you can't prove it. You gotta have faith.

1+1=2
Math Rock is real QED

http://tinyurl.com/2d6h3h

((a - b) x (c/d)) x (5 + e) = math rock!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rR6tMSL7rk&feature=related

Apples in Stereo Rob Schneider's compositions based on the non-pythagorean musical scale...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-Pythagorean_scale

Case closed.

2N+X < # = Q =/= U

sleeping people
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-uZlRpPqYQ

...on boxes, suck coxes etc.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24GQ4gWGvz0&feature=related

is synonymous with there's going to be a lot of tap-tap-tapping but instead of being boring you're supposed to think it's philosophically deep. Sometimes this is true, more often than not it really is just boring.

math rock is simply another musical genre that people attach to certain bands/styles.all you have to do to see if its real is to see if people use it.there is no 'real' musical genre because people may call the same band different things and so if we take meaning away from one genre we may as well take it away from all of them....and that my friend,is just stupid.

Dillinger Escape Plan are Mathcore.
Battles are dancy math and very original.
Youthmovies are mathy progressive punk.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFD3xN-W2kQ

http://img164.imageshack.us/img164/8676/47896852am0.jpg

Lava land by Piglet

that is the best i can come up with regarding the synonomous idea that most have about Math Rock being a basically a load of nerds hammering on. beware it is as dry and as hard work listening to it as you'd expect.... very akin to the impersonal and emotionally arrid worst excesses of prog. a la Gentle Giant.

should you wish to try a go at something a little subtler, with a little more listener empathy, then try

Sharks Keep Moving - desert plains EP.

a very enjoyable record, missing out of most of the tat but still sticking with the repetative nature.

personally - i used to see Math Rock as primarilly being about the structure of the song first, and consequently would see bands like Tortoise being quite Mathy, however the most *indie* i can view *math* is Sonic Youths 'Rain on Tin' from Murray Street, nothing about the sound, just about the way the song could be written down in basically an equation(al form).

i do tend to be sympathetic to this style as an artist (many years ago) i used to make prints by exactly the same process.

however as with most genre tags, they are out of date before they are even thought up! ;oD and most refer to Math Rock as to being the sound and its basic start point being an off shoot of Post Rock.