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Great Women of Mathematics
GWOMaths
GREAT WOMAN OF MATHEMATICS: MARY GOLDA ROSS, 1908-2008. Mary Golda Ross was the first Native American woman to become an engineer. The great-granddaughter of a Cherokee Chief, she grew up
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Joshua Bowman
Thalesdisciple
I know the 2+2=4 discourse is no longer raging, but I want to add a point that I hadn’t seen made: *of course* mathematics is cultural, and on the whole
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Fateh Singh | MIND SURGEON
fatehshernu
1. The Origins of Indian Civilization go back to the end of the last Ice Age, more than 10,000 years ago.2. Archeologically, India has the most extensive and CONTINUOUS record
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Greg Muller (Dr Math)
Morilac
Watching music theory reckon with structural racism and entrenched white supremacy has me pondering similar issues structural issues in who we venerate in mathematics. We have our Schenkers, undoubtedly; Teichmüller,
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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
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Alexandre Truc
alxndr_trc
1/ Is economics insular to external influence? Is it becoming more interdisciplinary? We measured the ratio of extradisciplinary citations (COC) of economics and compared it to other social sciences and
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Joseph T Noony
JoeAgneya
"There is no connection between Issac Newton/British Universities and Jesuit missionaries. Thus Newton could not have learned calculus from them"- A commentator challenged me.A silly claim. But here are the
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lindsay 🇵🇭🏳️🌈🐷💤
tragicmaharlika
there was an ableist post going around shaming people who dont memorize the multiplication tabletake it from me, top student in mathematics (in my batch) and a contestant in local
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Joseph T Noony
JoeAgneya
Pramanas- Sources of knowledge in Indian philosophyVedic-Śruti(Vedas) supreme!Nyaya-Pratyakṣa(Empirical)>Anumāna(Inference)Jaina-Intuition supreme!Buddhist-Empirical>>inferenceCharvaka-Empirical supreme!Ancient Greeks-Inference
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Mohamed ElTanbouly
Plasmacellguy
"How Hard It is Seeing What Is In Front Of Your Eyes" is probably one of the most sentimental and insightful scientific articles of advice I ever read https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(18)30795-5#.YAzEbAVy3R4.twitter
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Haji 👳🏿♂️
AlhajiAraphat
It’s a OR thread Pick one Coke or Pepsi? Fanta or Mirinda? Sneakers or Shoes ? Jeans or Dress? Rice or Beans? Football or Basketball? iPhone or Samsung? Bitcoin or
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Sunny Pagare
19SunSunny
Mathematics was a chapter in astronomy booksGanitam गणितं (maths) was a chapter in Jyotisham ज्योतिषं books. Jyotisha is astrology, isnt it? Or is it astronomy? Was it superstition or science or an inseparable
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Daniel Litt
littmath
Since people are taking this joke tweet seriously, here’s my real take: there’s no reason to think mathematics is effective in the natural sciences at all. IMO most scientific “explanations”
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
nntaleb
EDUCATION.Distilling the conversation with @bryan_caplan hosted by @tylercowen 1) There has been a traditional separation between: + "liberal education" for free men, (liber), who didn't work for a living,
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Vincent Walsh
vinwalsh
Implicit Bias. Good article on the nonsense of pretending it has a place in training and policy. Employing the wrong method for righteous, heartfelt reasons isn't helpful. It's the homeopathy
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Welsh Psychedelic Community 🍄🏴
society_welsh
Psychedelics are powerful substancesScience is again trying to explore and explain this. Science uses a reductive, physicalist approach to what is essentially a very personal, indescribable numinous experience.The benefits I
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