#Mathematical

The Goal of the Sage (Ghayat al-Hakim)

MaslamaQ

Oxford, Marsh 155 was Helmut Ritter’s favourite manuscript for his Arabic edition of the Ghāya, which is understandable (although it is not mine). It is complete, clear, and dated: 22

Ben Bartlett

bencbartlett

Alan Turing was born 108 years ago today. He was a computer scientist, a mathematician, a philosopher, and a victim of homophobia.His work saved between 2-14 million lives in WWII.Bigotry

Jordan Weissmann 🗽

JHWeissmann

So, I finally got a chance to look at @MattBruenig's piece on the racial wealth gap. It's a useful, but not so much the "real" story, as he'd argue, as

Anna Hughes

AnnaGHughes

Astronomers once had reason to believe there was another planet - they called it Vulcan - orbiting between Mercury and the Sun. 1/ In 1846, French astronomer Urbain Le Verrier

Ed Conway

EdConwaySky

You’ll probably see this chart a lot today. It’s the one @uksciencechief just showed at the @10DowningStreet briefing today. It’s v v scary & implies if the current growth rate

10-K Diver

10kdiver

1) Get a cup of coffee. In this thread, I'm going to walk you through "The Kelly Criterion". 2) In 1956, John Kelly published a paper titled "A New Interpretation

Dylan Morris

dylanhmorris

New preprint on how temperature and humidity affect the infectiousness of SARS-CoV-2 and other viruses. Key finding: the virus remains infectious longer at low temperatures and extreme relative humidities.https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.10.16.

Joy-Ann 😷Reid

JoyAnnReid

Winning elections is about only one thing: numbers. In order of importance:1. Do you have enough voters registered? (Assume you don't and constantly be registering voters!)2. Will enough of your

Peter Ellis

almostconverge

Mini Hungarian language lesson: parallels.Today I'm going to talk about a mathematician whose name is virtually unknown outside Hungary, even though his results formed the basis of modern physics, Einstein's

Aubrey Clayton

aubreyclayton

OK, friends, this is a big one. How Eugenics Shaped Statistics, my cover story for this month’s issue of Nautilus, is now online. F*cking love science and f*cking hate Nazis?

Cassie Kozyrkov

quaesita

0/ Essential philosophy for #DataScience, a thread of 32 questions. Grab a friend (virtually) and tackle these 32 essential questions (all with more than one reasonable answer) that every serious

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

Dr. Angela Rasmussen

angie_rasmussen

Yesterday I tweeted criticism of Trump, and I dropped a F bomb. Some have complained in the replies about how this vulgar display of uncontrolled emotion, as well as me

Brendan W. Sullivan

professorbrenda

Hello #mathtwitter folks! I have some cool stuff to share involving combinatorics, crossword puzzles, and math in general.Read on for more info, but you can start with this mini crossword

Courtney Milan 🦖

courtneymilan

A good faith discussion would start with a discussion of models versus model parameters, so let’s do that!https://twitter.com/JohnCornyn/status/1248581686352318464 A model is generally a mathematical and/or computational method that is used

Karen Lloyd

archaearama

Many deep subsurface microbes like Bathyarchaeota, MBG-D, and Lokiarchaeota are dominant yet dormant in global marine sediments. The point of dormancy is that you get to grow someday. But we