Dance
Original: Dance on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (title card):
DISCOVERY: MATHEMATICS IS WAY BETTER IF ALL JARGON IS REPLACED BY DANCE TERMS
Panel 2:
A woman with curly hair and glasses, wearing a maroon jacket, lectures while pointing at a chalkboard. On the board is the discrete Fourier transform formula: X_k = sum from n=0 to N-1 of x_n e^(-2πi kn / N).
Woman: TODAY, WE LEARN THE FAST FOURIER GLIDE.
Panel 3:
A bald man with a gray beard and glasses, in a suit, gestures in front of a chalkboard listing physics conservation laws: Time → Energy, Translation → Momentum, Rotation → Ang. Mom. (angular momentum).
Man: NOW, OBSERVE HOW WE CAN NOETHER SHUFFLE ACROSS ALL OF PHYSICS.
Panel 4:
A figure in an orange shirt stands on a stage with arms raised triumphantly before a seated audience. A board behind shows the Riemann hypothesis statement: ℜ(s) = 1/2.
Speaker: AND THUS, I HAVE DONE THE RIEMANN BOOGIE.
Caption: [THUNDEROUS APPLAUSE]
Votey:
A roughly sketched, sweating face looks alarmed.
Speaker: WHAT? YES, THAT'S THE WHOLE PROOF.
DISCOVERY: MATHEMATICS IS WAY BETTER IF ALL JARGON IS REPLACED BY DANCE TERMS
Panel 2:
A woman with curly hair and glasses, wearing a maroon jacket, lectures while pointing at a chalkboard. On the board is the discrete Fourier transform formula: X_k = sum from n=0 to N-1 of x_n e^(-2πi kn / N).
Woman: TODAY, WE LEARN THE FAST FOURIER GLIDE.
Panel 3:
A bald man with a gray beard and glasses, in a suit, gestures in front of a chalkboard listing physics conservation laws: Time → Energy, Translation → Momentum, Rotation → Ang. Mom. (angular momentum).
Man: NOW, OBSERVE HOW WE CAN NOETHER SHUFFLE ACROSS ALL OF PHYSICS.
Panel 4:
A figure in an orange shirt stands on a stage with arms raised triumphantly before a seated audience. A board behind shows the Riemann hypothesis statement: ℜ(s) = 1/2.
Speaker: AND THUS, I HAVE DONE THE RIEMANN BOOGIE.
Caption: [THUNDEROUS APPLAUSE]
Votey:
A roughly sketched, sweating face looks alarmed.
Speaker: WHAT? YES, THAT'S THE WHOLE PROOF.
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1 is a yellow title card reading "DISCOVERY: MATHEMATICS IS WAY BETTER IF ALL JARGON IS REPLACED BY DANCE TERMS." Panel 2: a curly-haired woman in glasses points at a chalkboard showing the Fourier transform formula and says, "TODAY, WE LEARN THE FAST FOURIER GLIDE" (a pun on Fast Fourier Transform). Panel 3: a bald, bearded man in a suit gestures at a board listing physics symmetries (Time-Energy, Translation-Momentum, Rotation-Angular Momentum) and says, "NOW, OBSERVE HOW WE CAN NOETHER SHUFFLE ACROSS ALL OF PHYSICS" (referencing Noether's theorem). Panel 4: a person in an orange shirt stands triumphantly on a stage with arms raised before an applauding audience, a board behind showing the Riemann hypothesis (ℜ(s) = 1/2). They declare, "AND THUS, I HAVE DONE THE RIEMANN BOOGIE," with the caption "[THUNDEROUS APPLAUSE]." The joke: serious math and physics concepts renamed as dance moves. Votey (aftercomic): a crudely drawn, sweating, alarmed face insists, "WHAT? YES, THAT'S THE WHOLE PROOF" — implying the "Riemann Boogie" dance was offered as an actual proof of the unsolved Riemann hypothesis.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.