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https://www.europesays.com/ie/465039/ Mathematicians Claim Significant Discovery Using ChatGPT #Éire #IE #Ireland #LiamPrice #MathProblems #mathematicians #PaulErdős #solution #Technology #TerenceTao
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#MIT #Engineers develop a soft, #Printable, metal-free #Electrode : MIT
Do #Insects Feel #Joy and #Pain? : Sci Am
Flow #Proof Helps #Mathematicians Find #Stability in #Chaos : Quanta Mag
Check our latest #KnowledgeLinks
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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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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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Of course this was known to many famous #mathematicians, like #Euler and #Jacobi and they solved the equations in terms of #EllipticIntegrals. I find it satisfying to be able to visualize the #dynamics of the this system, using #FreeSoftware, such as #WxMaxima.
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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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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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Why mathematicians are boycotting their biggest conference | Scientific American
“More than 1,500 #mathematicians are demanding via petition that their field’s most prestigious meeting be moved from Philadelphia in the U.S.”
“…the French Mathematical Society (SMF) announced that it would skip the event (France is a mathematical powerhouse, with more Fields Medalists than any country except 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
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#Atheism is the opium of the #mathematicians. Atheism is the #religion of #Mathematics.
Bill Gaede
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https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=15444
“be careful not to get sucked up in the slime-machine going on here! Since you don’t care that much about money, they can’t buy you at least.”
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microsoft released some kind of study of the professions that will be most impacted by #AI tools
there's a lot to take issue with here (mathematicians? historians? data scientists?) but the some of the entries are pretty undeniable (e.g. #translators, marketers)
#historians #mathematicians #CNC #datascience #datascientist #MSFT
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Some #musicians have #PerfectPitch. Some even have #Synaesthesia. Lucky blighters.
I wonder what would happen if some #mathematicians have a similar neurological and perceptual super powers. But then, mathematicians do possess highly developed visualisation abilities and intuitions, which might well be called super powers.
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Mathematics is hard for mathematicians to understand too
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aec9014
#HackerNews #Mathematics #Understanding #MathematicsChallenges #Mathematicians #ScienceNews
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Hey Sunday #mathematicians. I could use some help with something.
You have some number of people, say 20. They each sort some number of possible discussion topics, say 40, into four categories: Love to discuss (score of 4) like to discuss (3), sure, why not (2), and no thanks (0). You want to set up discussion groups of four. How do you assign unique people to the topics they most want to discuss?
#mathematician #math #maths #combinatorics #nerds #eggheads #community
Thanks!
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“Descriptive set theorists are an exception. This small community of #mathematicians never stopped studying the fundamental nature of sets — particularly the strange #infinite ones that other mathematicians ignore.”
I want to be friends with these people or stumble upon them in bars and hotel lobby’s…
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Math Makers by Alfred S. Posamentier, 2020
The Lives and Works of 50 Famous Mathematicians
An entertaining history of mathematics as chronicled through fifty short biographies. Mathematics today is the fruit of centuries of brilliant insights by men and women whose personalities and life experiences were often as extraordinary as their mathematical achievements.
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How Math Helps Us Map The World
Paulina Rowińska, mathematician, speaks with host Ira Flatow about the relationship between math and mapping.
#cartography #mathematics #mathematicians #maps #mapping #geography #math #gis #navigation #maths
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Some #Mathematicians Don’t Believe in #Infinity
One question has preoccupied humans for 1000s of years: Do infinities exist? 2,300 years ago #Aristotle distinguished between two types of infinity: potential & actual. Former deals with abstract scenarios that would result from repeated processes. If you imagine counting forever, adding 1, over and over, this situation, in Aristotle’s view, would involve potential infinity. But actual infinities, he argued, couldn't exist.
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The French mathematicians of Kangaroo Island. A strange tale.
Kangaroo Island, off the coast of South Australia, was inhabited by the Indigenous Kartan people until possibly several thousand years after sea levels rose and cut it off from the mainland about 10,000 years ago. The island is sacred to the mainland Kaurna and Narungga peoples. In 1803 it was surveyed by French cartographer Nicholas Baudin, who named two prominent features of the island Cape Borda and Cape Cassini for two French mathematicians. These names have stuck to this day.
Jean Charles de Borda (1733-1799) was a mathematician who served in the army. He worked on projectiles, fluid mechanics, hydrography, cartography, invented a surveying instrument, and proposed the ranked positional voting system. https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Borda/
Giovanni Domenico Cassini (1625-1712) was a mathematician and astronomer who became a French citizen in 1673. He made tables of Jupiter's moons, made a study of the curve which is the locus of a point the product of whose distances from two fixed foci is constant, and disagreed with almost everyone about nearly everything. https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Cassini/
All respect to Cassini and Borda, but it's totally weird that dead white men's names were given to places they never went anywhere near and had never even heard of and had no connection with whatsoever, but that's the colonial mentality for you. Also, it's a wonder the British didn't strip all the French names off in favour of glorifying the names of their own heroes or (more likely) financial sponsors.
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Bourbaki – A Secret Society of Mathematicians
https://books.google.com/books/about/Bourbaki.html
#HackerNews #Bourbaki #Secret #Society #Mathematicians #Mathematics #History
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5 #Coincidences that make our #Existence possible : Medium
A #Study Says Your #Brain Can #Travel Through #Time. Here’s What It Does to Your #Memory. : Pop Mech
Some #Mathematicians Don’t Believe in #Infinity : Sci Am
Check our latest #KnowledgeLinks
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Ah yes, yet another "groundbreaking" fractal grapher that requires the immense power of JavaScript to "run" 🏃♂️💨. As if we needed a new excuse for browsers to crash while pretending to be #mathematicians 🤡🔢.
https://www.juliascope.com/ #fractalgraphing #JavaScriptperformance #browsercrash #techhumor #HackerNews #ngated -
Besides US bigtech, Huawei is hiring countless top #mathematicians in Europe. Why are the global European players too blind to see that true innovation will be driven from the foundational level, not just from applied engineering? So much talent here, but so little ambition in corporate strategy.
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#Claude4 #Sonnet and I just added a new #Latex module to our ICandy #browser dashboard. Latex is the best typsetting tool for #mathematicians, #economists, #engineers, ...This module is not fully functional yet. But we will be adding mathjax and pdftex to it some time today.
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CW: Opinion regarding predators
I think maybe #pschopaths and other #predators are innate #mathematicians of #socialrisk and #socialcontrol.
They learn at some #developmental stage that they can #hurt or #abuse people and get away with it through #language and other modalities of #lying.
The #power excites them or comforts them somehow and so they repeat. They can’t stop because their #evil success is #addicting to them.
Or that’s been my observation.
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#Dopamine, #Serotonin, #Endorphins, #Oxytocin: Your happy #Hormones, explained : Nat Geo
#Graphene ‘#Tattoo’ treats #Cardiac #Arrhythmia with light : Misc
#Mathematicians make even better never-repeating #Tile #Discovery($) : New Scientist
Check our latest #KnowledgeLinks
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@CelloMomOnCars
Why is it "bidens" #LNG-export study? He is president but its #scientist, #economist and #mathematicians that identified and presented these #facts. How about;A fact based study by economist and others has shown that LNG exports will increase the cost that #Americans will pay for energy by as much as 30%. This may be viewed by #conservatives as just another #inconvenient fact to be ignored.
#democracy is more than voting.
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Some #musicians have #PerfectPitch. Some even have #Synaesthesia. Lucky blighters.
I wonder what would happen if some #mathematicians have a similar neurological and perceptual super powers. But then, mathematicians do possess highly developed visualisation abilities and intuitions, which might well be called super powers.
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Some #musicians have #PerfectPitch. Some even have #Synaesthesia. Lucky blighters.
I wonder what would happen if some #mathematicians have a similar neurological and perceptual super powers. But then, mathematicians do possess highly developed visualisation abilities and intuitions, which might well be called super powers.
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Some #musicians have #PerfectPitch. Some even have #Synaesthesia. Lucky blighters.
I wonder what would happen if some #mathematicians have a similar neurological and perceptual super powers. But then, mathematicians do possess highly developed visualisation abilities and intuitions, which might well be called super powers.
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Some #musicians have #PerfectPitch. Some even have #Synaesthesia. Lucky blighters.
I wonder what would happen if some #mathematicians have a similar neurological and perceptual super powers. But then, mathematicians do possess highly developed visualisation abilities and intuitions, which might well be called super powers.
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#MastodonScience, note that this affects all the StackExchange websites, including e.g. #MathOverflow (used by professional #mathematicians) and all those more used by #students, such as #physics.SE, #biology.SE, ... which are currently far from bad in general.
On top of having to mark #AI student papers, lecturers will have to deal with misconceptions self-reinforced by super confident AI explaining out science there.
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#MastodonScience, note that this affects all the StackExchange websites, including e.g. #MathOverflow (used by professional #mathematicians) and all those more used by #students, such as #physics.SE, #biology.SE, ... which are currently far from bad in general.
On top of having to mark #AI student papers, lecturers will have to deal with misconceptions self-reinforced by super confident AI explaining out science there.
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#MastodonScience, note that this affects all the StackExchange websites, including e.g. #MathOverflow (used by professional #mathematicians) and all those more used by #students, such as #physics.SE, #biology.SE, ... which are currently far from bad in general.
On top of having to mark #AI student papers, lecturers will have to deal with misconceptions self-reinforced by super confident AI explaining out science there.
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#MastodonScience, note that this affects all the StackExchange websites, including e.g. #MathOverflow (used by professional #mathematicians) and all those more used by #students, such as #physics.SE, #biology.SE, ... which are currently far from bad in general.
On top of having to mark #AI student papers, lecturers will have to deal with misconceptions self-reinforced by super confident AI explaining out science there.
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#MastodonScience, note that this affects all the StackExchange websites, including e.g. #MathOverflow (used by professional #mathematicians) and all those more used by #students, such as #physics.SE, #biology.SE, ... which are currently far from bad in general.
On top of having to mark #AI student papers, lecturers will have to deal with misconceptions self-reinforced by super confident AI explaining out science there.
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Saw this nascent #macropad for #mathematicians and thought of #mathstodon
Their slogan is "Type equations at the speed of thought with this specialized keypad".
https://www.crowdsupply.com/summa-cogni/mathpad
I'm not a mathematician, so if I've missed any hashtags out please feel free to add them by reply!
#math #maths #mathematics #computing #latex #knuth #keyboard #keyboards #typing #macropads
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New #Qubit circuit enables #Quantum operations with higher accuracy : Tech Review
20 #Films about #Math, #Mathematicians and math #Geniuses : Misc
Looking to #Space in the Race to #Decarbonize : NY Times
Check our latest #KnowledgeLinks
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I am extraordinarily fortunate to work with #Moodle in my job for @catalysteu I am additionally fortunate to have been working on the #STACK #maths #question type for much of the last year. #math is too important to be left just to #mathematicians
I have collaborated on a blog post that covers STACK and our STACK hosting service which you can read here.
Moodle and the STACK software are available under the #GPL license.
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I am extraordinarily fortunate to work with #Moodle in my job for @catalysteu I am additionally fortunate to have been working on the #STACK #maths #question type for much of the last year. #math is too important to be left just to #mathematicians
I have collaborated on a blog post that covers STACK and our STACK hosting service which you can read here.
Moodle and the STACK software are available under the #GPL license.
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I am extraordinarily fortunate to work with #Moodle in my job for @catalysteu I am additionally fortunate to have been working on the #STACK #maths #question type for much of the last year. #math is too important to be left just to #mathematicians
I have collaborated on a blog post that covers STACK and our STACK hosting service which you can read here.
Moodle and the STACK software are available under the #GPL license.
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I am extraordinarily fortunate to work with #Moodle in my job for @catalysteu I am additionally fortunate to have been working on the #STACK #maths #question type for much of the last year. #math is too important to be left just to #mathematicians
I have collaborated on a blog post that covers STACK and our STACK hosting service which you can read here.
Moodle and the STACK software are available under the #GPL license.
