Jay Cummings

Math prof. Author of long-form textbooks on proofs ( real analysis ( & math history (

[Jay Cummings @LongFormMath]

🧵 My 3rd book is now out! It is on the fascinating history of math.

How did people throughout history think about math?What problems did they care about? How did they express them? How were they solved?

This book includes a lot of historical math.

https://t.co/WQ3RRI6J4T

[໊ @buffys]

what happened in 1993?

[Ash Jogalekar @curiouswavefn]

“As a graduate student, I once asked the late Professor John von Neumann whether he thought computers would replace the mathematician. His answer was, “Sonny, don’t worry about it.” - Jeremy Bernstein

[prof-g @prof_g]

everyone is excited over erdos problems atm, but the most significant mathematical impact of ai may manifest in applied math...

[Лъчезар Томов @Lptomov82]

https://t.co/HIUCYk8sjD A way of thinking every intelligent person must learn

[Jay Cummings @LongFormMath]

@RyanMcC35236715 Very interesting. I would have assumed that was pretty rare.

[Jay Cummings @LongFormMath]

“Mathematicians and scientists often speak very different languages. AI is potentially going to lead to a real renaissance in applied math, where pure mathematicians who are domain experts are now going to have the perfect conversation partner to be able to take their ideas and connect them with real-world things.”
https://t.co/MecehlhW9a

[Jay Cummings @LongFormMath]

With Columbia, every Ivy League school now requires or strongly recommends standardized test scores
https://t.co/79EHxQ0Xm5

[Jay Cummings @LongFormMath]

(I am mostly just being snarky about hearing the fact about the spelling of odd numbers too many times)

[Jay Cummings @LongFormMath]

@davidbessis What is your genius classmate doing now?

[Jay Cummings @LongFormMath]

The rationals are countable

[Physics In History @PhysInHistory]

What's your favorite 'simple but profound' scientific fact or mathematical theorem that always amazes you? ✍️

[||🥞餅||² @innerproductH12]

Opinion | How to Make a Decision When There’s No ‘Right’ One - The New York Times
https://t.co/Qpqa0GIoib

[Phil Hoyeck @PAHoyeck]

“A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.”

—Ludwig Wittgenstein

[Jay Cummings @LongFormMath]

Baby Rudin

[Eric Alper 🎧 @ThatEricAlper]

What's a book you read in school that stayed with you long after you finished it?

[Jay Cummings @LongFormMath]

I just read that Charles Darwin made Pros-and-Cons list when deciding whether or not he should get married (to his first cousin).

One of the 9 benefits to staying single: “more money for books”

[Jay Cummings @LongFormMath]

@xanderatch Constant rate, moving around the circle clockwise. Starting at A, it’s 15 steps to P and another 15 to E

[Jay Cummings @LongFormMath]

Animal that moves through the alphabet (mod 26) at a constant rate

[Adam Aaronson @aaaronson]

Animals that move through the alphabet at a constant rate

[Jay Cummings @LongFormMath]

Euclid’s Elements should be included here

[Jeremy Wayne Tate @JeremyTate41]

Arguably the 50 most influential books in history.

Most of us spent 12+ years in school and were assigned almost none of them.

How many have you read?

[Alvaro Lozano-Robledo @mathandcobb]

I have made a video in support of the Leiden Declaration. Thanks to @nasqret and the other members of the working group that put this important document together!

https://t.co/conUc8hnwy

[Jay Cummings @LongFormMath]

@mathandcobb @nasqret Good video! Thank you for telling the broader community about it