphemy! It's like watching someone solve differential equations with an abacus. Every mathematician viewing this just felt a disturbance in the force.

When your LaTeX editor suggests replacing "rational" with "sensible" in your math proof and suddenly your entire theorem falls apart! This is peak mathematical humor where the editor clearly doesn't understand that √3 isn't just being unreasonable—it's literally irrational by mathematical definition. The "S" at the bottom standing for "Sensible numbers" is killing me. Next thing you know, we'll be classifying numbers as "emotionally stable" instead of "real" and "in therapy" instead of "imaginary."

The title "W ∈ Do!" is a mathematical pun that would make even the sternest professor snort coffee through their nose. The ∈ symbol means "element of" or "belongs to" in set theory, so the title reads as "We belong to Do!" or simply "We Do!" Meanwhile, the meme perfectly captures the daily struggle of mathematicians and scientists trying to communicate complex ideas while lacking the proper tools. Sure, we can solve differential equations that predict the collapse of stars, but heaven forbid we try to type those equations without looking like we're performing digital hieroglyphics. Next time you see a scientist frantically searching for the integral symbol or desperately trying to type a partial derivative, just remember - behind every groundbreaking paper is someone who spent 20 minutes trying to find the Greek letter ξ on their keyboard.

The eternal mathematical identity crisis! Engineers and scientists created two identical-looking symbols with completely opposite meanings just to mess with our brains. One symbol (Ø) represents "nothing" while the other identical symbol (Ø) represents... "not nothing." Then they wrote identical descriptions with opposite explanations. This is the academic equivalent of putting identical twins in the same outfit and asking strangers to tell them apart. No wonder programmers drink so much coffee.