Every mathematician has only a few tricks (2020)
https://mathoverflow.net/questions/363119/every-mathematician-has-only-a-few-tricks
#HackerNews #mathematics #tricks #mathematician #mathoverflow #problem-solving #2020
Sabrina Web :privacypride: 📎
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Today is Fibonacci Day. November 23 if written in MM/DD format recalls the #mathematician Leonardo Bonaccio of Pisa (c. 1170 - c. 1240 or 50) aka Fibonacci’s sequence (1,1,2,3…) where each number is the sum of the previous two. He used it to describe rabbit populations, but the sequence is commonly observed in nature, including in the spiral of a nautilus shell.🧵
#linocut #printmaking #mathematics #mathart #sciart #nautilus #GoldenRatio #GoldenSpiral #Fibonacci #fibonacciday2025 #FibonacciDay
Today is Fibonacci Day. November 23 if written in MM/DD format recalls the #mathematician Leonardo Bonaccio of Pisa (c. 1170 - c. 1240 or 50) aka Fibonacci’s sequence (1,1,2,3…) where each number is the sum of the previous two. He used it to describe rabbit populations, but the sequence is commonly observed in nature, including in the spiral of a nautilus shell.🧵
#linocut #printmaking #mathematics #mathart #sciart #nautilus #GoldenRatio #GoldenSpiral #Fibonacci #fibonacciday2025 #FibonacciDay
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Happy birthday to #mathematician & geodesist Gladys West (née Brown 1930)! Shown with 3 satellites important to her career + tracks: Seasat, GEOS-3 & a GPS satellite. Her work, using math to precisely model the shape of Earth, laid the groundwork for GPS! Born to sharecropper parents in Virginia, she graduated with a Math BSc in ‘52 then MSc at VSU in ‘55. She started her career at 🧵
#spacetober_challenge Earth
#linocut #printmaking #womenInSTEM #BlackInSTEM #histsci #EarthSci #Math #mastoArt
Happy birthday to #mathematician & geodesist Gladys West (née Brown 1930)! Shown with 3 satellites important to her career + tracks: Seasat, GEOS-3 & a GPS satellite. Her work, using math to precisely model the shape of Earth, laid the groundwork for GPS! Born to sharecropper parents in Virginia, she graduated with a Math BSc in ‘52 then MSc at VSU in ‘55. She started her career at 🧵
#spacetober_challenge Earth
#linocut #printmaking #womenInSTEM #BlackInSTEM #histsci #EarthSci #Math #mastoArt
Wouter Tebbens ⁂
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Happy birthday to #mathematician, aeronautical #engineer, philanthropist and Cherokee ‘hidden figure’ of the space race: Mary Golda Ross (1908-2008).
Great-great-granddaughter of Chief John Ross, who was forced to lead his people on the Trail of Tears, Ross attributed her success in math to the Cherokee tradition of encouraging equal education for boys and girls.
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#printmaking #sciart#womenInSTEM#Indigineer#SpaceRace#planetaryScience #linocut
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Happy birthday to trailblazing American computer scientist Frances Elizabeth Allen (1932 – 2020) who made foundational contributions to optimizing compilers, optimizing programs and parallel computing. She was the first woman to become an IBM Fellow, where she worked from 1957 to 2002 and as an emeritus fellow afterwards. She was the first woman to win the Turing Prize.
IBM Research was recruiting teachers 🧵1/n
#printmaking#womenInSTEM#histSci #mathematician #sciart #compsci#mastoArt
Happy birthday to trailblazing American computer scientist Frances Elizabeth Allen (1932 – 2020) who made foundational contributions to optimizing compilers, optimizing programs and parallel computing. She was the first woman to become an IBM Fellow, where she worked from 1957 to 2002 and as an emeritus fellow afterwards. She was the first woman to win the Turing Prize.
IBM Research was recruiting teachers 🧵1/n
#printmaking#womenInSTEM#histSci #mathematician #sciart #compsci#mastoArt
Another unknown birthday: Amongst the earliest recorded woman in #mathematics, Hypatia lived during the 4th century AD in Alexandria, Egypt, which was part of the Roman Empire. She was born at some time between about 350 and 370 and died in 415 C.E. She taught philosophy, #astronomy and mathematics at a NeoPlatonist school. She believed in empiricism and natural law. 🧵1/n
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She was the daughter of a famous #mathematician, Theon Alexandricus (ca. 335–405), with whom she worked & published edited versions of Classical texts in mathematics. She also pursued her education in Athens & Italy before returning to Alexandria.⠀
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It is difficult to precisely specify her own contributions to math, since many documents have been lost (the Library of Alexandria 🧵2/n