#Mathematician discovers how to fold the smallest #origami doughnut
How many times do you have to fold a piece of paper to make a doughnut? After decades, a mathematician determined most efficient technique
Schwartz presented his result: paper must be folded at least 24 times, creates 16 triangles that intersect at eight vertices. For his proof, he used simulations and methods of analysis. He consulted AI—a hallucination by program almost undid it.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mathematician-discovers-how-to-fold-the-smallest-origami-doughnut/
https://archive.ph/eFHIz
#mathematician — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #mathematician, aggregated by home.social.
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https://www.europesays.com/people/285949/ Sam Altman Says He Has ‘Empathy’ for Mathematicians Upset About AI #AI #empathy #feeling #field #formula #math #MathematicalCommunity #mathematician #model #NavierStokeEquation #OpenAI #part #people #SamAltman #UnresolvedProblem
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[en] "I am a #math professor, and my field is in crisis."
"I’ve been trying not to talk like this."
"Meanwhile, the wider public is confused. Don’t mathematicians want their problems to be solved?"
"Yes and no."
"... But for many “pure” mathematicians—those who look inward at math’s most #theoretical aspects, at its inner beauty and structure, using human creativity, imagination, and logic - AI feels more #ambiguous because machines can discover the truths we’re seeking, at the cost of robbing us of the struggle and joy of #discovering them ourselves."
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/10/ai-math-human-future/689133/
#math #mathematical #mathematician #ai #artificialintelligence #stevenstrogatz
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Happy birthday to #mathematician & geodesist Gladys West (née Brown 1930-2026)! Shown with 3 satellites important to her career + tracks: Seasat, GEOS-3 & a GPS satellite. Her work, using math to precisely model the shape of Earth, laid the groundwork for GPS! Born to sharecropper parents in Virginia, she graduated with a Math BSc in ‘52 then MSc at VSU in ‘55. 🧵1/
Also: #spacetober_challenge Earth
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A Mathematician Reads the AI Future
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/10/ai-math-human-future/689133/
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50233347
#HackerNews #AI #Future #Mathematician #Technology #Innovation #Humanity
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https://www.europesays.com/people/275552/ Altman Says Mathematicians Have Gone From ‘We’re Cooked’ to Embracing AI #academic #AI #altman #Competition #day #field #FutureCareer #GradStudent #MathCommunity #mathematician #OpenAI #prerogative #problem #SamAltman #TerenceTao #work
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The Mathēmatikoi were an #ancient sect of the cult of #Pythagoras, the great ancient #Greek #mathematician.
This sect believed that EVERYTHING could be explained by #numbers, and that in fact, #reality ITSELF was built on and by numbers.
The longer I live, the more I'm starting to believe this as well.
Example:
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#NFL #Player Turned #Mathematician #Solves Problem that #Eluded Scholars for Years | Amanpour and Company #math #yt #growthFactorinGaussianElimination solved
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Day 19 #spacetober_challenge prompt is Saturn so I am sharing Russian #mathematician & writer Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevski (1850-1891) who worked, amongst other things on the dynamics of Saturn’s rings. Her contributions to analysis, differential equations & mechanics include Cauchy-Kovalevski theorem & the famed Kovalevski top. She was 1st woman appointed full professor in N Europe or to serve as editor of a major scientific journal. 🧵
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📜 Ah yes, the NYT offers us a riveting tale of a #mathematician going full #Rambo on math's "crisis"—because apparently, π is under siege. 🤓🔫 But first, they demand you disable your ad blocker, presumably so they can fund the next math war documentary. 🤑📉
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/us/math-ai-terence-tao.html #mathcrisis #NYTstory #πadblockers #HackerNews #ngated -
How To #Prove Like A #Mathematician? : Medium
#Aspen #Trees provide a natural buffer against #Wildfires, even as fire season intensifies, study shows : Live Sci
How #AI is changing #Spacecraft and #Satellite operations : Space
Latest #KnowledgeLinks
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https://www.europesays.com/news/86352/ OpenAI’s Math Dump Rattles Researchers Who Saw Programs Wiped Out #AI #AlexKontorovich #BrynaKra #BusinessInsider #company #EntireResearchProgram #Headlines #mathematician #MathematicsProfessor #News #OpenAI #research #researcher #result #talk #TopStories #TristanBuckmaster #tuesday
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RE: https://mathstodon.xyz/@johncarlosbaez/117406006352245430
#AI, aided and abetted by Lean, can out-Mochizuki any human #mathematician.
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There might be other places in the world beside #Quebec where #beers are named in honour of the French #mathematician #HenriPoincare, but I rather doubt it …
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There might be other places in the world beside #Quebec where #beers are named in honour of the French #mathematician #HenriPoincare, but I rather doubt it …
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#OnThisDay Birth Anniversary of Radhanath Sikdar (1813) - Indian #Mathematician who is best known for calculating the height of #MountEverest.
Today is World #TeachersDay.
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Scientists predicted in 1960 that next month, the world would end as we know it. Population growth would squeeze to death all humankind, in November 2026.
Cited for decades, even by SCOTUS, this claim was serious business, put forth by a magician turned mathematician... Not refuted until mid-90s!
#EndOfTheWorld #doomsday #math #GenAI #doom #mathematician #calcuation #prediction #Earth #humanity
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https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Lloyd-Familienbuch-V/pages/176b-portrait-of-kepler/
Isaac Newton’s invention of gravity relied on earlier work by Copernicus and also Kepler, shown here. Before the work of Newton, ripe apples often floated upwards, making them difficult to harvest.
He reminds me of The Master from Dr. Who!
#Kepler #JohannesKepler #gravity #astronomer #mathematician #vintagert #portrait #man #DrWho #theMaster #gimp #xsane
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For the Day 13 diamond shape prompt of #SciArtSeptember I am sharing Marjorie Rice (née Jeuck, 1923–2017) who discovered 4 new pentagonal tilings of the Euclidian plane!
The San Diego mother of 5 (6th died in infancy) completed half a correspondence art course after high school & had no training as a #mathematician but was always interested in #math & art. 🧵1/
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If it were the case that #AI could replace #mathematicians, it would be a genuine sign of #AGI and a future that is either dark or bright.
#AI hasn't demonstrated this, and 100% of the results that have been pushed in the press have been suss in one way or another.
An AI assisting a #mathematician by searching a theory space is not novel or particularly worrysome, it is an expected evolution of existing systems in line with what we know about #LLM #Transformer #Models.
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https://www.europesays.com/people/221401/ It Took 130 Billion Tokens for OpenAI to Solve a 90-Year Math Problem #agent #AI #bubble #BusinessInsider #hour #lisanbench #MathProblem #mathematician #model #OpenAI #post #ResearchDatum #SamAltman #solution #SuchIntensiveUse #token
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⚠️🚨BREAKING: #Mathematician rediscovers Bezier curve, claims "innovation." Meanwhile, circles and straight lines weep in their forgotten corners. 😂👨🎨 Why bother with anything new when we can just slap a fresh coat of paint on a 70-year-old idea? #CuttingEdgeRetro
https://acko.net/blog/curvature-beziers/ #Innovation #BezierCurve #Humor #RetroDesign #HackerNews #HackerNews #ngated -
Happy birthday to #mathematician Karen Keskulla Uhlenbeck (b. 1942), a founder of modern geometric analysis & winner of 2019 Abel Prize for “her pioneering achievements in geometric partial differential equations, gauge theory, & integrable systems, & for the fundamental impact of her work on analysis, geometry & mathematical physics.” The only woman winner, she donated half the money to orgs which promote engagement of 🧵
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Escaping #Gravity Without #Fuel : Medium
#Fossil Evidence Indicates #Baby T. rex Were Tiny, but #Deadly : Disc Mag
How a 99-year-old #Mathematician unraveled a century-old #Braid #Mystery : Sci Am
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A little issue. (I’m not saying there are no “LLM fanatics” or ideologues)
But the war-of-religion-inducing word here is “fan”
You seem to have no trouble distinguishing:
- faith
- frequency of use
- enthusiast
- advocate
- supporter
- proponent
- die-hard
- expert
- intermediate
- novice
- ceo
...So why collapse all of that into “fan”?
That word smuggles in too much. My point of viewI like the reasonable distance taken by #codeberg and #mathematician in the domain of automatic theorem proving
They do not totally condemn usage while at the same time warning and even distancing themselves from embracing the technology mindlessly
I think their position is super acute as it bypass the questioning about intellectual property: open source and mathematical knowledge are less prone to money induced issues and what could be labelled as "steal" or "ruthless copy"
Some mathematicians have asked for a moratorium on datacenters-led AI
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Niels Abel was born 224 years ago, on August 5, 1802. At just 21, he proved that no general algebraic formula can solve equations of degree 5, a problem that had challenged mathematicians for roughly 250 years.
Short on money, Abel paid the printer himself and condensed his proof into just six pages to keep costs down. He sent a copy to Gauss, but never received a response.
Abel died of tuberculosis at just 26. Two days later, a letter arrived announcing that he had been appointed professor in Berlin.
A breakthrough recognized too late.
#NielsAbel #Mathematics #MathHistory #HistoryOfMathematics #Mathematician #Algebra #AbstractAlgebra #QuinticEquation #Quintic #GaloisTheory #MathematicalHistory #MathFacts #ScienceHistory #STEMHistory #STEM #MathematicalBreakthrough #MathematicalGenius #Norway #NorwegianHistory #CarlFriedrichGauss #Equations #NumberTheory #PureMathematics #MathEducation #ScienceCommunication #OnThisDay #August5 #History #MathematicsLovers #MathTwitter
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Happy birthday to #mathematician, aeronautical #engineer, philanthropist and Cherokee ‘hidden figure’ of the space race: Mary Golda Ross (1908-2008).
Great-great-granddaughter of Chief John Ross, who was forced to lead his people on the Trail of Tears, Ross attributed her success in math to the Cherokee tradition of encouraging equal education for boys and girls. 🧵1/https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/634592877
#printmaking #sciart #womenInSTEM #Indigineer #SpaceRace #planetaryScience #linocut #mastoArt
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Happy birthday to trailblazing American computer scientist Frances Elizabeth Allen (1932 – 2020) who made foundational contributions to optimizing compilers, optimizing programs and parallel computing. She was the first woman to become an IBM Fellow, where she worked from 1957 to 2002 and as an emeritus fellow afterwards. She was the first woman to win the Turing Prize.
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https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/1086564033
#printmaking #womenInSTEM #histSTM #computing #mathematician #sciart #compsci
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“Jacob is a problem solver and a theory builder; I say that in a very strong way.” - Peter Sarnak
- J. Tsimerman is driven to solve hard problems.
- He has decided to work in #OpenAI as a researcher now.
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10 years ago today, #SeymourPapert, South African #mathematician, died at 88.
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https://medium.com/the-story-well/the-mask-of-monsieur-leblanc-4dfe5e0decf0
Sophie Germain was a mathematician who worked under a false name for years, sending her ideas to leading scholars while pretending to be someone else.
#SophieGermain #mathematician #identity #IdentityCrisis #medium #life
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The #universe could have 18 possible shapes
Our universe appears flat—but this still leaves plenty of options for its true shape. In fact, our cosmos could resemble a donut
In 1934 #mathematician #WernerNowacki proved there are 18 different flat 3D shapes. If our universe is flat, then it has one of these 18 shapes. We can rule out some candidates because eight of 18 are “nonorientable.” That leaves 10 different forms that the universe can have.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-universe-could-have-18-possible-shapes/
https://archive.ph/u8XBC