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John Dickson
johnpauldickson
Thesis: the average 18 year old student in, say, York in AD 800 (the middle of the so-called "Dark Ages") had read more, knew more languages, was better trained in
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Laurie Rubel
Laurie_Rubel
(thread) So @YehCathery and I wrote recently about what it could mean to #queer mathematics (Oh the men trolling me are going to love this), in a chapter in a
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Laura Riccio
lpriccio
If your defense of the thesis "trans people deserve human rights" literally cites "well, actually, sometimes, 2 plus 2 really *is* 5" as support, you are not helping. You are
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Holly, employed maths elf!
hollymathnerd
ON WHO NEEDS TO LEARN MATHEMATICS: A THREAD. The pic features a quote from RG, one of the most prominent proponents of changing mathematical education. Though she has no degrees
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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
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Siddhartha Mukherjee
DrSidMukherjee
1/n Please stop harassing me about maths. First, I am attacked by the Christian Right for being Muslim (I am not). Then, I am attacked by the Hindu right for
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Dennis Muldrow
MuldrowDennis
Food For Thought: Mathematical reasons versus physical reasons.There is no simple Mathematical reason that can explain the reality we're experiencing. Every equation seems to need another equation to align it
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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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UnCle SARM
Uncle_Sarm
It has been a tough time for Nigerians, especially to the less privileged ones. So I took it upon myself to see that people do not remain stagnantSo I decided
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Don Juan Fitzcarraldo de la Schmatte
juanfitz4
I’m not a student of mathematics, but I’m sure many major developments in mathematics were accomplished via intuition (as opposed to rigorous deductive reasoning), and intuition almost always implies an
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Parveen Kaswan, IFS
ParveenKaswan
Tribute to the man who knew #infinity on his 100th death anniversary. Srinivasa Ramanujan, pioneer in mathematics, made extraordinary contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series & continued fractions.
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Great Women of Mathematics
GWOMaths
RT this to be entered to win a copy of the Mathematics 2020 calendar (from which the #dailymaths problems are taken), or a copy of "Power in Numbers: the Rebel
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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
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Canadian Mathematical Society
canmathsociety
1/ Thread: Canadian Mathematical Society has a list of #K-12 educational resources on the website that will be updated regularly as we get suggestions from enterprises, students and educators. #homeschooling
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Great Women of Mathematics
GWOMaths
TIME FOR A GIVEAWAY!! 8 has been my favorite number all my life, so 3 prizes will be given away when we reach 8,000 followers! One set of the Women
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Zero (they/their)
ZeroWrites
This is flawed on many levels and I'd love to unpack it, but I just deflated all my energy getting super irate at people wanting me to be nice to
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