Alright all you mathematicians out there.  You’ve been thinking, “The Beard Coach has poetry and art, but where’s the math?”

Here’s the answer.

A Mathematical Beard Theory

And here is a photo of bearded mathematician Grigori Perelman.

In 2006 Perelman successfully proved the Poincaré Conjecture winning him the Fields Medal, the top honor a mathematician can receive.  Then in a move fittingly awesome for his beardedness he declined it.  Here is how he summed up his reasoning.

“[Sir John Ball, president of the International Mathematical Union] proposed to me three alternatives: accept and come; accept and don’t come, and we will send you the medal later; third, I don’t accept the prize. From the very beginning, I told him I have chosen the third one… [the prize] was completely irrelevant for me. Everybody understood that if the proof is correct then no other recognition is needed.”

I posted a couple weeks ago about Dennis Haysbert, The Allstate Guy, appearing with a beard and how great I think that is.  I’ve been scouring the web looking for a clip from the commercial, but have yet to find one.  I did, however find a recent photo of him on the Raleigh Star’s site of his appearance at the Jimmy V Golf Classic, held in Raleigh, NC.

That, my friends, is a sweet gray beard.

And I’m not the only one digging it.  I did a quick Twitter search for “Allstate beard” and here are some comments that popped up.

KikiLu2: The Allstate guy has a beard now? I like.

NotQuiteBella: Ooh. I’m loving the Allstate guy’s sweet beard.

kriisco: The Allstate man grew a beard. It’s a good look.

Of course, there were the naysayers as well, but that’s just added evidence that this site and all the other sites out there promoting the beard in a positive light need to work harder. I’m obviously not going to promote their negative bearditudes here.

Several people were disoriented by the Allstate Beard…

ShiningRhino: When did the guy from the allstate commercials grow a beard?!?!

ShileeM: Why did the AllState guy grow a beard?

guitar_freak78: The allstate commercail guy grew a beard!?

However, the most common Twitter reaction to the Allstate Beard was not positive or negative… but simply to shout from the rafters about it.  Consider these:

DrCholes: The allstate insuarance guy grew a beard!!!!!!!

Pazzler: The allstate guy got a beard!

xdaveohx: WOAHH THE ALLSTATE GUY HAS A BEARD NOW!

Catiejay: The Allstate man has a beard!! O my!!

happyhalli: the allstate guy grew a beard!

shelbylynn29: OMG THE ALLSTATE GUY HAS A BEARD NOW! ….that comment didnt really merit CAPS…oops

Love it or not, the Allstate guy’s beard is making waves.  Let’s hope he still has it in the next commercial, and the next, and the next…

Lastly, I’ll leave you with the most hilarious tweet about the Allstate Guy’s beard that I ran across.

D_Beautifulone: Lol, the allstate dude has a beard now. He looks like he should be in a just for men commerical.

Wow, even though I’ve only been actively promoting the site for a couple weeks now, I’m getting great feedback!  The visitors who have contacted me have been really positive and helpful. The number of visits to the site is growing more and more each day.  Beard fans all over the world are stopping by and I think it’s great.

It boils down to the fact that it’s the nature of the beard-wearer to support other beard-wearers in their endeavors.  It’s nice to be part of the community, you know?  Any of you smooth-faced fellows really should join the fellowship.  All it takes is the desire to release your beard-potential.  If you live in the US, you have a long weekend coming up… a perfect opportunity to get a jump start on that beard before you head back to work next Tuesday.  Get to it!