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Some #musicians have #PerfectPitch. Some even have #Synaesthesia. Lucky blighters.

I wonder what would happen if some #mathematicians have a similar neurological and perceptual super powers. But then, mathematicians do possess highly developed visualisation abilities and intuitions, which might well be called super powers.

Sir Michael Atiyah, "the pope of mathematics" in the UK. I had him in the back of the taxi as well. #mathematicians

a person wearing a fair isle sweater seated in front of a blackboard wtih mathematical symbols

Alexander Grothendieck "In fact, most of these comrades who I gauged to be more brilliant than I have gone on to become distinguished mathematicians. Still, from the perspective of thirty or thirty-five years, I can state that their imprint upon the mathematics of our time has not been very profound. They've all done things, often beautiful things, in a context that was already set out before them, which they had no inclination to disturb. Without being aware of it, they've remained prisoners of those invisible and despotic circles which delimit the universe of a certain milieu in a given era. To have broken these bounds they would have had to rediscover in themselves that capability which was their birthright, as it was mine: the capacity to be alone." #mathematicians

one standing male and one seated writing in a book

John Von Neumann "Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin." #scientists #mathematicians https://lasttheory.com/article/john-von-neumann-and-the-art-of-being-there

Mathematics is hard for mathematicians to understand too

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aec9014

#HackerNews #Mathematics #Understanding #MathematicsChallenges #Mathematicians #ScienceNews

Understanding mathematics:
#mathematicians #mathematics #understanding #research #communication
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https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aec9014

Hey Sunday #mathematicians. I could use some help with something.

You have some number of people, say 20. They each sort some number of possible discussion topics, say 40, into four categories: Love to discuss (score of 4) like to discuss (3), sure, why not (2), and no thanks (0). You want to set up discussion groups of four. How do you assign unique people to the topics they most want to discuss?

#mathematician #math #maths #combinatorics #nerds #eggheads #community

Thanks!

“Descriptive set theorists are an exception. This small community of #mathematicians never stopped studying the fundamental nature of sets — particularly the strange #infinite ones that other mathematicians ignore.”

I want to be friends with these people or stumble upon them in bars and hotel lobby’s…

#math #Bernshteyn

https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-bridge-links-the-strange-math-of-infinity-to-computer-science-20251121/

Mary Somerville is on the front of the RBS £10 note since 2017. She was the first person to be called a 'scientist' and referred to as the Queen of Science in her obituary.

"Anyone who has observed the reflection of the waves from a wall on the side of a river after the passage of a steam-boat, will have a perfect idea of the reflection of sound and light." #greatscots #mathematicians #scientists #womeninscience

RBS £10 note bearing the image of Mary Somerville and a quote

Hidden moon diagram on the front of the RBS £10 note

Me: Many #mathematicians and #math-focused people are also involved with #classicalMusic.

14: Standard #Canadian grandfather experience.

Math Makers by Alfred S. Posamentier, 2020

The Lives and Works of 50 Famous Mathematicians

An entertaining history of mathematics as chronicled through fifty short biographies. Mathematics today is the fruit of centuries of brilliant insights by men and women whose personalities and life experiences were often as extraordinary as their mathematical achievements.

#books
#nonfiction
#biography
#mathematicians
#mathematics

$This entertaining history of mathematics chronicles those achievements through fifty short biographies that bring these great thinkers to life while making their contributions understandable to readers with little math background. Among the fascinating characters profiled are Isaac Newton (1642-1727), the founder of classical physics and infinitesimal calculus--he frequently quarreled with fellow scientists and was obsessed by alchemy and arcane Bible interpretation; Sophie Germain (1776 - 1831), who studied secretly at the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, using the name of a previously enrolled male student--she is remembered for her work on Fermat's Last Theorem and on elasticity theory; Emmy Noether (1882 - 1935), whom Albert Einstein described as the most important woman in the history of mathematics--she made important contributions to abstract algebra and in physics she clarified the connection between conservation laws and symmetry; and Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887-1920), who came from humble origins in India and had almost no formal training, yet made substantial contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series, and continued fractions.The unusual behavior and life circumstances of these and many other intriguing personalities make for fascinating reading and a highly enjoyable introduction to mathematics.$

How Math Helps Us Map The World

Paulina Rowińska, mathematician, speaks with host Ira Flatow about the relationship between math and mapping.
#cartography #mathematics #mathematicians #maps #mapping #geography #math #gis #navigation #maths
https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/mapmatics-math-maps/

Some #Mathematicians Don’t Believe in #Infinity
One question has preoccupied humans for 1000s of years: Do infinities exist? 2,300 years ago #Aristotle distinguished between two types of infinity: potential & actual. Former deals with abstract scenarios that would result from repeated processes. If you imagine counting forever, adding 1, over and over, this situation, in Aristotle’s view, would involve potential infinity. But actual infinities, he argued, couldn't exist.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-if-infinity-didnt-exist/

The French mathematicians of Kangaroo Island. A strange tale.

Kangaroo Island, off the coast of South Australia, was inhabited by the Indigenous Kartan people until possibly several thousand years after sea levels rose and cut it off from the mainland about 10,000 years ago. The island is sacred to the mainland Kaurna and Narungga peoples. In 1803 it was surveyed by French cartographer Nicholas Baudin, who named two prominent features of the island Cape Borda and Cape Cassini for two French mathematicians. These names have stuck to this day.

Jean Charles de Borda (1733-1799) was a mathematician who served in the army. He worked on projectiles, fluid mechanics, hydrography, cartography, invented a surveying instrument, and proposed the ranked positional voting system. https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Borda/

Giovanni Domenico Cassini (1625-1712) was a mathematician and astronomer who became a French citizen in 1673. He made tables of Jupiter's moons, made a study of the curve which is the locus of a point the product of whose distances from two fixed foci is constant, and disagreed with almost everyone about nearly everything. https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Cassini/

All respect to Cassini and Borda, but it's totally weird that dead white men's names were given to places they never went anywhere near and had never even heard of and had no connection with whatsoever, but that's the colonial mentality for you. Also, it's a wonder the British didn't strip all the French names off in favour of glorifying the names of their own heroes or (more likely) financial sponsors.
#mathematics #mathematicians #colonialism

Musical biography of John von Neumann #filk #filkmusic #vonneumann #paperclips #universalpaperclips #mathematicians

Tune: Chuck Berry, "Johnny B. Goode" (https://youtu.be/Y-9Y4CCIWnM)

(guitar solo)

Deep down in Central Europe where the Danube flows,
In the basin where the Magyar kingdoms rose,
Of all the math and science nerds, he was the best,
At the Lutheran gymnasium of Budapest.
He was Neumann János Lajos in his land of birth,
And Johnny von Neumann on the rest of Earth.

Go go, go Johnny go, go,
Go Johnny go go go,
Johnny v. N.

The theory of sets he handled with aplomb,
Then quantum mechanics and the atom bomb,
And in Philly, Pennsylvania, he came to hack
On an early computer called the ENIAC.
Then self-replicating interstellar ships,
To turn the universe into paper clips.

Go go, go Johnny go, go,
Go Johnny go go go,
Johnny v. N.

Bourbaki – A Secret Society of Mathematicians

https://books.google.com/books/about/Bourbaki.html

#HackerNews #Bourbaki #Secret #Society #Mathematicians #Mathematics #History

5 #Coincidences that make our #Existence possible : Medium

A #Study Says Your #Brain Can #Travel Through #Time. Here’s What It Does to Your #Memory. : Pop Mech

Some #Mathematicians Don’t Believe in #Infinity : Sci Am

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Ah yes, yet another "groundbreaking" fractal grapher that requires the immense power of JavaScript to "run" 🏃‍♂️💨. As if we needed a new excuse for browsers to crash while pretending to be #mathematicians 🤡🔢.
https://www.juliascope.com/ #fractalgraphing #JavaScriptperformance #browsercrash #techhumor #HackerNews #ngated

Besides US bigtech, Huawei is hiring countless top #mathematicians in Europe. Why are the global European players too blind to see that true innovation will be driven from the foundational level, not just from applied engineering? So much talent here, but so little ambition in corporate strategy.

Applications are now open for our International Visitor Program, open to #mathematicians to visit Australia 🐨 between July '26-'June 27, or March '26-June -27 (Aus/NZ citizens)
📅 Apply by Aug 1, info:
https://mathematical-research-institute.sydney.edu.au/international-visitor-program/
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