Well it’s another lazy Sunday, and i figured i’d make a quick little post. One of my friends on facebook posted a video of a nerdy math song called “I will derive”, a spoof of the “I will survive” song. The singing is god awful and the lyrics are kinda sluggish at times, but i’m a sucker for nerd/geek humor. I figured I’d do a short little compilation of a few math songs i’ve come across on youtube through the years. I won’t pretend i understand everything in them, but sometimes just hearing people laughing at a nerdy joke that’s over my head is enough to make me laugh.

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First one is my all time favorite, it’s written and performed by a group called “Klein four group”, an a capella group from Northwestern University, and the song is called “Finite simple group (of order two)”. It’s a touching love story in math terminology. This is the one where i don’t get all the references and i’m too lazy to get out my math book just to understand a song, but it’s actually really well done and the voices are good too. You can check out the lyrics on the youtube page.

I don’t know a whole lot about the creator of this, apparently they are called Sumerset Inc (check out their youtube channel here). It’s a spoof off the Fergie song Fergalicious (song is called Mathmaticious). If you head over to the youtube URL you can see the lyrics.

This is the one that started this post, my buddy posted this on his facebook and i thought it was pretty amusing (although it’s my least favorite of the three). I love the sillyness of it all and they are obviously well aware of how geeky it is. The singing however isn’t very good and the lyrics are a bit shaggy at times. It’s still pretty good though.