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Michele
Jessica98658730
Meso American Mathematics The Mayan civilization used 0 as a point of origin as opposed to 1 like Roman numericals concepts. Islamic math developed and expanded mathematics known. Contemporaneous with
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Srinivasa Raghava ζ(1/2 + i σₙ )=0
SrinivasR1729
A great Indian Mathematician:S S Pillai another Ramanujan, but just not well known.Srinivasa Ramanujan’s story is now part of the folklore of mathematics. But there was another number theorist who
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Great Women of Mathematics
GWOMaths
GREAT WOMAN OF MATHEMATICS: DR. EVELYN BOYD GRANVILLE, born 1924. Dr. Granville was the second black woman to earn a PhD in mathematics. Born in 1924, she grew up during
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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
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Jayna
Tuplet
Posted this a little too early in the morning.I was thinking about how in science if something can't be observed then we say it doesn't exist, but in math even
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Aaron Hanlon
AaronRHanlon
Evaluate the claim (Rorty): "Mathematics helps physics do its job; literature and the arts help ethics do its." (_Consequences of Pragmatism_, xliii).
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Christopher Such
Suchmo83
Mastery learning in mathematics relies on teachers addressing children's gaps in prerequisite knowledge before an idea is taught. It seems to be accepted, understandably, that when the gaps get too
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Parveen Kaswan, IFS
ParveenKaswan
Tribute to the man who knew #infinity on his 101st death anniversary. Srinivasa Ramanujan, pioneer in mathematics, made extraordinary contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series & continued fractions.
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Michael Kinyon
ProfKinyon
Why I Was Destined To Become An AlgebraistAbstract: In this thread, I discuss how the New Math movement influenced my career. I meander quite a bit, so skip to tweet
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Brandon Edwards
bedwards144
Hot off the open-access presses: a brand new article coauthored by @DrDanielGillis and myself!"The utility of joinpoint regression for estimating population parameters given changes in population structure"https://www.cell.com/heliyon/fullt
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Matt Haig
matthaig1
So countries who locked down quicker are having shorter lockdowns because of smaller numbers to suppress. Remember when we were told we shouldn’t lockdown too early because ‘behavioural scientists’ said
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Jacques Carette
jjcarett2
I'm having fun 'peeking in' to what the Lean community is doing (via mostly lurking on their Zulip, but I've perused the source code too). They are genuinely trying to
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V Vinay
ainvvy
0. Today is Ramanujan's Birthday. (b 1887). 1. I am not going to recall some anecdotes etc which are all well known to most. Instead, I will stick to his
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True Indology
TIinExile
Today, the World celebrates #Fibonacci day."Fibonacci sequence is nature's code. It is in everything from flowers to storm systems to the shape of galaxies"- they said, crediting Mr. Fibonacci for
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OliveGreens( ssr91170) Reloaded !
OliveGreens09
A very important confession on Small_Pox by a British physician JZ Holwell (FRS) about how Brahmins went from village to village to inoculate against Small_Pox & hardly One in Million
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Jonah Miller
thephysicsmill
This is a really great thread! I wanted to chime in with some tidbits of the history of math which is really fascinating. So let's do some #scicomm 1/Nhttps://twitter.com/kareem_carr/status/1298753801550266371 One
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