#Mathematics

I'm not sure that I agree with all of the framing in this document, but the underlying ideas are well-founded. research indicates that students who are ESL &/or are "non-standard"
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1/There are shining examples of the fact that mathematics is not a “boys only” club.One among these is Gabrielle Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, marquise du Châtelet (Dec 17, 1706
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Much tea has been spilled about how Batman is awful because he could do much more good by spending his money on social programs. This is an entirely valid reading
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India has been a pioneer in the field of science and philosophy since ancient times. In the Pauranik period, the sages of India had discovered about most everything which they
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(ii). "oh we invented Algebra. It is Halal" Ad-homniem & Red-herring at best. This bigoted comment exposes typical sanghi attitude of @BharadwajSpeaks here who's biased & nit-picking in his thread.
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I just found out about Margaret Oakley Dayhoff, who is the founder of bioinformatics. Also (and that’s how I came to know her work) the inventor of the one-letter code
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I hope they catch him. If he's still alive, he'd be in his 70's or 80's. He's clearly intelligent, yet he chooses to misspell words and sound crazy. I'd guess
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This younger generation would definitely be smarter and be able to run some pranks on us like we also did to our older generation Just read how this 14 yr
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Ok I've been thinking more about why it the culture war periodically generates heated disputes about, like, correspondence theory of truth or non-standard models of arithmetic - intensely abstract things
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NZ teens record record low scores maths and science.I'm going to lay the blame for this at the feet of Anne Tolley & Hekia Parata:* the dropping of Numeracy advisors
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Just got my account back after Twitter locked it for retweeting a tweet about Benford's law and the US presidential election.Benford's law/law of anomalous numbers is an observation about the
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Did you know that there was a time when the universe was blue? But if you were there, you would not be able to see it. Let’s try and understand
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I’ve been off Twitter for a few days and realise I missed out on the great ‘2 + 2 = 5’/’trans women are women’ debate. As someone who has written
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1. "Mathematical models are a great way to explore questions. They are also a dangerous way to assert answers. Asking models for certainty or consensus is more a sign of
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Do you notice how everything is like this now? "Speak your truth", "uh I'm gonna need a source for that" (and they keep searching until they find a title of
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Today is Jayanti of Satyendranath Bose or more popularly known as S.N.Bose. Well known for the Bose-Einstein condensate theory. And also a class of particles called Bosons named after him
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