#Algebra

Kent Fellows

GK_Fellows

Today in "Tweets for no one"It feels somehow wrong to me that Prais-Winston was published in 1954 while Newey-West was published in 1986... Newey always feels like a bit of

Calling BS on Silicon Valley's AI dudebros

ai_calling

1/11 Wanna learn machine learning? Stop following "influencers" who sell snake oil for self promotion. There are plenty of incredible scientists, engineers, and professors who've made a lot of materials

Nikita Lisitsa

lisyarus

As requested by @j_bertolotti, a thread on covariance/contravariance as found in linear algebra & differential geometry.Thing is, these have nothing to do with vectors or geometry, but rather a fundamental

Rory - ADHD Autistic OCD

roryreckons

A lot of neurodivergent people tend to be analogous learners - which makes the current education system completely unsuitable - the wider I was educated the better I understood everything.

Monise L. Seward

MoniseLSeward

Alright...I'm gonna bombard y'all with #MathThoughts tomorrow.Or maybe not. This may only be 1 tweet, but here goes:#Math teachers, what are you willing to do/abandon to 'push' your kids closer

Jeffrey Wooldridge

jmwooldridge

A year ago on Facebook, at the request of a former MSU student, I made this post. I used to say in class that econometrics is not so hard if

Alex Kontorovich

AlexKontorovich

Yeah, this is one of the craziest stories in the history of math, and deserves to be better known!In the mid-1500s, Cardano (building on del Ferro and Tartaglia, not entirely

MD or Bust - The Equitable Autist-Knowledge Magpie

appyjumpindaze

Someone pointed out that most ND advocacy is Autism/ADHD so I am going to start a dyscalculia seriesDyscalculia is hard to advocate for. People don't seem to care if you

Gabrielle

SWTestEnabler

My dad let me help him copy code from a book to the computer. It was a game for me. He let me be around his power tools, and encouraged

Andrej Bauer

andrejbauer

Why do we define logical implication p ⇒ q the way we do? Is it an arbitrary convention, just a shorthand for ¬p ∨ q, or a fundamental concept of

Kevin Buzzard

XenaProject

Random Fermat's Last Theorem observation: the bridge between analysis and algebra in it is nonconstructive. Chris Birkbeck, a post-doc at UCL, has been making modular forms in Lean. He

Harrison Cole

HarrisonCarto

I once had a student come to my office hours because she couldn't figure out how to paste screenshots into Word. Turns out her laptop was *the first computer that

alex green

GoHerping

Can a big brain pls turn this into a google spreadsheet formula function((X-7.30)-(0.29*X))*0.65ok I need X to be a cell. subtract 7.3. Then, 2.9% of X is subtracted. Then, I

Brandon Hannibal Donkey

RealBrandonDonk

THREAD - Gracie here asks the question: Why did anyone come up with algebra?She states that she thinks math (I think she means higher math) isn't real because to her

category fibered in sarahzrfs

sarah_zrf

so i started a thread on this where i began from a very big picture and started drilling in, but i ended up in a rather abstract place which was

Manish

ManishEarth

so last weekend @raphlinus told me about using geometric algebra instead of homogeneous/projection space matrices to do geometry (siggraph talk linked)and i had some Physicist Thoughtshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tX4H_ctggYo warning, most of this