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Works which have used it as a tag:

• Tributes to Icarus by MapleTheDisturbed for S_R_Beth

  Fandoms: Pi (1998)  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Gen
  • Complete Work

  16 Aug 2025

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Max Cohen
  • mentioned Sol and Jenna
  • Non-Graphic Violence
  • Implied/Referenced Self-Harm
  • Inspired by The Fall of Icarus (Ancient Greek Religion & Lore)
  • Not Canon Compliant
  • Could Be Canon
  • I haven't actually watched pi
  • so... inaccuracies
  • Canon-Typical Medical Inaccuracies
  • Post-Canon
  • Fix-It of Sorts
  • Ambiguous/Open Ending
  • use your imagination as to whether he goes nuts again
  • I get that this is Darren Whatshisname's happiest ending
  • but i hate it
  • so i'm changing it
  • So sue me
  • I recognize Darren Aronofsky has made a decision but given that it's a stupid ass decision I've elected to ignore it.
  • I Wrote This Instead of Sleeping
  • i wrote this instead of doing homework
  • S_R_Beth if you're reading this your headcanons are probably different and i'm sorry it doesn't really work with canon
  • potentially misquoted
  • I wrote this in a frenzy of inspiration which I feel like is appropriate given the canon

  Summary

  It is my opinion that not just medicine, but every profession has an Oath.
  The Oath of the Mathematician states:
  "My own suffering shall be irrelevant in face of the eternal search for truth."
  "I hereby forfeit my soul to the truth. All torment from this point forward is in honor."

  Should these conditions be at least somewhat adhered to, a true mathematician emerges.
  Should they be abandoned, then something is fundamentally wrong in the universe.

  Series

  • Part 1 of canon-plausible fix-its to spite sad authors

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