Scenes from the “Real World” Where Math is Useful

"Quick!" he screams. "Is anybody here a doctor, a nurse, or a low-dimensional topologist?"

If the U.S. Congress Got to Legislate Physical Laws

For every action, there shall be a vicious and disproportionate reaction.

Dear Student, I’ll put it this way: You don’t seem to understand me yet, but you keep getting closer. -Limits

It’s just not… very… interesting. Don’t you have anything by tortured geniuses?

There you go again! I say that no one believes me, and scarcely a moment passes before you’re disbelieving me again.

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.

We believe in a traditional education. No cell phones. No iPads. No cellular biology. No post-Aristotelian physics.

Learn these math-y high-fives. Make this a better, nerdier world. If not for ourselves, then for our geeky children.

What if I ran the bank? Well, I'm glad I rhetorically asked!