Detail from Raphael's The School of Athens (1509–1511) featuring a Greek mathematician – perhaps representing Euclid or Archimedes – using a compass to draw a geometric construction.

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Happy Birthday Emmy Noether 🔢

Emmy Noether was a German mathematician whose work helped contribute to abstract algebra and theoretical physics

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Karen Uhlenbeck won the !!! It and the Fields Medal are among the highest honor a mathematician can receive, and until now no woman has been given the Abel. One more barrier down! https://t.co/9EtarCs5Vd

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Our new FREE display, Dimensions: The Mathematics of Symmetry and Space, is now open! Explore what it means to move in one, two, three and more dimensions through Islamic tiles, prehistoric carvings, renaissance prints, virtual reality technology & more. Until 9 Jun in Gallery 8

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Happy trainers! To derive this important mathematical constant, simply measure the circumference of a Voltorb and divide it by the diameter of that Voltorb.

This wonderful example should help you out!

[credit: Cresselia92 - https://t.co/xYNogcqw7X]

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Day 3.14 - Math is awesome!!! In recognition of Pi Day! A little Newtonian offering to mathematics! Can’t build robots without it. Here’s to Archimedes 3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169...
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March 14th [3.14] is PI DAY--a thrill to the mathematically-minded, perhaps a quiet disappointment to the carbohydate-minded.

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A WIP of my swamp necromancer, Anathema and "swamp gator girlfriend" becoming friends

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Astronomy: two rival mathematicians, Urinaal and Raasbollius, argue about models of the solar system; engraving by P. Tanjé, 1758, after C. Troost, 1741; from an episode in the play "The mathematicians" by P. Langendijk, 1715; Amsterdam https://t.co/LwbgFS0ttT

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Posau a gweithgareddau mathemateg ar gyfer plant 6-11 oed

"Ffordd wych o gael y plant i feddwl yn greadigol ac yn fathemategol!"

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March 5, 1512, birthday of mathematician & cartographer Gerardus Mercator 🌐 https://t.co/1BDTdfEwwj

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A computer-generated image of the Horgan Surface in mathematics. Source: https://t.co/63c2WhqfTg

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Comic from this week's featuring Theano of Croton, one of seventeen documented women to play a role in the ancient Greek Pythagorean school of philosophy and mathematics! https://t.co/dU6tbq6ija

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Day 1 We open with Hypatia of Alexandria, philosopher, astronomer, mathematician, teacher - murdered by a Christian mob due to a political feud.

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