/sci/ - Science & Math

>>9247179
>go back to pol
>implying post is some alt-right propoganda
>post was a we wuz kangz joke
Do you know the backround behind the we wuz kangz thing? It's not some random alt-right banter against blacks

>>9238586
Pythagoras, who was a famous ancient greek mathematician, also led a cult based off of his mathematical discoveries. The major idea behind the cult's beliefs (members were referred too as the pythagoreans) was that everything in nature was dictated by some sacred ratio (and there's actually a funny anecdote about the person who proved the square root of 2 couldn't be represented as a ratio was thrown off of a boat in the middle of a sea and drowned because the pythagoreans didn't like it). The part where people make jokes and memes out of it is that the pythagoreans also had other... "interesting" rituals they followed. These rituals/rules include things like never pissing in the direction of the sun. One of these rules, that no one can eat beans, is one of the most known, as the entire reason (at least I have heard) was because pythagoras fucking HATED beans, almost like they were the bane of his existence, and as such made it one of his most important rules to NEVER EAT FUCKING BEANS. It's because of this really odd and arbitrary rule that pythagoras set for all of his followers that some people have made memes making fun of just how eccentric pythagoras and his pythagoreans lived as part of their philosophy/religion.

>>9232105
At least you get to be both a tao and a chad by getting a grad degree in math and also fucking hot hippie chicks on the side. I just get to be the class Klebold who never found an Eric Harris to shoot up high school with so just went into college studying math instead

Also >>9232109 and >>9232258 are probably right, you're getting cu-cu-cu-cuckkkked big time big boy

>>9222077
>throws up a random wikipedia paragraph completely out of context to make Erdos sound like a paranoid schizo who lives in fear and hatred of a higher being
>haha what a brainlet
Instead of reading articles out of context, watch a documentary on the life of Erdos. He was definitely eccentric and what skeptical of the existence of a god throughout his life. However, terminology like "SF" when referring to a hypothetical god was a joke he shared with colleagues and friends, not something he held a serious, unironic belief in. Here's an hour or so documentary which explains his life and his personality in further detail: https://youtu.be/nCQwh9fsU7I

Sorry if I sound a little assblasted when I wrote this, just seemed like you accidentally read yourself into a false impression of who was, in reality, a great man.