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Tom Baird

BairdTom

I can understand why a “wait and see” approach sounds reasonable for moving from alert level 4 to level 3. However I think it is based on false reasoning. Let

🇰🇪 Nyarari Ya Mumbi 🇰🇪 #KenyaFirst

BettieWaShiro

WHY PS.IRUNGU Has saved Kenya from itself. THREAD. @PeopleDailyKe @ntvkenya@gathara Here is why this story was not given Justice in all that covered it tonight. Nairobi's Population has grown thrice

Axel Wagner

TheMerovius

I wonder how much of the "CS degrees are BS" argument dominating my TL right now can be motivated by the US' complete inability to do higher education. The argument

orujo🇵🇰

rujorumble

a brief thread on how Muslim world influenced the scientific revolution, something which the present generation should be made aware of! Abbas ibn Firnas, the first man to attempt flight,

Andrej Bauer

andrejbauer

Why do we define logical implication p ⇒ q the way we do? Is it an arbitrary convention, just a shorthand for ¬p ∨ q, or a fundamental concept of

Kevin Buzzard

XenaProject

Random Fermat's Last Theorem observation: the bridge between analysis and algebra in it is nonconstructive. Chris Birkbeck, a post-doc at UCL, has been making modular forms in Lean. He

MamaKaAmo

Pruhdeee

Mjolo is The Theorem of Pythagoras

Alex Kontorovich

AlexKontorovich

Ok, take the quadratic polynomialf(n) = n^2-n+41,and notice that f(1)=41, f(2)=43, ... f(40)=1601 are *all* prime. There's a rather deep reason for this. (Thread)The discriminant of the quadratic isD =

Eagle Eye

SortedEagle

Credit of Atomic theory has been taken by Western world, Acharya Kanad (600 BC) was the founder of Atomic theory, law of causation & the atomic theory. Acharya Kanad had

Mijke Rhemtulla

mijkenijk

My partner and I have the same teaching schedule this quarter. Our kids are 20 months and 4 years. We have a babysitter watching the kids part time so we

alexbo.land

interpretantion

1/ The debate over the philosophical implications of Godel's incompleteness theorems seem extremely misguided to me. They *are*, in my opinion, a proof that not all is mechanism, *but* it

Great Women of Mathematics

GWOMaths

GREAT WOMAN OF MATHEMATICS: EMILIE DU CHATELET, 1706-1749. Growing up in the household of a member of French nobility gave her better access to education than was typical for women

Alexander J. Sutherland

Alex_Does_Math

Earlier this week, I had the opportunity to give a guest lecture in @ClaudioJacobo's math history course. I wanted to take some time to share why this was so important

Ankur Warikoo

warikoo

I turned 40 this weekHere is a list of things I have failed at.My Failure ResumeA thread... Getting into the IITs was a dream.I tried during my 12th.Didn't make it.Not

Great Women of Mathematics

GWOMaths

GREAT WOMAN OF MATHEMATICS: DR. EMMY NOETHER, 1882-1935. Responsible for concept of "Noetherian" mathematical objects, colleague of Einstein, genius whose work unified topology, geometry, logic, and algebra. Noether grew up

Exposing Hedgewik Comic's Bigotry 🚨REFOLLOW🚨

leewald

Wow.... so Hedgewik actually made a good point and didn't realize it!!BIBOCX are overrepresented in crime statistics because systemic white supremacy forces them to rape and kill people. The Science