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[Anonymous No.9238898]

Biggest memes in Mathematics?

>Be me
>Run down mathematician
>Get idea
>Create a function to fuck with colleagues
>Call it Zeta because it hasnt been used yet
>Make up some rules and throw in some constants as results of my function
>-1/12.png
>Gameday
>Show colleague my function
>Expecting a good chuckle
>He is amazed
>wut.wav
>It gets taken to mathematical institutes around the world
>Make up more bullshit rules as I go around explaining my function
>One day get asked a question
>"Where does your function equal zero?"
>Now is my chance to screw with them more
>"It equals zero on every even negative number, but thats too trivial. It lies on s=1/2."
>People are now being offered 1 million dollars to find this value
>TFW I made it all up
>TFW its actually on s=1/4

[Anonymous No.9238932]

>>9238898
>TFW its actually on s=1/4
TFW millions of zeroes have already been found on Re 1/2

[Anonymous No.9239043]

>>9238898
Wildberger.
>Be scared of irrational numbers
>Square the trig functions
>No more square roots!
>Look! I can get the same results with my "better" functions.
>Everything is more complicated
>Well, my formulas are new even though they are a simple translation of pre-existing results.
>Tries to convince everybody to switch to his convention.
>We should teach it to highschoolers because they can't comprehend square roots.
>TFW nothing new
>TFW more complicated
>TFW trying to sell books

[Anonymous No.9239053]

>>9238932
>TFW millions of zeroes have already been found on Re 1/2
Infinitely many zeros.