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Six Math Tweets - Pope edition
Harshal Chhaya
May 09, 2025
Six tweets that celebrate engineering and all things math (for today)
I scroll so you don’t have to.
The election of Pope Leo XIV and his background, an American from Chicago who studied math at Villanova, resulted in a bumper crop of memes.
The Chicago ones were good but the math ones were exponentially better.
Here’s the 6 I liked.
Did I miss any? Let me know. Just hit ‘reply’. And ‘forward’ to share this with your friends.
#1 🤯
The new pope has a maths degree.
Finally—a Pontiff who really knows his cardinal numbers
— Kit Yates (@Kit_Yates_Maths)
8:10 AM • May 9, 2025
#2 🤯
The new Pope has a degree in mathematics from Villanova University.
This guy doesn’t just understand sin. He understands cos.
— Deedy (@deedydas)
5:51 PM • May 8, 2025
#3 🤯
The new pope was a math major in college. So if a students asks you what types of jobs there are for math majors, well, there you go. Start studying those higher powers!
— Jay Cummings (@LongFormMath)
6:26 PM • May 8, 2025
#4 🤯
Math major possible career paths:
- quant
- programmer
- grad student
- pope— Mac Lane’s Strongest Soldier (@1969itS)
5:51 PM • May 8, 2025
#5 🤯
Since the new Pope has a degree in math, I really hope he will say that eating pie is not a sin because sin(pi)=0.
— Howie Hua (@howie_hua)
7:03 PM • May 8, 2025
#6 🤯
Not that anyone asked, but the new Pope is the next mathematician after Pope Sylvester II, the one that introduced decimal numbering system (1,2,3,4…) and Abacus in western education. He was a mathematician and popularized science (especially astronomy) in Medieval Europe. #Pope
— Ifeanyi (@iamifeanyieze)
10:11 PM • May 8, 2025
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Harshal