So, I got an email from my mom, with the subject of Beauty of Mathematics, containing a youtube link. Since I have a degree in math, it seemed appropriately nice.

I was (perhaps naively) expecting something like this ViHart video:


*sigh*

I got this "inspirational" video, instead:


Okay, mom, the first part is neat. But the rest of that? It's not "mathematics", it's trite numerology, and it's idiotic garbage. (If you were smart, and skipped the second vid, they assign numbers to letters of the alphabet based on position, and then add up the numerical value of various phrases.)

I'm on the fence trying to decide if I ought to tell my conservative mother that if you continue with that theory, internet porn is even better than love of god.

Decisions, decisions.