A New Pyramid-Like Shape Always Lands the Same Side Up - by Elise Cutts #Maths #Mathematics
A #tetrahedron is the simplest #Platonic #solid. #Mathematicians have now made one that’s stable only on one side, confirming a decades-old #conjecture. #Conway
https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-pyramid-like-shape-always-lands-the-same-side-up-20250625/
Mathematicians Hunting Prime Numbers Discover Infinite New Pattern
#HackerNews #Mathematicians #PrimeNumbers #InfinitePattern #MathDiscovery #ScientificResearch
@doboprobodyne one tiny problem with the "type equations at the speed of thought" -- most #mathematicians can *already* type equations and such at the speed of thought, because TeX notation is so deeply ingrained in their brains/fingers. For example, if I'm thinking of
\[ \int_0^{2\pi} \sin^2(x)\, dx \]
then I just automatically type
\int_0^{2\pi} \sin^2(x)\,mathrm{d}x
without really thinking about it, and I don't have to take my hands off my keyboard.
That said, it looks like a fun little device, especially if it's QMK compatible.
Saw this nascent #macropad for #mathematicians and thought of #mathstodon
Their slogan is "Type equations at the speed of thought with this specialized keypad".
https://www.crowdsupply.com/summa-cogni/mathpad
I'm not a mathematician, so if I've missed any hashtags out please feel free to add them by reply!
#math #maths #mathematics #computing #latex #knuth #keyboard #keyboards #typing #macropads
As a mathematically not-so-sophisticated #EE/#CS bloke, I sometimes wonder whether those bona fide #mathematicians and #physicists (or those EE/CS folks who had attained such heights of mathematical sophistication) view me as a "maths carpenter".
Oh hey, hang on there. There's nothing wrong with being a carpenter or a mason or a farmer; these callings predate mathematics and physics by several millennia. They kick-started the human civilisation, and they continue to grow it.
Still, I wonder....
Puzzle-Solving Millionaires Unite - Founders Podcast
Of course this was known to many famous #mathematicians, like #Euler and #Jacobi and they solved the equations in terms of #EllipticIntegrals. I find it satisfying to be able to visualize the #dynamics of the this system, using #FreeSoftware, such as #WxMaxima.
@sellathechemist #ClassicKit index page now open in a browser tab that will probably remain there until I can't restore it any more. Haven't #mathematicians got there own site/page for their obscure survivors where Klein could be celebrated without the help of creatives modelling their stuff for them in Real Matter?
Why Do Some #Planets Have #Rings While Others Don’t?
#Mathematicians uncover the #Logic behind how #People walk in #Crowds : MIT
An #mRNA #Cancer #Vaccine may offer long-term #Protection : Misc
Check our latest #KnowledgeLinks
So good to see liberal America standing up to the Trumpian threat today. A strange thing happened to me as I followed the topical posts.
Each time I saw the #HandsOff hashtag, what my brain read instead was #Hausdorff, for Felix Hausdorff, the eminent mathematician.
To my shame, I knew nothing about Felix Hausdorff the man. To me as a former Berliner and an emigree to England, Hausdorff sounded like an East Prussian landed-gentry name, I expected a Junker. Wrong. Today I learnt that Felix Hausdorff was in fact Jewish. He, his wife and his sister in law escaped the death camps by suicide, in 1942. (His daughter Lenore survived.) I never knew.
So there really is a hidden connection between today's encouraging #HandsOff news and Felix Hausdorff, the great thinker who was exposed to the same evil of unchecked state power that threatens us today, and against which today's protests took a stance.
Holy cow @mina@berlin.social 🔗 berlin.social/users/mina/s... - #Mathematicians never run out of #chocolate
Mathematicians Solve Vexing Crowd Problem That Explains Why Public Spaces Devolve Into Chaos
Orbon Alija via Getty Images Navigating a is often an awkward experience, but sometimes, it feels much easier than others. In a crowded hallway, people seem to spontaneously organize themselves into lanes, while in an open city square, people travel in every direction, darting from one side to the other. But what determines the way people move in busy spaces?.........Continue reading.... By: Victoria Atkinson Source: Live Science . Critics: Social aspects are concerned with the […]#OnThisDay: Birth Anniversary of #American #Poet Robert Frost (1874).
Birth Anniversary of Paul Erdős (1913) - one of the most prolific #Mathematicians and producers of mathematical #Conjectures of the 20th century.
Happy birthday to one of greatest #mathematicians of all time Emmy Noether (1882-1935), here with her eponymous theorem, the backbone of modern physics. Noether’s theorem links any symmetry of a system with a conservation law. In my portrait, I chose to depict a young Emmy in front of a blackboard with a more simple formulation of her theorem and three specific applications of it, shown schematically, 🧵1/
#linocut #printmaking #sciart #physics #histsci #WomenInSTEM #womensHistoryMonth #MastoArt
Happy #Nowruz to all who celebrate. Makes much more sense to me to celebrate the #NewYear at the beginning of spring on an astronomically significant day rather than on some odd, astronomically insignificant day in mid-winter. I mean, what’s up with that anyway? So to celebrate Nowruz, which BTW is observed by an enormous population including in Iran, Central and South Asia, I’m posting a short video memorial to one of the greatest #mathematicians ever, who happened to be an #Iranian woman, Maryam Mirzakhani. The first woman to win the Field’s Prize, math’s equivalent to the Nobel, Mirzakhani broke barriers and forever changed her chosen field. A Harvard graduate and former professor at both Princeton and Stanford, she deserves more attention than she gets. Regrettably, she died far too young at 40. May the new year bring us more genius minds like hers. #math #mathematics #STEM #WomenInSTEM #science
#Mathematicians finally find the #infinite card #game. (Stand Up Maths)
Look out for the #Mastodon mention towards the end.
“Currently years into the development of the #TopologicalQubit, the journey began with a single question, “Could a topological qubit be achieved”?
Working with theory as a starting point, #Microsoft brought together #mathematicians, #ComputerScientists, #physicists, and #engineers to explore possible approaches.
These experts collaborated, discussed methods, and completed countless equations to take the first steps on the path toward realizing a topological #qubit.”
<https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/quantum/2018/09/06/developing-a-topological-qubit/>
I am extraordinarily fortunate to work with #Moodle in my job for @catalysteu I am additionally fortunate to have been working on the #STACK #maths #question type for much of the last year. #math is too important to be left just to #mathematicians
I have collaborated on a blog post that covers STACK and our STACK hosting service which you can read here.
Moodle and the STACK software are available under the #GPL license.
Just as #software systems mirror the #communication structures of their creators, #computers embody the #binary, #reductionist mindset of #mathematicians.
