The Goldbach Conjecture - An unsolved Mystery Thread🧵
In 1742, Christian Goldbach made an observation that
every even integer greater than 2 can be expressed as the sum of two primes. Seems simple enough, right?
What seems simple, haunted mathematicians for centuries!! 👇
The stars of Orion’s Belt—Alnitak, Alnilam, and Mintaka—are tens of times larger and hotter than the Sun. If one replaced the Sun, its radiation would wipe out every planet in our solar system.
Looking forward to hosting this summer's LinkIT Data Forward Institute in @EastWillistonSD. Join us for a great day of learning: https://t.co/OFkgKUxXcV
Math.
Two 70-year-old papers by Alan Turing on the theory of code breaking have been released by the government's communications headquarters, GCHQ. Info: https://t.co/wszZ7jsdam
Hermann Minkowski was born exactly 161 years ago today. He showed that space and time form a unified four-dimensional "spacetime", a key idea that inspired Einstein’s relativity theory
If you're looking to help kids crave the mathematics you teach, check out this running list of mathematical headaches from @ddmeyer: https://t.co/HUcHSoaWoQ. It covers elementary topics through Calculus. #MTBoS
Congratulations to the Wheatley Class of 2025! Your journey is just beginning—keep dreaming big, working hard, and making your mark on the world. #ewlearns
Congrats to Krish Kripalani, Grade 11 @wheatleyschool, on being named a Borlaug Scholar at the 2025 World Food Prize New York Youth Institute! He presented original solutions to malnutrition in Honduras at Cornell. Amazing! #ewlearns@EWSDMath