#Mathematician

Robert McNees

mcnees

Mathematician Irene Stegun was born #OTD in 1919. A major contributor to the Works Progress Administration’s Mathematical Tables Project, she’s probably best known as co-author of the classic “A Handbook

India Wants To Know - Panel Quiz Show

IWTKQuiz

Shakuntala Devi is often described as "India's most famous woman mathematician". Her biopic led discussion like what does a mathematician do? Is mathematics all about performing massive computations? Or is

स्वधाऽहम

urthinkinboutme

''The man who knew INFINITY ''Shrinivasa Ramanujan was an Indian Mathematician who made great and original contributions to many mathematical fields , including ▪︎Complex Numbers ▪︎ Number Theory ▪︎ Infinity

Bhaskar Kamble

MeruPrastara

I have always suspected that the narrative of the "Islamic Golden Age", "Islamic Mathematics" or "Arabic Mathematicians" is just myth and propaganda. In this thread I explain why. (cc @GarudaPrakashan,

Sarah-Leigh Elago

GeniusLeigh

A counterpart was gaaning aan on our green app group on how Joe Biden is the answer to the USA and the world etc, I check on in silence. See,

Michael Kinyon

ProfKinyon

Teichmuller, Kahler, Vahlen, Bieberbach, Gentzen, Blaschke, Brandt, Witt....All mathematicians, all Nazis.Every one disgusts me.The one that haunts me the most is Ernst Witt.(1/11) To personalize the story: In 1999, I

Ranthony A.C. Edmonds, PhD

RanthonyEdmonds

Will you be the 220 to my 284?For centuries, special numbers called amicable pairs have been associated with love and friendship. In fact, amicable pairs are often referred to as

True Indology

TIinExile

Today, the World celebrates #Fibonacci day."Fibonacci sequence is nature's code. It is in everything from flowers to storm systems to the shape of galaxies"- they said, crediting Mr. Fibonacci for

Ian Young

ianjamesyoung70

Four months ago BC was registering abt 20 covid cases a day. Three months ago, abt 50. Two months, 100. Last month, 200 cases. Today, FIVE HUNDRED & EIGHTY NINE

Raven the Science Maven

ravenscimaven

When I was teaching high school chemistry, I would pretend to be stuck on a math problem and called the math teacher down a couple of times to help teach

EveJustWantedToKnowShit⏳

myfinewords

THREAD:"Effect and Cause..."Almost a decade ago, I saw a documentary called The New Nostradamus. Well, it was called something like that, but I'll be damned if I can find it

Caraid

CaraidArt

It's been said before in a lot of different ways, but being able to draw things accurately from memory is not the pinnacle of being a good artist. It's a

Right Singh

rightwingchora

The Art. The Artist. Please note Acharya Bhatt was not the only contributer but there were

Howard Tayler

howardtayler

If someone in your TL is screaming "Benford's Law" in the same breath as "election fraud," this is worth a listen. Also worth a listen if you like learning things.https://twitter.com/agolis/status/1328389237234929668

anmillermath

anmillermath

At Quite Prestigious Institution (QPI) I know well, there was a postdoc who was hired (with, I believe, an extra year) without having any publications. It was evidently widely agreed

Nikhil Nayak

nayaknikhil007

Development of zero as a mathematical concept may have been inspired by India’s long philosophical tradition and a culture that is quite happy to conceive of the void (Shunya- symbol

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