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A stylized color cartoon sketch in the Furry style, waist-up shot. Front view of a dark green school chalkboard, filled with handwritten messages from attached image in white chalk. A sad, anthropomorphic leopard student with long, loose chestnut-brown hair with a purple tint at the ends wearing a black leather jacket sits at a desk in the lower right corner, facing to the board, slight in profile. Her shoulder and head lean against the chalkboard. With her hand, she writes "You can do it", drawing a heart on the board, her gaze fixed on the writing. The chalk writing is textured, with smudges, and includes a peace symbol, along with the attached image. Outline style: quick strokes with a black pencil overlapping one another to emphasize the contours. Fill: colored, warm hues with soft transitions, splashes of color. Skillful, emotional, inspiring, detailed.
I did not want to interpret the meaning of the painting, because, personally, I feel that doing so takes away some of its symbolism and imagery, while adding an unnecessary sense of pathos. However, for those who are not particularly familiar with mathematical terminology but would still like to understand it, here is an explanation:
The painting depicts a young student who, in her search for the formula of peace, has encountered a number of non-trivial and, in some cases, paradoxical problems.
At the top of the board are two hypotheses. The null hypothesis, H₀ — which is to be either confirmed or rejected — states that peace is a function of certain variables, and therefore can be defined analytically so, under certain conditions, can always be achieved. The alternative hypothesis, H₁, states quite directly that if the null hypothesis fails, mathematics is powerless here.
Below, on the left, are the parameters shown as correlated with peace. The parameters under 0 < R < 1 have a positive correlation, whereas those under −1 < R < 0 have a negative one. The position of knowledge here is deliberately ambiguous: such a tool can be used for very different purposes. Correlation, however, does not imply causation — these parameters do not necessarily determine peace.
Further down, the sum of Love and Equality results in an undefined expression, since, as shown later, these parameters belong to different physical quantities. Peace cannot simply be reduced to the sum of some components.
To the right of it is a paradoxical expression suggesting that, as wealth tends toward infinity, Welfare tends toward Greed, even though the two parameters belong to different categories.
In the upper right corner, there is an integral equation. It suggests that even the accumulated effect of freedom over time is not, by itself, equivalent to peace — something history itself seems to demonstrate.
Below it is an expression showing that the absolute value of the correlation coefficient for Violence is close to one: Violence therefore cannot simply be treated as negligible or removed from the formula merely because we do not like it.
At the center of the painting is a hodograph plotted in the coordinates of 'Happiness of some' / 'Happiness of others'. It represents the transition of the system between two marked states: Injustice and Envy, with Conflicts acting as the driving force behind the transition.
The region of Peace is also marked on the hodograph, yet it does not belong to the trajectory of the system. In other words, the region of peace exists — but the nature of the system does not allow it to enter peace.
