This subreddit is for discussion of mathematics. All posts and comments should be directly related to mathematics, including topics related to the practice, profession and community of mathematics.
4M members. The best post we have captured here reached 20.6K upvotes, which works out to 5 per 1,000 members.
The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.
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The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.
Stop telling kids you’re bad at math. You are spreading math anxiety ‘like a virus.’
I've just start reading this 1910 book "calculus made easy"
The first page of my applied math textbook's chapter on rings
Math is just beautiful
Physicist Stephen Hawking dies aged 76
A geometric haircut
Constructing a pentagon with straight edge and compass
I'm an award winning mathematician. Trump just cut my funding (Tao)
Just ordered a Klein Bottle from Cliff Stoll. He sent me about 2 dozen pictures of him packing it up. Why is he so cute :)
The FBI spent decades tracking mathematician Paul Erdős, only to conclude that the guy was just really into math
Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.
Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.
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Start free →Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/math, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.