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Urban legends about how much students and people hate math might be exaggerated. While we're in school, many of us consider the subject impenetrable. However, at least in England, mathematics has been the most popular subject in high schools since 2014, as a whopping 85,000 to 90,000 students choose it at A-level.

If you're a fan of numbers and science, too, this list might just be for you. Bored Panda came across an Instagram page "Memes for mathematicians," and we just couldn't help but share some of their funniest posts with you. So, if you like equations, theorems, and parabolas, have a chuckle at the memes below!

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    #3

    Cat peeking through a torn box with text referencing Schrödinger, a funny meme for mathematicians and nerds.

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    Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa)
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    5 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The funny thing about this is Schrodinger created his thought experiment as a joke to criticize the Copenhagen Interpretation of quantum theory. And I'm a huge nerd for knowing that.

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    #4

    Two SpongeBob characters labeled physicists and biologists reacting to a large green monster labeled calculus in a meme for mathematicians.

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    Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa)
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    5 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If you change Calculus to Statistics you get the opposite result.

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    #9

    Tweet meme about mathematicians joking on limits, perfect for memes for mathematicians and math nerd humor.

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    David Paterson
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    3 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The limit always exists. Sometimes it exists on the infinite numbers but it still exists.

    #11

    Distorted close-up photo of a dog representing confusion in math memes for mathematicians and nerds.

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    Remi (He/Him)
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    3 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Do that on a test tho and suddenly the same prof is all about showing your work

    #12

    Google search autocomplete results for calculus includes phrases like makes me depressed, no sense, feel stupid, and cry, related to memes for mathematicians.

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    Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa)
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    5 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I found calculus to be pretty easy. I started young though.

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    #13

    Meme showing a funny take on scientists transforming stress into electricity, fitting memes for mathematicians humor.

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    David Paterson
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    3 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not without motion they can't. Through piezoelectricity, stress gives charge. So when someone overcharges me, that stresses me.

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    #14

    Three troll faces with math humor about incorrect calculations and adding a hypothetical number, meme for mathematicians.

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    Doofnuts
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    5 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We "Math" at my favorite watering hole all the time.

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    #24

    Scene from The Office meme showing a woman labeled students comparing two math symbols, caption on math memes humor.

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    David Paterson
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    3 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The Greek lowercase letter xi is the equivalent of the normal x, so it is very useful. When written by hand, any illegible scribble suffices for xi ! I'm serious.

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    #28

    Line graph showing Warren Buffett’s age increasing steadily over time, illustrating a simple math-related meme for mathematicians.

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    Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa)
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    5 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I made a similar joke about myself today. After grunting and groaning to pick something up off the floor, I told the bartender "I can't help it! Every year goes by and I get a year older"!

    #29

    Text meme about building one more particle collider to find particles and solve physics, featuring Future Circular Collider map.

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    Roman Arendt
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    4 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'd take a collider over new generations of tanks, jet fighters or ballistic missiles every time. Maybe not the best way to spend taxpayers money, but certainly not the worst.

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    #30

    Side-by-side images of normal cat and mathematician cat meme illustrating humor in memes for mathematicians.

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    Pandemonium
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    4 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I just thought that was how cats in Greece spoke

    #36

    Calculator humor showing simple math as playful numbers and advanced math as complex expressions, fitting memes for mathematicians.

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    George D
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    5 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In my day (the 80's) you better have the HP 15c or 16c calculator or you're toast in calculus.

    #41

    Humorous math meme showing pentagon, hexagon, octagon shapes and a downward trending portfolio graph labeled portfoliogone.

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    Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa)
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    5 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This need to happen to all those smug business majors.

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    #45

    Buzz Lightyear in a math meme showing calculator app normally versus rotated with advanced math symbols for mathematicians.

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    Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa)
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    5 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Never use them. I prefer real calculators. I never go anywhere without my trusty Ti-34. It's small, solar powered and does everything I need.

    #48

    Comments humorously ruling out numbers as answers to how many people are on earth in 2025, a memes for mathematicians joke.

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    Slop Generator
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    4 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We have quantum computers to run this algorythm in seconds

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    #49

    Man in winter clothes surrounded by math and physics diagrams and memes for mathematicians humor concept.

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    David Paterson
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    3 hours ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's only the incompressible Navier Stokes equation, to fix it you need Favre averaging which will put the density inside the differential. The cow should be spherical in order to get get an exact analytical solution. For P = NP you need to be aware that NP complete is not actually complete. The quark diagram is incomplete. The Feynman diagram needs an extra loop. I wish my extrapolations worked that well. See, he's easy to fix.

    #50

    Two cartoon people and a dog, with a math meme about divisibility, humor for mathematicians and math nerds.

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    Pandemonium
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    4 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    OK smarty pants then what's 17 x 5,882,353?

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    #55

    Confused man reacting to a math meme about infinite $1 and $20 bills with equal worth in memes for mathematicians.

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    Angela C
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    5 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And because of inflation they'd both be completely worthless

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    #67

    Math meme showing integral symbol as a worm with text about being scared of a worm, perfect for mathematicians and nerds.

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    David Paterson
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    2 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's just an area. Put the function on graph paper and count the squares.

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    #73

    Comparison meme featuring Gauss's formula and simple division, illustrating humor in memes for mathematicians and nerds.

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    Doofnuts
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    5 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Boy, he looked like c**p when he was 7.