#Mathematical

Sean Carroll

seanmcarroll

Roger Penrose won the Nobel Prize for showing that black holes are an almost-unavoidable prediction of classical general relativity. Let's take a peek into what that entailed. 1/n Einstein wrote

Becky Warren

becky_k_warren

I made some similar right angles triangles from red and orange card for today’s #mathartchallenge from @anniek_p.Here is a thread following some of my explorations. I really enjoyed playing with

A.M.

bhalomanush

So much of the early history of microbiology and epidemiology is tied to India- not just Ross and malaria or Brahmachari and the treatment for leishmaniasis but the first clinical

Carles Gelada

carlesgelada

Controversial opinion: We should stop teaching students any ML methods other than neural networks. There is so much inertia against forgetting things that never panned out. It's hard to let

Great Women of Mathematics

GWOMaths

GREAT WOMAN OF MATHEMATICS: WANG ZHENYI, 1768-1797. Born at a time when Neo-Confucianism, a conservative strain of social philosophy, was ascendant, Zhenyi (Wang is the family name) had a lot

Chris Armstrong

DrCDArmstrong

The problem with this isn't that it's mathematically bad, it's that it's appropriating mathematical ideas (wrongly) to suggest some certainty and science behind it. There's an entire cottage industry of

🛠️ Dr. Rhiannon Dauster 🛠️

RhiannonDauster

In this episode, Sam Harris talks about the low number of women in physics in engineering: "there's got to be some differential interest here, and perhaps in certain cases aptitude

Ajeet Bharti

ajeetbharti

"I beg to introduce myself to you as a clerk in the Accounts Department of the Port Trust Office at Madras... "The opening of the letter that changed 20th century

iJyotish

ijyotish

Do most of astrologers apply #ShadBalas just as broad mathematical values for macro valuation (which broadly makes little sense), OR apply each of the component for dasha/natural karkatva/transit etc effects?

Suvy Bo

suvyboy

Most docs I was talking to in Jan were telling me to worry about the flu and told me to "trust medical experts" (I'd have laughed if it didn't make

The Spool

thespool

Over the weekend, our EiC sparked a conversation about reviewing movies and using or not using stars/letter grades/whatever to do so. We thought you all might appreciate some insight in

Santtu J. Räisänen

SanttuRaisanen

Yesterday, I watched CS professor Michael Kearns speak on AI ethics, and now I feel compelled to rant.Namely, how a lot of AI ethics represents a complete failure in moral

Atharva Kharbade

athrvakhrbde

What if we could contact alien species? Even if we could, how would we communicate with them? It's our job to try and we did it too. We've sent a

Prof Francois Balloux

BallouxFrancois

There seems to be a common fundamental misunderstanding of the concept of herd immunity, which leads to unhelpful cross talk. Herd immunity is not more (or less) a harmful concept

John Carlos Baez

johncarlosbaez

Not just people, but also mathematical objects, can be oppressed! Pushed into the background, silenced, not taught in courses at the appropriate moment. As a result, the development of

TheAstuteReader

TheAstuteReader

ॐ पूर्णमदः पूर्णमिदं पूर्णात्पूर्णमुदच्यते । पूर्णस्य पूर्णमादाय पूर्णमेवावशिष्यते ॥If we remove infinity from infinity, what is still prevailing is infinity.The Man who knew Infinity - Remembering Ramanujan on his 100th