#mathematician — Public Fediverse posts
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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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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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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 #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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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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“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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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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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/
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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/
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It is by logic that we prove, but by intuition that we discover. To know how to criticize is good, to know how to create is better.
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It is by logic that we prove, but by intuition that we discover. To know how to criticize is good, to know how to create is better.
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Turin ehrt seinen Mathematiker
#Mathe #Mathematik #MathematikerStrasse #Mathematikerdenkmal #mathematician -
Turin ehrt seinen Mathematiker
#Mathe #Mathematik #MathematikerStrasse #Mathematikerdenkmal #mathematician -
Cleve Moler, #mathematician, cofounder of #MathWorks, and creator of #MATLAB, has died at 86. Say what you will about MATLAB, but its impact on #ScientificComputing is undeniable. As a student, I felt almost rebellious when I started coding in MATLAB instead of #Fortran 🤘
🌍 https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/science/cleve-moler-dead.html
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Cleve Moler, #mathematician, cofounder of #MathWorks, and creator of #MATLAB, has died at 86. Say what you will about MATLAB, but its impact on #ScientificComputing is undeniable. As a student, I felt almost rebellious when I started coding in MATLAB instead of #Fortran 🤘
🌍 https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/science/cleve-moler-dead.html
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Ah, the noble pursuit of finding out which fashion faux pas your RSA keys are making. 👕🔑 Apparently, all it takes to breach #cryptography these days is a bit of polynomial algebra and a misplaced sleeve. 🤷♂️ Who knew the real #cybersecurity threat was a short-sleeve oversight on a mathematician's laundry day? 🧺💥
https://blog.trailofbits.com/2026/06/12/factoring-short-sleeve-rsa-keys-with-polynomials/ #fashionfauxpas #polynomialalgebra #mathematician #laundryday #HackerNews #ngated -
Ah, the noble pursuit of finding out which fashion faux pas your RSA keys are making. 👕🔑 Apparently, all it takes to breach #cryptography these days is a bit of polynomial algebra and a misplaced sleeve. 🤷♂️ Who knew the real #cybersecurity threat was a short-sleeve oversight on a mathematician's laundry day? 🧺💥
https://blog.trailofbits.com/2026/06/12/factoring-short-sleeve-rsa-keys-with-polynomials/ #fashionfauxpas #polynomialalgebra #mathematician #laundryday #HackerNews #ngated -
#OnThisDay Birth Anniversary of John Nash (1928) - American mathematician who made fundamental contributions to #GameTheory, and Scottish #Mathematician James Clerk Maxwell (1831). Maxwell's equations for electromagnetism have been called the "second great unification in physics".
Birth Anniversary of "#FlyingFinn" Paavo Nurmi (1897) and #Irish #Poet W. B. Yeats (1865).
Happy Birthday #CaptainAmerica Chris Evans (1981).
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#OnThisDay Birth Anniversary of John Nash (1928) - American mathematician who made fundamental contributions to #GameTheory, and Scottish #Mathematician James Clerk Maxwell (1831). Maxwell's equations for electromagnetism have been called the "second great unification in physics".
Birth Anniversary of "#FlyingFinn" Paavo Nurmi (1897) and #Irish #Poet W. B. Yeats (1865).
Happy Birthday #CaptainAmerica Chris Evans (1981).
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Happy birthday to autodidact #mathematician Alicia Boole Stott (1860-1940), shown here with diagrams of cross-sections of 4D polytopes from her publications.
Alicia came to math honestly. Her father Prof George Boole developed Boolean logic, but died when she was 4. Her mother Mary Everest Boole was an autodidact mathematician & innovative math educator, who taught kids math through manipulation of objects.
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Happy birthday to autodidact #mathematician Alicia Boole Stott (1860-1940), shown here with diagrams of cross-sections of 4D polytopes from her publications.
Alicia came to math honestly. Her father Prof George Boole developed Boolean logic, but died when she was 4. Her mother Mary Everest Boole was an autodidact mathematician & innovative math educator, who taught kids math through manipulation of objects.
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Can You #Donate Your #Kidney If You’re Not a #Match? : Medium
How #Sunburn #Inspired a new way to store #Energy : BBC
The #Mathematician who doesn’t exist : New Sci
Latest #KnowledgeLinks
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Can You #Donate Your #Kidney If You’re Not a #Match? : Medium
How #Sunburn #Inspired a new way to store #Energy : BBC
The #Mathematician who doesn’t exist : New Sci
Latest #KnowledgeLinks
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#OnThisDay Birth Anniversary of Bertrand Russell (1872) - British philosopher, logician, historian, writer, political activist, and Nobel laureate.
Birth Anniversary of Omar Khayyam (1048) - Persian #Mathematician, #Astronomer, and poet.
Today is International #MuseumDay, and World #AIDS #Vaccine Day.
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#OnThisDay Birth Anniversary of Bertrand Russell (1872) - British philosopher, logician, historian, writer, political activist, and Nobel laureate.
Birth Anniversary of Omar Khayyam (1048) - Persian #Mathematician, #Astronomer, and poet.
Today is International #MuseumDay, and World #AIDS #Vaccine Day.
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Meton - Virtual Mechanical Moon and #Eclipse #Calculator
This awesome tool was created by prof. em. Thomas Weibel from Basel, Switzerland. Here is the beginning of the description from the website:
"The metonic cycle is a period of 19 years corresponding to almost exactly 235 synodic lunar months or full cycles of #moon phases, named after meton of athens, a greek #mathematician and #astronomer from the 5th century bc."
I love it :-)
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Happy birthday to #mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani (1977-2017)! The Fields Medal, one of the most prestigious #math awards, is awarded to mathematicians < 40. In 2014, she became 1st woman to win. Her research included Teichmüller theory, hyperbolic geometry, ergodic theory, & symplectic geometry, and Fields committee cited her work in “the dynamics and geometry of Riemann surfaces and their moduli spaces”.
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Happy birthday to #mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani (1977-2017)! The Fields Medal, one of the most prestigious #math awards, is awarded to mathematicians < 40. In 2014, she became 1st woman to win. Her research included Teichmüller theory, hyperbolic geometry, ergodic theory, & symplectic geometry, and Fields committee cited her work in “the dynamics and geometry of Riemann surfaces and their moduli spaces”.
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From The Register: "Brit #mathematician lets #AI #agent loose with credit card – cue password #leaks, CAPTCHA #chaos and more"
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From The Register: "Brit #mathematician lets #AI #agent loose with credit card – cue password #leaks, CAPTCHA #chaos and more"
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Happy birthday #mathematician Henri Poincaré
(1854-1912), here in my Cubist #linocut portrait.This print is about how movements in art can be connected with contemporary #math & #physics. Specifically, the way Cubism breaks from a single favoured perspective or absolute frame of reference & breaks down subjects into geometrical shapes from multiple points of view can be tied to advancements in non-Euclidian geometry in math & 🧵
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Happy birthday #mathematician Henri Poincaré
(1854-1912), here in my Cubist #linocut portrait.This print is about how movements in art can be connected with contemporary #math & #physics. Specifically, the way Cubism breaks from a single favoured perspective or absolute frame of reference & breaks down subjects into geometrical shapes from multiple points of view can be tied to advancements in non-Euclidian geometry in math & 🧵
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Happy birthday to British #engineer, #mathematician, #physicist & #inventor Hertha Ayrton (1854-1923). I’ve shown her in my #linocut with a diagram of the dividers from her 1st of 26 (!) patents, one of her diagrams about the origin & growth of ripple marks & one of her diagrams of an electric arc lamp (a subject on which she literally wrote the textbook).
Born Phoebe Sarah Marks, she was the 3rd 🧵https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/966154261
#printmaking #sciart #WomenInSTEM #histsci #suffragette #mastoArt
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Happy birthday to British #engineer, #mathematician, #physicist & #inventor Hertha Ayrton (1854-1923). I’ve shown her in my #linocut with a diagram of the dividers from her 1st of 26 (!) patents, one of her diagrams about the origin & growth of ripple marks & one of her diagrams of an electric arc lamp (a subject on which she literally wrote the textbook).
Born Phoebe Sarah Marks, she was the 3rd 🧵https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/966154261
#printmaking #sciart #WomenInSTEM #histsci #suffragette #mastoArt
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Happy birthday to #mathematician Felix Klein (1849-1925). This is a hand-carved and hand-printed image of the famous mathematical object, the Klein bottle, printed in a gradient of pale yellow-green to darker blue-green on paper 8” by 8” (20.3 cm by 20.3 cm). First described by mathematician Felix Klein in 1882, this object has a single surface, rather like a 3D version of a Möbius strip. It is what is called a 🧵
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Happy birthday to #mathematician Felix Klein (1849-1925). This is a hand-carved and hand-printed image of the famous mathematical object, the Klein bottle, printed in a gradient of pale yellow-green to darker blue-green on paper 8” by 8” (20.3 cm by 20.3 cm). First described by mathematician Felix Klein in 1882, this object has a single surface, rather like a 3D version of a Möbius strip. It is what is called a 🧵
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🚨BREAKING NEWS: #Mathematician wins fancy medal; enters #exclusive #club of people who can solve #problems normal humans never knew existed. 🎉 Meanwhile, the rest of us still trying to figure out basic math while the Simons Foundation seems busy plotting how to make #science sound both incredibly complicated AND important. 🙄🔬✨
https://www.simonsfoundation.org/2022/07/05/fields-medal-video-maryna-viazovska/ #Medal #Achievement #Complex #HackerNews #ngated -
🚨BREAKING NEWS: #Mathematician wins fancy medal; enters #exclusive #club of people who can solve #problems normal humans never knew existed. 🎉 Meanwhile, the rest of us still trying to figure out basic math while the Simons Foundation seems busy plotting how to make #science sound both incredibly complicated AND important. 🙄🔬✨
https://www.simonsfoundation.org/2022/07/05/fields-medal-video-maryna-viazovska/ #Medal #Achievement #Complex #HackerNews #ngated -
#OnThisDay Birth Anniversary of #Mathematician Leonhard Euler (1707) - responsible for developing many concepts that are an integral part of modern #Mathematics.
Birth Anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci (1452) - widely considered one of the #Greatest #Painters of all time.
Today is World #ArtDay.
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#OnThisDay Birth Anniversary of #Mathematician Leonhard Euler (1707) - responsible for developing many concepts that are an integral part of modern #Mathematics.
Birth Anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci (1452) - widely considered one of the #Greatest #Painters of all time.
Today is World #ArtDay.
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This is my #linocut portrait of Claude Shannon (1916-2001), #mathematician, electrical #engineer, computer scientist & cryptographer credited with laying the foundations for the Information Age. It shows him in front of binary numbers & with his electromechanical mouse Theseus & its maze. Though partially behind him, the binary numbers are the standard ASCII code for "CLAUDESHANNON".
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This is my #linocut portrait of Claude Shannon (1916-2001), #mathematician, electrical #engineer, computer scientist & cryptographer credited with laying the foundations for the Information Age. It shows him in front of binary numbers & with his electromechanical mouse Theseus & its maze. Though partially behind him, the binary numbers are the standard ASCII code for "CLAUDESHANNON".
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What was mathematician David Hilbert hiding under his hat?
Wrong answers only
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https://jupiter.math.nycu.edu.tw/~mshc/028_202507/028_04.pdf
法國數學家、 歐洲數學學會的前主席布吉尼翁訪談
> 韓國社會變化極快，其中最主要
的手段就是教育。...> 由於六十年來對教育的絕對重視。儘管當時的政府並不總是那麼友善，但他們仍然把教育放在絕對優先地位。這顯示教育可以改變一個國家，我們應該從中學習。
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> 今天，AI 將帶來重要的發展已完全顯而易見。但馬拉特一直說，這些非常有效的演算法的困難在於我們還不知道為什麼它們如此有效率。從數學的角度來說，不明白為什麼會這樣是不可接受的！這表明，仍然缺少一些需要開發和理解的數學知識。...> 是的，但同時也減少了你被眼前所見所愚弄的風險。網路很高效，但也許是出於不好的原因。除非你對某件事有深入的了解，否則你不會對情況感到滿意。
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Happy birthday to French mathematician, physicist and philosopher Marie-Sophie Germain (1776 – 1831), known as Sophie. She taught herself mathematics using books in her father’s library and by corresponding with leading mathematicians of her day, including Lagrange, Legendre and Gauss, initially using the pseudonym Monsieur LeBlanc. Her work on elasticity theory won her the grand prize from the Paris Academy of Sciences. 🧵
#linocut #printmaking #sciart #mathematician #womenInSTEM #histsci
