Siobhan Roberts

Journalist in Residence, SLMath @mathmoves. Contributor @NYTScience. She/her. @[email protected]

[Siobhan Roberts @sioroberts]

"Math can help! As always!"

I wrote a profile of the radically creative mathematician Ingrid Daubechies for @NYTMag.

https://t.co/zBWpqEn86H

[Princeton University Press @PrincetonUPress]

Out now!

New #paperback editions of @sioroberts's illuminating biographies, The Man Who Saved Geometry: The Multidimensional Mind of Donald Coxeter and Genius at Play: The Curious Mind of John Horton Conway have arrived.

Learn more: https://t.co/Y1YHMeegDy #Biography

[Siobhan Roberts @sioroberts]

Hello, Coxeter.
Hello, Conway.
It's me, your biographer. I've missed you two.
Happy new-editions day!
With @princetonupress, and covers by the inimitable Christian Gralingen.

[bellye66 (Douglas Bell) @bellye66]

Two biographies by ⁦@sioroberts⁩ (a fave of mine) rereleased by ⁦@PrincetonUPress⁩ with fabulous designs by Christian Gralingen and a groovy new blurb that left me entirely starstruck (see below) Coming October 29th to bookstores across various parts of planet earth.

[Siobhan Roberts @sioroberts]

https://t.co/tNrytuqep2

[Siobhan Roberts @sioroberts]

Hello, AlphaProof! https://t.co/5RMGPZPhal

[Siobhan Roberts @sioroberts]

@ppreville @mufferaw @ipearson @charlotte_gill @banffcentre Ditto. On all counts.

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Mathematicians gathered in Kyiv and Warsaw to inaugurate a new center and “open, or reopen, Ukrainian science for the world.”
https://t.co/I1VPjf9Slv

[Siobhan Roberts @sioroberts]

@n_vpatel @nytopinion Three cheers!

[bellye66 (Douglas Bell) @bellye66]

1. Lately I joined @heerjeet to record -- for @thenation's Time Of Monsters podcast -- the back end of a two-part discussion on the movie #Oppenheimer. Here I have a go at Jeet's specialty the tweetstorm. https://t.co/XWY0wJQwy0

[Adithi Ramakrishnan @adithi_r1]

I spent the past week at @the_IAS science journalism workshop, where I met the coolest reporters & learned how to deepen my storytelling, beat reporting and more. Thanks @nattyover @sioroberts for a wonderful experience!! 🧬🧪✍🏽

[Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) @the_IAS]

Welcome to Janine and all of our Science Journalism Workshop participants! This week's program, led by @nattyover and @sioroberts, provides an opportunity for emerging science journalists to hone their skills in an intensive environment on the IAS campus: https://t.co/v9ZgHmE4dK

[The New York Times @nytimes]

For thousands of years, mathematicians have adapted to the latest advances in logic and reasoning. Are they ready for artificial intelligence? https://t.co/fuiXlZ97os

[NYT Science @NYTScience]

Only in the last couple years have mathematicians started worrying about A.I.’s potential threats, whether to mathematical aesthetics or to themselves https://t.co/cmkSWyazUE

[Quanta Magazine @QuantaMagazine]

The Euclid satellite will take billions of images of galaxies to give Valeria Pettorino (@vpettorino) and other cosmologists better understanding of the universe’s evolution. In 2018 @sioroberts spoke with Pettorino about her hopes and plans for Euclid.
https://t.co/8BxVllHIht

[NYT Science @NYTScience]

“Who would believe that a little polygon could kick up such a fuss,” said Marjorie Senechal, a mathematician at Smith College who will speak at the Hatfest conference in July. https://t.co/7k4yArqEyW

[bellye66 (Douglas Bell) @bellye66]

In math there's always breaking news and lately there's plenty "fit to print". @sioroberts continues previous reporting in @nytscience with another saga of an "Einstein" tiling the plane.

With a New, Improved ‘Einstein,’ Puzzlers Settle a Math Problem https://t.co/WMcBc9p5dr

[The New York Times @nytimes]

The OEIS, which has been praised as “the master index to mathematics” and “a mathematical equivalent to the FBI’s voluminous fingerprint files,” is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, with 362,765 entries (and counting). https://t.co/pYAzuGqjbm

[London Mathematical Society @LondMathSoc]

"Mirzakhani could be private and retiring, but she was also indomitable and energetic, especially at the blackboard"

On #May12, it's always worth revisiting this wonderful @NewYorker portrait of Maryam Mirzakhani by @sioroberts.

#WomenInMaths #May12WIM
https://t.co/DdVLKR0V5Q

[Siobhan Roberts @sioroberts]

The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature, by the great @sarahlovesmaths https://t.co/Lqkv1NVCFH

[Margaret Wertheim @margaretwerth]

A retired printing technician has discovered the elusive #Einstein tile - a single shape that #tiles a plane always #aperiodically. What a great moment for amateur #mathematics, and for tiling theory. Hooray @sioroberts

https://t.co/mIfDytXbo9