Comic #3859: how-math-works
Description
Title: HOW MATH WORKS:
STEP 1: INSIGHT
- Character: A man with brown hair and a suit.
- Speech: "My God. I wonder if this is true."
STEP 2: RESISTANCE
- Characters: Two men at a table.
- Speech from one character: "Impossible! Insane!"
- Speech from another character: "It's not just incorrect; it's an entirely new category of stupid."
STEP 3: DEBATE
- Characters: Two men and a woman.
- Speech from one character: "It looks right, but it can't be right."
- Response from another character: "Perhaps we could restructure all of mathematics in a way that makes it wrong."
STEP 4: ADDITIONAL DECADES OF DEBATE
- Character: A man with red hair.
- Speech from the man: "You say ∑(Φ[Δ][Z]??)!”
- Written Note: "I say your mother’s a whore. With Loathing, The Faculty of Cambridge."
STEP 5: CHANGING OF THE GUARD
- Character: A man with glasses and a suit.
- Speech: "I will never understand it. I will never believe it. As I go into death, with my final breath I SPIT on your theorem."
STEP 6: TRANSMISSION TO STUDENTS
- Character: A man in a jacket speaking to students.
- Speech: "How do you not get this concept? We spent an hour on it yesterday!"
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