Nostalgia, in 5 Graphs

How long do you keep items before throwing them out?

Does hating math make you bad at it?

Even in math class, excellence is a journey, and natural ability is only a starting point.

It’s helpful here to contrast math with science. That’s because they’re completely unalike.

Survive? I didn’t survive. Don’t you understand how that damned transporter device even works?

What do you call a rigorous demonstration that a statement is true? If you have no word for this concept, then you’re an economist.

"I like counting to ten. But the teens are just too hard, and I can't imagine they have any real-world significance." -Preschoolers

Mmm... torus....

They show that math really is the language of the universe, and hilarious things happen when you try to translate the universe into English.

I was eight, maybe nine, at the kitchen table with my dad. He was describing a professor who claimed his grad student is psychic.

Probability I Get the Right Answer vs. Number of Minus Signs I Need to Cancel