Is there a #mathematical framework for abrupt change? Christopher Zeeman was one of the key figures behind #CatastropheTheory, a topological approach to discontinuous behavior that later informed much of today’s work on #TippingPoints. Just came across his elegant 1976 paper, outlining his core ideas:
Djoerd Hiemstra 🍉
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#artAdventCalendar: Happy birthday to #mathematician Virginia Ragsdale (1870-1945). The Ragsdale conjecture, made in her 1906 dissertation, is amongst the earliest and most famous on the #topology of real & algebraic curves, which stimulated a lot of 20th century research & was not disproved until ‘79. A correct upper bound has yet to be found. In her dissertation she tackles the 16th of David Hilbert’s 🧵
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#artAdventCalendar: Happy birthday to #mathematician Virginia Ragsdale (1870-1945). The Ragsdale conjecture, made in her 1906 dissertation, is amongst the earliest and most famous on the #topology of real & algebraic curves, which stimulated a lot of 20th century research & was not disproved until ‘79. A correct upper bound has yet to be found. In her dissertation she tackles the 16th of David Hilbert’s 🧵
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#womeninSTEM #printmaking #sciart #mathart #histsci #mastoArt
Fabrizio Musacchio
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Please share: Congratulations to Clara Wanjura for receiving the German Physical Society's Gustav Hertz Prize 2026 !
She is awarded the prize for her pioneering contributions to two modern topics: #neuromorphic systems, that promise to reduce the energy consumption of artificial intelligence #AI , and non-Hermitian #topology , which describes a set of sometimes counterintuitive wave phenomena.
Clara is research group leader at our @MPI_ScienceOfLight in #Erlangen .
@MPI_ScienceOfLight @maxplanckgesellschaft
press release of the #DPG :
https://www.dpg-physik.de/veroeffentlichungen/aktuell/2025/dpg-preise-2026
group homepage:
https://mpl.mpg.de/research-at-mpl/independent-research-groups/topology-and-neuromorphic-computing
Please share: Congratulations to Clara Wanjura for receiving the German Physical Society's Gustav Hertz Prize 2026 !
She is awarded the prize for her pioneering contributions to two modern topics: #neuromorphic systems, that promise to reduce the energy consumption of artificial intelligence #AI , and non-Hermitian #topology , which describes a set of sometimes counterintuitive wave phenomena.
Clara is research group leader at our @MPI_ScienceOfLight in #Erlangen .
@MPI_ScienceOfLight @maxplanckgesellschaft
press release of the #DPG :
https://www.dpg-physik.de/veroeffentlichungen/aktuell/2025/dpg-preise-2026
group homepage:
https://mpl.mpg.de/research-at-mpl/independent-research-groups/topology-and-neuromorphic-computing