#Mathematical

vitalik.eth

VitalikButerin

Prediction:The megatrend in cryptography of the 2010s was elliptic curves, pairings and general purpose ZKPs/SNARKs.The megatrend of the 2020s will be (in addition to broad adoption of the above) lattices,

Timothy Gowers

wtgowers

A bizarre discussion is going on on Twitter at the moment, concerning whether 2+2=5. Apparently, it's "woke" to try to undermine the truth we all know, that 2+2=4. As a

Sarah Salviander

sarahsalviander

A few days ago, I posted some commentary on a video of a young woman asking how anyone thought to come up with algebra. Some of y'all thought the question

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anabhu

Absolutely cool thing I learnt today. There's an IIT Bombay Grad, University of Michigan resident prof by the name Divakar Vishwanath. He has a mathematical constant in his name. Like

Sridhar Vembu

svembu

1/ There is this technocratic idea that Economics is a scientific discipline like Physics. Not true.Subject to the "conservation law" that the world cannot consume what it has not produced

Downlands Maths

downlands_maths

Each day during the holiday we will try to send out some puzzles or mathematical things to do. Some you'll rush through, I'm sure, others might take longer!#holidaymaths #StayHomeSaveLives We

Quanta Magazine

QuantaMagazine

Mathematician John Horton Conway died on Saturday at age 82, reportedly from COVID-19. In “Genius At Play,” @sioroberts’ 2015 biography of Conway, she described him as “somewhere between ‘The Hobbit’s’

Sonia

yet_so_far

I’m starting to strongly believe that mathematics is neither “obvious” nor “natural”.https://twitter.com/yet_so_far/status/1291867429245722630 I am not an expert on cognition, so what follows is pure shitpost, but let us think abo

basavasagar

basavasagar18

Thread 1/10:Amazing 5 days at #ICLR2021, just a few thoughts that I want to keep note of from all the mentor session, papers which caught my eye, socials, invited talks

David "Stay Home" Eccles (Māo/32)

gringene_bio

Maybe it'd be a good idea to label "efficient mathematical terminology" with the meanings of different parts, so that more people can quickly understand them.https://twitter.com/ProfDFrancis/status/1250312390274498562 Example - basicall

anton

atroyn

“math is racist” discourse is incredibly frustrating because it’s two groups of people talking past each other about something they should fundamentally agree on; math education at the primary and

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sarah_ogun

I’m sorry but they lied to y’all, mathematics is also socially constructed. Symbolic Logic is fake!! George Boole dead modeled it after colonial thought patterns, this is not how people

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algebrandis

mathematicians will be very careful when stating arguments in areas of math they haven't spent time thinking about, but they'll act like the mfing authority on social theory without batting

Budiman Sudjatmiko (IG: budimaninovator)

budimandjatmiko

Jika Teori Loop Quantum Gravity benar bahwa waktu itu berhenti di level subatomik, maka yg disebut peristiwa sejarah itu cuma brojolan (emergence). Dan jika teknologi Antarmuka Otak Komputer bisa menghapus

Grushin

aggrushin

Amorphous solids are not as random! In our new work we studied, with Q. Marsal and @danielvarjas how to describe topological phases in amorphous lattices! Check this and the

NEET Lovecraft

imissing4skin

I think there is a repressing sanitisation when abortionists speak use the phrase "a clump of cells", it brings some variation of a Venn diagram to mind, it's mathematical, abstract