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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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👨🏫✨ Oh, the pure joy of watching Andrew Wiles recount the euphoria of solving a centuries-old math problem, complete with the riveting excitement of YouTube's privacy policy and terms of service! 📜🔍 Because nothing screams "high drama" like legal jargon and #copyright notices. 🙄📽️
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GS7CxAtV5Ks #AndrewWiles #MathHistory #YouTubePrivacy #LegalDrama #HackerNews #ngated -
👨🏫✨ Oh, the pure joy of watching Andrew Wiles recount the euphoria of solving a centuries-old math problem, complete with the riveting excitement of YouTube's privacy policy and terms of service! 📜🔍 Because nothing screams "high drama" like legal jargon and #copyright notices. 🙄📽️
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GS7CxAtV5Ks #AndrewWiles #MathHistory #YouTubePrivacy #LegalDrama #HackerNews #ngated -
“If I were to awaken after having slept for a thousand years, my first question would be: Has the Riemann hypothesis been proven?” – David Hilbert
#RiemannHypothesis #DavidHilbert #RiemannZetaFunction #ZetaFunction #UnsolvedProblem #MathHistory #Hilbert #Riemann
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From a Mathematical Curiosity to the Foundation of Internet Security 🧮🧐🔐✨
In 1636, Pierre de Fermat made a remarkable observation: if you take an integer a, raise it to a prime power p, and then subtract a, the result is always divisible by p. In other words, for a prime p,
aᵖ ≡ a (mod p).
For example, when p = 5:
2⁵ − 2 = 30, which is divisible by 5, and
3⁵ − 3 = 240, which is also divisible by 5.Fermat found this property elegant and tried to spark interest in this curious corner of mathematics. Not everyone was impressed. John Wallis reportedly dismissed such results, remarking, “Big deal; I could find other relationships just as interesting without much effort, and none of them are important.”
About a century later, Leonhard Euler was encouraged by Christian Goldbach to study Fermat’s ideas. Though initially unenthusiastic, Euler soon uncovered deeper structure within them. His work laid much of the foundation for what we now call modern number theory.
#Mathematics #Math #NumberTheory #Fermat #Euler #EulerTheorem #FermatsLittleTheorem #ModularArithmetic #RSA #Cryptography #CyberSecurity #HistoryOfMathematics #MathHistory #PrimeNumbers #EulerTotient #AbstractMath #PureMathematics #STEM #ScienceCommunication #MathEducation #EducationalContent #DidYouKnow #MathematicalBeauty #InternetSecurity #Encryption #Curiosity #Innovation #History #Learning #Knowledge
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From a Mathematical Curiosity to the Foundation of Internet Security 🧮🧐🔐✨
In 1636, Pierre de Fermat made a remarkable observation: if you take an integer a, raise it to a prime power p, and then subtract a, the result is always divisible by p. In other words, for a prime p,
aᵖ ≡ a (mod p).
For example, when p = 5:
2⁵ − 2 = 30, which is divisible by 5, and
3⁵ − 3 = 240, which is also divisible by 5.Fermat found this property elegant and tried to spark interest in this curious corner of mathematics. Not everyone was impressed. John Wallis reportedly dismissed such results, remarking, “Big deal; I could find other relationships just as interesting without much effort, and none of them are important.”
About a century later, Leonhard Euler was encouraged by Christian Goldbach to study Fermat’s ideas. Though initially unenthusiastic, Euler soon uncovered deeper structure within them. His work laid much of the foundation for what we now call modern number theory.
#Mathematics #Math #NumberTheory #Fermat #Euler #EulerTheorem #FermatsLittleTheorem #ModularArithmetic #RSA #Cryptography #CyberSecurity #HistoryOfMathematics #MathHistory #PrimeNumbers #EulerTotient #AbstractMath #PureMathematics #STEM #ScienceCommunication #MathEducation #EducationalContent #DidYouKnow #MathematicalBeauty #InternetSecurity #Encryption #Curiosity #Innovation #History #Learning #Knowledge
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Ah, the riveting tale of math's linguistic struggle from Latin to English—because apparently, people in the #1500s had nothing better to do. 🤓📚 Let's celebrate the groundbreaking revelation that math books eventually switched languages...in only 48 years! 🎉📖 Who knew math was such a drama queen? 🤔💁♂️
https://tyndale.org/journals/reformj01/bmarsden.html #mathhistory #languagechange #linguisticdrama #education #HackerNews #ngated -
Ah, the riveting tale of math's linguistic struggle from Latin to English—because apparently, people in the #1500s had nothing better to do. 🤓📚 Let's celebrate the groundbreaking revelation that math books eventually switched languages...in only 48 years! 🎉📖 Who knew math was such a drama queen? 🤔💁♂️
https://tyndale.org/journals/reformj01/bmarsden.html #mathhistory #languagechange #linguisticdrama #education #HackerNews #ngated -
Alexander Grothendieck Revolutionized 20th-Century Mathematics
#HackerNews #AlexanderGrothendieck #Mathematics #Revolution #20thCentury #MathHistory
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Alexander Grothendieck Revolutionized 20th-Century Mathematics
#HackerNews #AlexanderGrothendieck #Mathematics #Revolution #20thCentury #MathHistory
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An amateur just solved a 60-year-old math problem–by asking AI
#HackerNews #amateurmath #AIinnovation #problem-solving #mathhistory
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An amateur just solved a 60-year-old math problem–by asking AI
#HackerNews #amateurmath #AIinnovation #problem-solving #mathhistory
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I had a lot of fun investigating fast ways to generate sine waves:
https://remcycles.net/blog/viete_cheb.htmlThese digital quadrature oscillators were part of my presentation at the Signal Processing Summit and DSP Online Conference about sonifying the tides by adding up sine waves.
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📜💻 Behold, the saga continues with a thrilling tale of 17th-century "computers" – aka glorified abacuses with delusions of grandeur! 🧮⚙️ Dive into this riveting sequel of ancient calculators, where Pascal and Leibniz squabble over who invented the first math machine, and we pretend it's relevant in 2025. 📅🤦♂️
https://www.oranlooney.com/post/history-of-computing-2/ #ancientcomputers #mathhistory #techhumor #pascalvsleibniz #historicalinventions #HackerNews #ngated -
📜💻 Behold, the saga continues with a thrilling tale of 17th-century "computers" – aka glorified abacuses with delusions of grandeur! 🧮⚙️ Dive into this riveting sequel of ancient calculators, where Pascal and Leibniz squabble over who invented the first math machine, and we pretend it's relevant in 2025. 📅🤦♂️
https://www.oranlooney.com/post/history-of-computing-2/ #ancientcomputers #mathhistory #techhumor #pascalvsleibniz #historicalinventions #HackerNews #ngated -
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If birds are getting renamed, why can't we rename Lemma and Theorems?
Is there anything in the works I am unaware of?
I throw out mathober prompts all the time when I currate the list that have peoples names.
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If birds are getting renamed, why can't we rename Lemma and Theorems?
Is there anything in the works I am unaware of?
I throw out mathober prompts all the time when I currate the list that have peoples names.
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📖🤓 Ah, the riveting world of math symbols—because obviously, everyone is desperate to know why their #calculator has more obscure squiggles than a modern #art exhibit. 😴🔢 Dr. Drang's deep dive into Rojas's dusty tome is surely what the Internet was clamoring for—because who doesn't want to cozy up with a thrilling bedtime story about the Ampersand? 💤📚
https://leancrew.com/all-this/2025/06/math-symbol-frequencies/ #mathsymbols #mathhistory #DrDrang #Rojas #HackerNews #ngated -
📖🤓 Ah, the riveting world of math symbols—because obviously, everyone is desperate to know why their #calculator has more obscure squiggles than a modern #art exhibit. 😴🔢 Dr. Drang's deep dive into Rojas's dusty tome is surely what the Internet was clamoring for—because who doesn't want to cozy up with a thrilling bedtime story about the Ampersand? 💤📚
https://leancrew.com/all-this/2025/06/math-symbol-frequencies/ #mathsymbols #mathhistory #DrDrang #Rojas #HackerNews #ngated -
`Although the term "matrix" was introduced into mathematical literature by James Joseph Sylvester in 1850, the credit for founding the theory of matrices must be given to Arthur Cayley, since he published the first expository articles on the subject. ... Cayley's introductory paper in matrix theory was written in French and published in a German periodical [in 1855]`
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`Although the term "matrix" was introduced into mathematical literature by James Joseph Sylvester in 1850, the credit for founding the theory of matrices must be given to Arthur Cayley, since he published the first expository articles on the subject. ... Cayley's introductory paper in matrix theory was written in French and published in a German periodical [in 1855]`
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OMG, it took humanity 100 years to solve a math problem that today’s students learn in a week?! 🤯 Must've been a wild ride from "How do we map this circle with straight lines?" to "Oops, we solved it by accident!" 🗺️📜 Guess Mercator should've just waited for the next edition of "Calculus for Dummies!" 📚🤣
https://liorsinai.github.io/mathematics/2020/08/27/secant-mercator.html #mathhistory #education #mathproblems #problemSolving #calculus #funfacts #HackerNews #ngated -
OMG, it took humanity 100 years to solve a math problem that today’s students learn in a week?! 🤯 Must've been a wild ride from "How do we map this circle with straight lines?" to "Oops, we solved it by accident!" 🗺️📜 Guess Mercator should've just waited for the next edition of "Calculus for Dummies!" 📚🤣
https://liorsinai.github.io/mathematics/2020/08/27/secant-mercator.html #mathhistory #education #mathproblems #problemSolving #calculus #funfacts #HackerNews #ngated -
100 Years to Solve an Integral (2020)
https://liorsinai.github.io/mathematics/2020/08/27/secant-mercator.html
#HackerNews #100YearsToSolveAnIntegral #Integral #Mathematics #SecantMercator #HackerNews #MathHistory
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100 Years to Solve an Integral (2020)
https://liorsinai.github.io/mathematics/2020/08/27/secant-mercator.html
#HackerNews #100YearsToSolveAnIntegral #Integral #Mathematics #SecantMercator #HackerNews #MathHistory
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The #irony is palpable: a piece on #logarithms that's as accessible as a locked vault in Fort Knox, courtesy of #ModSecurity 😂🔒. This riveting read on mathematical history has been replaced by the stark beauty of a 406 error page—truly a triumph of modern web design! 🚫📉
https://www.lostartoflogarithms.com/ #webdesign #406error #mathhistory #HackerNews #ngated -
The #irony is palpable: a piece on #logarithms that's as accessible as a locked vault in Fort Knox, courtesy of #ModSecurity 😂🔒. This riveting read on mathematical history has been replaced by the stark beauty of a 406 error page—truly a triumph of modern web design! 🚫📉
https://www.lostartoflogarithms.com/ #webdesign #406error #mathhistory #HackerNews #ngated -
It's well-known that the ancient Greek had a huge influence on math, but it just occurred to me: Did the Romans do anything?
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It's well-known that the ancient Greek had a huge influence on math, but it just occurred to me: Did the Romans do anything?
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The Quest to Decode the Mandelbrot Set, Math’s Famed Fractal
By Jordana Cepelewicz
For decades, a small group of mathematicians has patiently unraveled the mystery of what was once math’s most popular picture. Their story shows how technology transforms even the most abstract mathematical landscapes.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-quest-to-decode-the-mandelbrot-set-maths-famed-fractal-20240126/
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The Quest to Decode the Mandelbrot Set, Math’s Famed Fractal
By Jordana Cepelewicz
For decades, a small group of mathematicians has patiently unraveled the mystery of what was once math’s most popular picture. Their story shows how technology transforms even the most abstract mathematical landscapes.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-quest-to-decode-the-mandelbrot-set-maths-famed-fractal-20240126/
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Ever wondered since when the symbol = has been in use to claim equality of mathematical terms or equations?
MacTutor by the University of St. Andrews provides Math-history background on this as well as on many other subjects.
Go down the rabbit hole here:
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🏛🖼 We've rearranged the exhibition space. Feel free to visit the Wall of Giants and the Giants of Information Technology. Which historical figure from this field has inspired you the most? 😍
#computermuseum #computerhistory #slovenia #ljubljana #softwareheritage #digitalheritage #nostalgia #nostalgie #nostalgi #retrocomputing #vintage #vintagecomputer #vintagecomputing #retro #europee #MundoRetro #algebra #mathematics #mathhistory #AlKhwarizmi #algorithms #adalovelace #turing #alanturing
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🏛🖼 We've rearranged the exhibition space. Feel free to visit the Wall of Giants and the Giants of Information Technology. Which historical figure from this field has inspired you the most? 😍
#computermuseum #computerhistory #slovenia #ljubljana #softwareheritage #digitalheritage #nostalgia #nostalgie #nostalgi #retrocomputing #vintage #vintagecomputer #vintagecomputing #retro #europee #MundoRetro #algebra #mathematics #mathhistory #AlKhwarizmi #algorithms #adalovelace #turing #alanturing
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Anyone know the story behind this great #mathhistory photo? https://www.tumblr.com/mathhombre/728354825487712256/atiyah-and-grothendieck?source=share
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Anyone know the story behind this great #mathhistory photo? https://www.tumblr.com/mathhombre/728354825487712256/atiyah-and-grothendieck?source=share
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Fun from Joel David Hamkins https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGIA2U2iPCk #mathhistory #mathsong
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von Neumann’s letter has it all: a discussion of the theory of spectra of Hermitian operators, inquiries about spin-geometries and not least of all, gossip. Lots of gossips. 🔗 https://www.cantorsparadise.com/john-von-neumanns-1935-letter-to-oswald-veblen-3acbe1b69098
#vonNeumann #JoohnvonNeumann #CantorsParadise #Hermitian #HermitianOperator #SelectedLetters #HermitianOperators #Neumann #MathHistory #Mathematics #MathsHistory
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The #SuryaSiddhanta's methods for calculating the positions of the sun and moon at times specify that the absolute value of the jya of an arc must be added to some value in some cases, and subtracted in others.
Since the jya is the predecessor to the modern sine, in this we see the earliest inklings of negative values of trigonometric functions. It's interesting how ideas develop.