Talk:Epic Rap Battles of History 59/@comment-24408988-20160203200620/@comment-5482968-20160203215853

Mathematicians are probably a really risky choice for ERB, in terms of what would be considered "exciting/interesting" for them to use. Unlike most other fields that would probably be called boring due to their connection to academia, there aren't really any dynamic personalities of maths. Where "scientists/scientific figures" has the likes of Nye, Newton, and others, the math side has a few Greeks and some other guys you probably learned the last name of in high school algebra.

I'm not opposed to using mathematicians if they can make it work, but it's a risk for ERB if they wish to make their battles "energetic" or however you'd like to phrase it.

Royales are typically (or at least they seem to be) reserved for topics they want to knock out in 1 go (directors) and/or as a culmination of a running joke throughout the season (Russians). Given math is a topic they'd likely only broach once, if at all, it's possibly a viable option for a royale, but not necessarily likely. If they continue doing them as sparingly as they have, we may only have 1 or 2 left in ERB before they decide to end, but that's far too unknown a future to really discuss in detail.