Math majors and postdocs seriously talk about series and parabolas as though that should mean literally anything to anybody outside of their pointless fields. Oh? You identified a parabolic function? You fitted it to a data set? You want a letter of recommendation? What about a medal? A congratulations?

>"b-b-but m-muh intelligence"

Yeah you're so smart, wow you're literally the smartest person here. We should all bow down to you for going into a field that literally teaches you nothing about how the real world works. You wanna use an integral to pay your court fees? You wanna derive the function for eggs you'll need for your sister's birthday cake? How about you, like literally any functioning adult male, just use your fingers to count? Oh, you know how to find the null space and can describe all the fascinating details and theory behind it? Guess what? The null space is literally not real. Food is real, money is real, people are real, but you made a grid on a paper and are trying to tell me that's more important?

How about you derive this equation? Here, let me integrate my fist with your liver. You like that? How about I find the cross product between my arm vector and your chin position vector? Or, you could just literally shut up and let the real jobs and specialists speak.
>"m-muh exponential curve"
Name literally one time where knowing what an exponential curve even is helped you out in real life. Oh you gonna calculate the virus infection counts when you're dying in your hospital bed? Yeah have fun dying doing the same thing you insist on doing even though literally nobody asked and will never ask.