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We chose to brew an IPA in tribute to Ada Lovelace, an English mathematician and writer, who is widely celebrated as the first computer programmer.

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2020-06-09

>The of algebra are derived from Muhammad al-Khwarizmi, a Persian mathematician.
>The "Father of Algebra," he was famous for his book, Kitab al-Jabr. Al-Jabr sounds a lot like algebra, right?
>Well, like how algorithm is derived from al-Khwarizmi, so is algebra for Al-Jabr!

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2020-05-21

Tomorrow is Omar Khayyam´s Day: 18th May 1048 was the birthday of this excellent and amazing historical Khorasani Persian figure who was a mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and poet.

Thread on his life and achievements

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2020-05-17

Happy Khayyam Day!

was a mathematician, astronomer, and writer noted in his own time for his scientific achievements.

English-speaking readers knew him through the translation of a collection of his ,by English author

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2020-05-17

“From the intrinsic evidence of his creation, the Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician.”
-- James Hopwood Jeans, The Mysterious Universe, 1930

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2020-05-15

Hello! I am Seppo. I am a mathematician by trade but love doing art as a hobby. Been really coming back to hone my craft more recently.

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2020-05-15

The sigil that burns over their heads is that of Geryon, a Mathematical symbol used only him. Its purpose is unknown, as no Mathematician has been able to replicate it to ascertain its effects. Assumptions are it's a mark of protection or a catalyst for time / space manipulation.

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2020-05-13

Did you know that the author of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking glass was a mathematician? The books are full of mathematical metaphors. Which is probably why it all sounds like gibberish to me, especially Through the looking glass 😅

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2020-05-09

M.C. Escher is an artists whose work explored different levels of reality. Much of his work explored conflicting, points of view and impossible structures, hence his popularity amongst scientists and mathematicians.

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2020-05-04

Richard Belt sued Charles Bennet Lawes for writing in the Times 22 June that Belt had falsely claimed to have created some sculptures. Belt won eventually. One of the contested statues was of Hypatia the Alexandrian philosopher-mathematician.

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2020-05-03

📢 ANNOUNCEMENT 📢

I'm forming the «DL anime team», recruiting mathematicians and animators to illustrate DL topics à la Grant ().
Objective: https://t.co/zoBG9QhTlh in a video format.

Okay, I went full crazy (à la Elon), haha! 🤯

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2020-05-02

Happy More than 2000 years ago, the Greek mathematician Eratosthenes found a way to measure the radius of Earth just using shadows, angles, and simple geometry: https://t.co/WhhzNXC4Cr

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2020-04-22

Hello! I am Seppo! I am a mathematician by trade but do art in my freetime. I often make fan art, but since the quarantine I've been focusing on doing studies to improve my craft.

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2020-04-21

For Cambridge edition: the is full of unusual and interesting things.

Below: models of horses' teeth, 1890; calculators (they have a whole cabinet full of them; mathematician's knitting project modelling interweaving of atoms, 1885.

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2020-04-16

in 1935, German mathematician Emmy Noether died. She made many important contributions to abstract algebra & theoretical physics, most importantly Noether's theorem on the connection of symmetry in nature and laws of conservation.

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2020-04-14

Today's first fun fact! Algebra, one of the many branches of mathematics, draws its name from an Arabic word meaning "bonesetting," coined by the Persian mathematician al-Khwarizmi! Also, an earlier Latinization of his name is where the word "algorithm" is drawn from!

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2020-04-01

Hypatia of Alexandria (c. 370 CE - March 415 CE) was a female philosopher and mathematician, born in Alexandria, Egypt possibly in 370 CE (although some scholars cite her birth as c. 350 CE). https://t.co/oeChmeuNJb

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2020-03-29

Alexander Grothendieck (28 March 1928 – 13 November 2014) was a German-born French mathematician- ήταν Γάλλος μαθηματικός, γεννημένος στη Γερμανία. Υπήρξε ηγετική φυσιογνωμία στη θεμελίωση της σύγχρονης αλγεβρικής γεωμετρίας.

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2020-03-28

THERE ISN'T ANY TREASURE, YOU MANIAC! I'M A MATHEMATICIAN, NOT SOME RICH HOARDER!

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2020-03-28

Maryam Mirzakhani was a mathematician who was the first woman ever to win the Fields Medal, the world’s highest award for achievement in mathematics. // Learn more: https://t.co/j9mlKzckIB

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2020-03-21