#Mathematics

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JayCostTWS

Sixteen years ago this month, I got my start in punditry by starting a blog, "The HorseRaceBlog," analyzing polls, early voting trends, and candidate visits to predict the final election

sebidscap

sebidscap

"When you study mathematics, statistics is far more important than calculus, so you must study it well. This is because virtually all problems in the real world are statistical problems"

Brainiac

Th3Brainiac

Here it is folks.~Consciousness~//THREADED//(1/15) Highly Controversial Topic May cause some symptoms of existentialism. This thread is not meant to convenience you of anything.Just thought it was fun to put

Brain Valley 🧠✍️

brainvalleysays

How to think and solve complex problems?-A Thread on First Principles Thinking- A first principle is a proposition or an assumption that cannot be deduced from any other proposition or

Thrinadh Reddy

thrinadhreddyb

A clear cut understanding of concepts is needed, if we want to implement mathematics around it. If a student understands what is a zener diode and all the history and

pete wolfendale

deontologistics

This morning I'm pondering some early influences on my thinking that I don't talk about so much: Quine's 'Two Dogmas of Empiricism' and the later Wittgenstein, especially On Certainty. These

Dr. Laura Humphreys

TweetingBogart

I normally try and do some Christmas shopping in museum shops, but that's all going to be online this year, and I want to #SupportMuseumShops as much as I can.

Mostly Borrowed Ideas

borrowed_ideas

1/ Thread: Half-life of InvestingUntil 1965, medical students were taught the number of chromosome in a human cell to be 48.What was remarkable is two researchers found the number to

Owain Evans

OwainEvans_UK

1/ Second thread on exciting philosophy from outside philosophy departments...https://twitter.com/OwainEvans_UK/status/1326645830963634179 2/ Gerry Sussman. Hofstadter said Gödel invented LISP in proving the incompleteness theorem. Sussman

Robert McNees

mcnees

The mathematician Karl Weierstrass was born #OTD, Halloween, in 1815. The fools at the academy all said he was mad, but in 1872 he announced that he had succeeded in

Bharadwaj

BharadwajSpeaks

This is THEFT! Indians had Algebra BEFORE Mμslim prophet & religion was even born.Here is Bakhshali Manuscript dating back to 3rd century CE. It is an Algebraic treatise. Have you

Joseph T Noony

JoeAgneya

At that time, Europe was struggling with a calendar problem-Their Julian calendar with leaps years had cumulatively lost 8 days by 1200s & kept getting worse! Pope Gregory ordered the

Ryan Campbell

ryandal

This is article we should all be reading. The single greatest article on prog trad minimal guidance v full guidance there is. It shows the way to a Montefiore solution

Holly, post-apocalypse elf.

hollymathnerd

ON LOCKDOWNS: Occasionally I see someone (so far, it's always someone with a family and an income they can bring in from home) arguing that America never had a "real"

ProfGhristMath

robertghrist

a quick thread on what the @penn mathematics department is doing starting this fall to improve the student experience in calculus courses... 1/ of course, this is motivated by the

Juan Jose Fernandez

z9sx7wox

I'm curious about the origins of the class name "Language Arts" in elementary and middle schools in the US. It's defined as 'the study of grammar, composition, spelling, and (sometimes)

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