#mathematicians — Public Fediverse posts
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#Euler and the Seven #Bridges of #Königsberg : Medium
#Mathematicians make a #Breakthrough on #Gauss’s #Riddle, unsolved for 200 years : Sci Am
A newly found #World #Blurs the boundary between #Planet and #Moon : Misc
Latest #KnowledgeLinks
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#Euler and the Seven #Bridges of #Königsberg : Medium
#Mathematicians make a #Breakthrough on #Gauss’s #Riddle, unsolved for 200 years : Sci Am
A newly found #World #Blurs the boundary between #Planet and #Moon : Misc
Latest #KnowledgeLinks
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I want to write about how people who consider themselves “scientific” and “critical thinkers” in current society are usually in fact obedient sheeple.
The PNG is of the Master Field Equation of the correct Unified Field Theory. I know it is correct because, among other things, it gives the fundamental constants from first principles. Even Newton’s G.
But most scientists will not even investigate it, because I’ll tell you it means Special Relativity is wrong.
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I want to write about how people who consider themselves “scientific” and “critical thinkers” in current society are usually in fact obedient sheeple.
The PNG is of the Master Field Equation of the correct Unified Field Theory. I know it is correct because, among other things, it gives the fundamental constants from first principles. Even Newton’s G.
But most scientists will not even investigate it, because I’ll tell you it means Special Relativity is wrong.
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At the International Congress of Mathematicians, #mathematicians expressed mixed feelings about #AI’s impact on their field. While some, like Fields Medallist Jacob Tsimerman, are concerned about AI surpassing human mathematicians, others, like Yu Deng, believe AI will complement human talent rather than replace it. Mathematicians argue that the essence of mathematics, driven by diverse goals and values, will remain unchanged. https://www.understandingai.org/p/mathematicians-are-grappling-with?eicker.news #tech #news #ainews
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At the International Congress of Mathematicians, #mathematicians expressed mixed feelings about #AI’s impact on their field. While some, like Fields Medallist Jacob Tsimerman, are concerned about AI surpassing human mathematicians, others, like Yu Deng, believe AI will complement human talent rather than replace it. Mathematicians argue that the essence of mathematics, driven by diverse goals and values, will remain unchanged. https://www.understandingai.org/p/mathematicians-are-grappling-with?eicker.news #tech #news #ainews
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Mathematicians are grappling with the possibility that AI might eclipse them www.understandingai.org/p/mathematicia… #AI #math #mathematicians
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Mathematicians are grappling with the possibility that AI might eclipse them www.understandingai.org/p/mathematicia… #AI #math #mathematicians
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"Now he no longer worries so much about his future. He’s doing work he cares about; he’s widely recognized for it. And he sees beauty in the questions he’s exploring."
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"Now he no longer worries so much about his future. He’s doing work he cares about; he’s widely recognized for it. And he sees beauty in the questions he’s exploring."
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"“He started off solving well-known spectacular problems,” said Tobias Ekholm of Uppsala University. “At a slightly older age, he’s doing this same spectacular work, but he has this ability: He solves a famous problem but does it in a way that creates a framework, a whole new package, that will be useful to other people.”"
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"“He started off solving well-known spectacular problems,” said Tobias Ekholm of Uppsala University. “At a slightly older age, he’s doing this same spectacular work, but he has this ability: He solves a famous problem but does it in a way that creates a framework, a whole new package, that will be useful to other people.”"
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"Shayan Oveis Gharan has won the Abacus Medal for using tools from across mathematics to boost the power of algorithms."
https://www.quantamagazine.org/shayan-oveis-gharan-wins-2026-imu-abacus-medal-20260723/
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"Shayan Oveis Gharan has won the Abacus Medal for using tools from across mathematics to boost the power of algorithms."
https://www.quantamagazine.org/shayan-oveis-gharan-wins-2026-imu-abacus-medal-20260723/
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An #AI #math breakthrough sparks calls for new guardrails
The question, what #mathematicians call the unit distance problem, seems simple. The answer is tricky. Eighty years ago, in 1946, the famous mathematician #PaulErdős proposed what he thought was the answer, but no one had been able to prove or disprove his conjecture. At least, not until now.
The model disproved a famous conjecture, raising questions about trust, credit and access
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ai-guardrails-erdos-math-problem
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An #AI #math breakthrough sparks calls for new guardrails
The question, what #mathematicians call the unit distance problem, seems simple. The answer is tricky. Eighty years ago, in 1946, the famous mathematician #PaulErdős proposed what he thought was the answer, but no one had been able to prove or disprove his conjecture. At least, not until now.
The model disproved a famous conjecture, raising questions about trust, credit and access
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ai-guardrails-erdos-math-problem
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🎉👏 Oh, look! Another cryptographic "breakthrough" by #wannabe #mathematicians who think pressing buttons on #GitHub is equivalent to #actual #research. 🤦♂️ Next up: discovering fire! 🔥
https://github.com/anthropics/cryptography-research-demo #cryptography #breakthrough #tech #satire #HackerNews #ngated -
🎉👏 Oh, look! Another cryptographic "breakthrough" by #wannabe #mathematicians who think pressing buttons on #GitHub is equivalent to #actual #research. 🤦♂️ Next up: discovering fire! 🔥
https://github.com/anthropics/cryptography-research-demo #cryptography #breakthrough #tech #satire #HackerNews #ngated -
Hannah Fry Wins the Leelavati Prize in 2026 for Mathematics Outreach (cam.ac.uk)
https://www.maths.cam.ac.uk/features/professor-hannah-fry-wins-leelavati-prize
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Hannah Fry Wins the Leelavati Prize in 2026 for Mathematics Outreach (cam.ac.uk)
https://www.maths.cam.ac.uk/features/professor-hannah-fry-wins-leelavati-prize
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Link to stories for each of the Field and Abacus Medal winners for 2026.
"Every four years, the math world’s preeminent awards are given to the finest minds of a generation. The young winners — all under 40 on the first day of the year — have reshaped mathematics and theoretical computer science. Here are their stories."
https://www.quantamagazine.org/series/fields-and-abacus-medals-2026/
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Link to stories for each of the Field and Abacus Medal winners for 2026.
"Every four years, the math world’s preeminent awards are given to the finest minds of a generation. The young winners — all under 40 on the first day of the year — have reshaped mathematics and theoretical computer science. Here are their stories."
https://www.quantamagazine.org/series/fields-and-abacus-medals-2026/
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Human mathematicians are being outcounterexampled
https://xenaproject.wordpress.com/2026/07/20/human-mathematicians-are-being-outcounterexampled/
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48983382
#HackerNews #humanmathematics #counterexamples #AIinMath #mathematicians #innovation
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Human mathematicians are being outcounterexampled
https://xenaproject.wordpress.com/2026/07/20/human-mathematicians-are-being-outcounterexampled/
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48983382
#HackerNews #humanmathematics #counterexamples #AIinMath #mathematicians #innovation
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What is #NNUE?
Think of reality as matrices of grids. An array is a 1D matrix. Some #mathematicians use the name tensor, instead of #matrix. But any n-dimensional #tensor can be flattened to form a 2D matrix. So, there is really no difference between the two names.
An NNUE problem is a state - grid space problem. Imagine every grid in a matrix has several different possible states. How do you represent this problem in a jointly exhaustive and mutually exclusive way?
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“Since antiquity, #mathematicians have suspected that O(n2) was an inherent speed limit for #multiplication. The celebrated Soviet math professor #AndreyKolmogorov posed the O(n^2) speed limit as a formal #conjecture and mentioned it during a 1960 seminar at Moscow State University. Whenever mathematicians propose a conjecture, they are planting a flag of sorts and waiting for others to either prove or disprove them. It took just a week for #AnatolyKaratsuba, then a 23-year-old student in the audience, to return and prove Kolmogorov wrong. Kolmogorov was stunned. The result was published in the prestigious Proceedings of the USSR Academy of Sciences, but amusingly, Karatsuba didn’t write it. Kolmogorov wrote the formal proof himself and submitted it for publication with Karatsuba listed as the lead author. Karatsuba only found out about the paper when he received the reprints in the mail.
Karatsuba’s genius was realizing that you can trade expensive, time-consuming multiplications for cheap, fast #additions. Adding two n-digit numbers takes only O(n) time because it entails a single sweep through the digits rather than a complete sweep through the top number for every digit of the bottom number, as in multiplication.”
#maths / #computation <https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mathematicians-still-dont-know-the-fastest-way-to-multiply-numbers/>
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“Since antiquity, #mathematicians have suspected that O(n2) was an inherent speed limit for #multiplication. The celebrated Soviet math professor #AndreyKolmogorov posed the O(n^2) speed limit as a formal #conjecture and mentioned it during a 1960 seminar at Moscow State University. Whenever mathematicians propose a conjecture, they are planting a flag of sorts and waiting for others to either prove or disprove them. It took just a week for #AnatolyKaratsuba, then a 23-year-old student in the audience, to return and prove Kolmogorov wrong. Kolmogorov was stunned. The result was published in the prestigious Proceedings of the USSR Academy of Sciences, but amusingly, Karatsuba didn’t write it. Kolmogorov wrote the formal proof himself and submitted it for publication with Karatsuba listed as the lead author. Karatsuba only found out about the paper when he received the reprints in the mail.
Karatsuba’s genius was realizing that you can trade expensive, time-consuming multiplications for cheap, fast #additions. Adding two n-digit numbers takes only O(n) time because it entails a single sweep through the digits rather than a complete sweep through the top number for every digit of the bottom number, as in multiplication.”
#maths / #computation <https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mathematicians-still-dont-know-the-fastest-way-to-multiply-numbers/>
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The University of Liverpool has launched a call for ten 150th Anniversary Chairs. 🎓
In #Mathematical #Sciences, we read the priority areas broadly. We already work across four of the five: materials, AI/data, health, and clean energy/oceans/maritime — and we’re keen to build further capacity and to hear from exceptional #mathematicians.
🚀 Please boost widely.
https://news.liverpool.ac.uk/2026/07/01/global-call-launched-for-exceptional-academic-leaders
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The University of Liverpool has launched a call for ten 150th Anniversary Chairs. 🎓
In #Mathematical #Sciences, we read the priority areas broadly. We already work across four of the five: materials, AI/data, health, and clean energy/oceans/maritime — and we’re keen to build further capacity and to hear from exceptional #mathematicians.
🚀 Please boost widely.
https://news.liverpool.ac.uk/2026/07/01/global-call-launched-for-exceptional-academic-leaders
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🤓 Ah, #nomograms, because why not take a #math problem and turn it into a #confusing piece of #art that only the most bored #mathematicians can appreciate? 🙄 This riveting #documentation is sure to change your life by teaching you how to… align blocks on a page. Truly #groundbreaking stuff, folks! 🎨📉
https://lefakkomies.github.io/pynomo-doc/introduction/introduction.html#what-is-a-nomogram-and-why-would-it-interest-me #HackerNews #ngated -
🤓 Ah, #nomograms, because why not take a #math problem and turn it into a #confusing piece of #art that only the most bored #mathematicians can appreciate? 🙄 This riveting #documentation is sure to change your life by teaching you how to… align blocks on a page. Truly #groundbreaking stuff, folks! 🎨📉
https://lefakkomies.github.io/pynomo-doc/introduction/introduction.html#what-is-a-nomogram-and-why-would-it-interest-me #HackerNews #ngated -
🎉🤖 Oh look, #mathematicians wrote a fancy #declaration about #AI, expecting #Skynet to care! 🤓📜 Meanwhile, the rest of us are busy deciphering the Da Vinci Code of their website navigation. 🚀🔍
https://www.lms.ac.uk/news/leiden-declaration-on-ai-and-mathematics #WebsiteNavigation #DaVinciCode #HackerNews #ngated -
🎉🤖 Oh look, #mathematicians wrote a fancy #declaration about #AI, expecting #Skynet to care! 🤓📜 Meanwhile, the rest of us are busy deciphering the Da Vinci Code of their website navigation. 🚀🔍
https://www.lms.ac.uk/news/leiden-declaration-on-ai-and-mathematics #WebsiteNavigation #DaVinciCode #HackerNews #ngated -
Ah yes, the grandiose "warning" from #mathematicians as #AI supposedly rises like a digital deity, yet we can't read their wisdom without enabling #cookies and JavaScript. 🍪🤖 Clearly, these geniuses have cracked the code of irony: an AI #apocalypse thwarted by browser settings! 😂
https://www.science.org/content/article/mathematicians-issue-warning-ai-rapidly-gains-ground #Irony #BrowserSettings #HackerNews #ngated -
Ah yes, the grandiose "warning" from #mathematicians as #AI supposedly rises like a digital deity, yet we can't read their wisdom without enabling #cookies and JavaScript. 🍪🤖 Clearly, these geniuses have cracked the code of irony: an AI #apocalypse thwarted by browser settings! 😂
https://www.science.org/content/article/mathematicians-issue-warning-ai-rapidly-gains-ground #Irony #BrowserSettings #HackerNews #ngated -
Mathematicians issue warning as AI rapidly gains ground
https://www.science.org/content/article/mathematicians-issue-warning-ai-rapidly-gains-ground
#HackerNews #AI #Warning #Mathematicians #Technology #Future #Ethics
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Mathematicians issue warning as AI rapidly gains ground
https://www.science.org/content/article/mathematicians-issue-warning-ai-rapidly-gains-ground
#HackerNews #AI #Warning #Mathematicians #Technology #Future #Ethics
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Before #Einstein and a bunch of applied #mathematicians invaded the field, #physics was experimental and practical. Physicists believed that electromagnetic waves needed a medium of propagation, just like water being required to propagate water waves. For EM waves, this medium is called "ether" or "aether" (named after the 5th classical element—the pure, bright upper air or quintessence).
Here is a summary of what some well known physicists said about the nature of ETHER.
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Modern mathematics is full of holes. Mathematicians created definitions that are unrealistic in reality. Too much notation and definitions often hide flaws in their proofs. Here is a simple example.
Is Q dense in R? The proof of Q dense in R has been widely accepted by most if not all #mathematicians. Yet, there is an obvious mistake that was never noticed, namely, Q is not just any countable set. Q is an ordered set. Their proof completely omitted this critical property.
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@ZachWeinersmith does it work if I add hashtags to a reply? I have a feeling a lot of people will enjoy your work who follow hashtags like #math #maths #mathematics #mathematicians #numbers #equation #mathstodon
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@ZachWeinersmith does it work if I add hashtags to a reply? I have a feeling a lot of people will enjoy your work who follow hashtags like #math #maths #mathematics #mathematicians #numbers #equation #mathstodon
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The other day I had a fairly popular post talking about how mathematicians easily and often admit that they don't know things or don't understand things. Today at work a real-life example came up!
Original post linked to in the next toot since apparently I can't post a link and have an image at the same time ... wtf?!
I was helping a student with Calc I in my office. The question gave a function and asked for values of x where the tangent line was horizontal. The function is the first in the image.
This requires taking the derivative with the product rule. The result of this is the second in the image. Since the second term has a denominator (other than 1 of course) we need to combine the two terms so we can set the numerator to 0 and solve.
The result of this operation is the third in the image. Fractions are 0 when their numerators are 0, so the fourth line shows the equation to be solved.
The student got this far without any help but was unable to solve the equation. This is commonplace. After all, the hardest part of calculus is algebra. But I couldn't see how to solve it either, so I told the student this.
At this moment two of my colleagues were talking in the hall outside my office so I told the student I'd ask them about it. Neither knew how to solve it and told me as much. So I told the student, who was actually thrilled that none of us could solve it either.
So I asked Wolfram Alpha, which gave a solution using the Lambert W, aka the productlog function. I'm a combinatorial topologist -- I do graph theory of various kinds. I've heard of this function but otherwise know nothing at all about it. And I'm happy to admit it! Anyway, that's how mathematicians roll.
ETA: Of course this problem shouldn't have appeared in an introductory calculus text since no undergraduate at that level would be able to solve it, so its inclusion was a mistake of the author or the editor.
#Calculus #LambertW #HorizontalTangent #DifferentialCalculus #Math #Mathematics #Mathematicians
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The other day I had a fairly popular post talking about how mathematicians easily and often admit that they don't know things or don't understand things. Today at work a real-life example came up!
Original post linked to in the next toot since apparently I can't post a link and have an image at the same time ... wtf?!
I was helping a student with Calc I in my office. The question gave a function and asked for values of x where the tangent line was horizontal. The function is the first in the image.
This requires taking the derivative with the product rule. The result of this is the second in the image. Since the second term has a denominator (other than 1 of course) we need to combine the two terms so we can set the numerator to 0 and solve.
The result of this operation is the third in the image. Fractions are 0 when their numerators are 0, so the fourth line shows the equation to be solved.
The student got this far without any help but was unable to solve the equation. This is commonplace. After all, the hardest part of calculus is algebra. But I couldn't see how to solve it either, so I told the student this.
At this moment two of my colleagues were talking in the hall outside my office so I told the student I'd ask them about it. Neither knew how to solve it and told me as much. So I told the student, who was actually thrilled that none of us could solve it either.
So I asked Wolfram Alpha, which gave a solution using the Lambert W, aka the productlog function. I'm a combinatorial topologist -- I do graph theory of various kinds. I've heard of this function but otherwise know nothing at all about it. And I'm happy to admit it! Anyway, that's how mathematicians roll.
ETA: Of course this problem shouldn't have appeared in an introductory calculus text since no undergraduate at that level would be able to solve it, so its inclusion was a mistake of the author or the editor.
#Calculus #LambertW #HorizontalTangent #DifferentialCalculus #Math #Mathematics #Mathematicians
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@dtgeek/116331913812426416
Historic indeed!✌️🎉
Let's also always celebrate the fact that #NASA's early #space endeavors in the 50s to 60s were possible, in no small part, due to the hard work and abilities of three #female #AfricanAmerican #mathematicians, viz.: Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson. Watch the 2016 biography, Hidden Figures, for the uninitiated 👇:
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@dtgeek/116331913812426416
Historic indeed!✌️🎉
Let's also always celebrate the fact that #NASA's early #space endeavors in the 50s to 60s were possible, in no small part, due to the hard work and abilities of three #female #AfricanAmerican #mathematicians, viz.: Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson. Watch the 2016 biography, Hidden Figures, for the uninitiated 👇:
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Why #mathematicians are #boycotting their biggest #conference - Scientific American
More than 1,500 mathematicians are demanding that their field’s most prestigious meeting be moved from the U.S.
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Why #mathematicians are #boycotting their biggest #conference - Scientific American
More than 1,500 mathematicians are demanding that their field’s most prestigious meeting be moved from the U.S.
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#OnThisDay: Birth Anniversary of #American #Poet Robert Frost (1874).
Birth Anniversary of Paul Erdős (1913) - one of the most prolific #Mathematicians and producers of mathematical #Conjectures of the 20th century.
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#science rocks folks! #Mathematicians knocking it out of the park