Comic #7059: simple

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Comic Title: The Complexity of Mathematics

Panel 1: Character on the left:
"Professor, why are mathematicians so certain that everything should reduce to simple axioms? Why can’t it be more complex?"

Character on the right:
"It’s an observed fact."

Panel 2: Character on the right:
"If you look at math textbooks, the broad introductory texts are all large and full of color and pictures."

Panel 3 (Graph):
Label: "As you advance in your mathematical career, the books become shorter, grayer, and with fewer words and more symbols."

• A graph shows:
  • Y-Axis: "Profoundness of Mathematics"
  • X-Axis: "Plain-ness of Math Text"
• Left Side:
  • Book with a colorful cover: "Let’s learn algebra!"
• Right Side:
  • Dark book with complicated title: "Eigen-fractal recursive quasi-dimensional anti-manifold pedipulation techniques no help fuck you"

Panel 4: Text:
"This suggests that the very deepest math – the book of the universe – will be an infinitesimally small piece of paper, overwritten with a single infinitesimally small symbol."

Panel 5: Character 1:
"What do you think the symbol means?"

Character 2:
"This universe left as an exercise for the reader."

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