Actor Terrence Howard seems to have some unique views on the world, and most unique of all is his theory that one times one doesn’t equal one, but two.
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He gave an interview with Rolling Stone recently where he revealed he’d spent years working on his own logic which he’s recorded in a language of symbols called “Terryology”, which he doesn’t want to share with the world until it’s all patented.
Howard reckons his theories will drastically change the way that maths is taught for generations to come and that if Pythagoras were around to see his discoveries “he would lose his mind”.
Howard said:
This is the last century that our children will have to be taught that one times one is one. How can it equal one? If one times one equals one that means that two is of no value because one times itself has no effect. One times one equals two because the square root of four is two, so what’s the square root of two? Should be one, but we’re told its two, and that cannot be.
He added that he spends up to 17 hours a day creating plastic scultures made up of cut up pieces of plastic stitched together with copper wire or soldered, that he believes proves his new form of mathematics.
Howard studied chemical engineering at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn where he fell out with one of his professors over the answer to 1×1.
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I’m not a mathematician by any means. In fact I’m pretty sure I was the worst at maths in school. So maybe that’s why I think Howard might actually be correct about this. He definitely seems completely convinced that 1 x 1 = 2 and totally committed to convincing everyone else of the same thing. I suppose the way he explains it does kind of make sense. The main problem I’ve got is who do I believe — millions of mathematicians throughout the history of time or the guy who plays Lucious in ‘Empire’? Tough one. But then again everyone thought that Christopher Columbus was crazy when he said the Earth was round, right?
Whatever distracts from his wife’s threats to release pictures of his tiny penis to the world, I guess.