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  1. "Le monde matériel commence à sembler si trivial, si arbitraire, si éphémère, par contraste avec la beauté intemporelle des mathématiques." – William Dunham (1947-)
    #citation #mathématiques #maths #math

  2. "The material world begins to seem so trivial, so arbitrary, so ephemeral when contrasted with the timeless beauty of mathematics." – William Dunham (1947-)
    #quote #mathematics #math #maths

  3. RE: mastodon.social/@kottke/116648

    Imagine a US where the population was so well educated that they didn't need a food related analogy in order to understand percentages.
    #maths #education :-)

  4. The Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences 2026 is awarded to Emmanuel Candès and Camillo De Lellis, "for their breakthrough contributions to the use of deep techniques from mathematical analysis to rigorously understand applied problems in information theory, signal processing and statistics on the one hand, and to the study of singularities in geometric measure theory and fluid dynamics on the other."

    shawprize.org/en/prizes-laurea
    #mathematics #mathématiques #maths #math

  5. 28 mai 1676 : #CeJourLà naissance de Jacopo Riccati (†15/4/1754), mathématicien italien connu pour l'équation différentielle qui porte son nom.
    fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacopo_R
    #mathématiques #maths #math

  6. "À l'aide du symbolisme, nous pouvons effectuer visuellement dans les raisonnements des transitions presque mécaniques, qui autrement feraient appel aux facultés supérieures du cerveau." – Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947)
    #citation #mathématiques #maths #math

  7. "By the aid of symbolism, we can make transitions in reasoning almost mechanically by the eye, which otherwise would call into play the higher faculties of the brain." – Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947)
    #quote #mathematics #math #maths