Looking for science/mathematics shirts!!

Factual Questions
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I’m looking for websites/stores that sell math and science shirts. I’m very envious of a friend who has some very neat shirts- two featuring Maxwell’s equation(s) for light, one approximating Pi to several thousand digits, one with the Rosetta stone, and some others.

I was thinking in specifically of finding a shirt featuring the Riemann Zeta function, or any other really complex/confusing-looking equation that most people wouldn’t understand. (I’m a pretentious math geek, I know). Anything related to science or mathematics would be considered.

Thanks!

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ThinkGeek.com sell a t-shirt with the caffeine molecule on it. They have lots of computer themed stuff too.

“There are 10 types of people in the world: Those who understand binary, and those who don’t…”

That sort of thing, you know.

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A quick search for “math shirts” pulled up this. You may find other things with the same search.

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Go to an AMS meeting, especially the Joint Mathematics Meetings (next January it’s in Atlanta). Look around the vendors.

Actually, I don’t much care for the “big and confusing” style of shirts. Sidney Harris’ cartoons make great tshirts (including the famous “then a miracle occurs” shirt). Then there’s a few variants on “And God said (differential Maxwell equations) and there was light”. My personal favorite is a Springer-Verlag shirt, featuring the S-V logo making a knight’s tour on the back. Normal people have tshirts of their favorite bands. I’ve got a tshirt of my favorite publisher.

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Check any bookstore that’s on or adjascent to a college campus. I remember seeing shirts like you describe at several bookstores near UVA in Charlottesville.

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My favorite math shirt:
http://www.scienceteecher.com/whatpartlrg.html

I wear it when I can.

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How about this or this?

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http://www.cafepress.com/cp/info/sell/ lets you make your own shirt. I think you send them a jpg of the design you want, then they print it on the shirt, and you buy the shirt from them. I haven’t used it myself, but a friend of mine was pretty successful with it.

Of course, using someone else’s copyrighted material (e.g. stealing a design from a link in this thread, then selling it to yourself for a lower price) is probably not such a good idea.

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Go here: http://www.booksmatter.com

Type “shirt” into the search box.

There are about 10 shirts (10 decimal, not binary), of which a couple are full of math formulea.

JOhn.

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If you can’t find a shirt you like, try my favourite T-shirt trick. Go to any major office supply store and buy iron-on transfer paper. Make your own design, print, and iron on to any cotton clothing. I love this stuff!

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Here’s a pretty cool T-shirt that depicts the world’s oldest recorded game of Go.

Sunce vs. Lu Fan, 196 A.D.

There are other famous Go games and classic Go strategy t-shirts within this store, as well.

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I have that one. Unfortunately the T shirt itself is kinda chintzy. Is there some way to determine whether a T shirt is cheap or not? Maybe the weight or something?

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thanks guys! All links have been helpful. I’ll post if/when I order/buy anything!

Keep ‘em comin’!

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Grand unification theorists envision a a single equasion, small enough to print on a t-shirt, which could explain EVERYTHING that happens in the universe.

Can M-Theory be distilled into one single equasion?

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My favorites:

[Pi symbol]
Irrational, but well rounded.
[A list of equations in the shape of a bottle between two vertical lines]
Absolut value

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My favorite, spotted at a UNM physics symposium:

And God said:
[Long formula, presumably describing the emission of light from fusion within a star.]
And there was light.

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Those are undoubtedly Maxwell’s Equations, either in differential or integral form. They’re the fundamental equations of the electromagnetic field (light).

I think a better variant is “… and still there was no light. Even He forgot boundary conditions.”