GREAT WOMAN OF MATHEMATICS: ALICIA BOOLE STOTT, 1860-1940. Child of two mathematicians, George and Mary Boole, she grew up with an unusually high level of exposure to mathematical education for a woman in her era. Her parents were responsible for developing the idea we #GWOM 1/6
does anyone know how i can cure myself of the specific brain disease that makes me dread tasks and put them off indefinitely until i do them and it's totally fine. is there some kind of drug i can take
Math lives atop a scaffolding of physics. Take this arboreal arrangement of quantum field theories, teeming w/ mathematical critters. A mysterious duality lurks beneath, hinting that critters of different realms share an unexpected kinship.
Welcome to the mirror symme-tree.
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Been thinking recently about the "Hawking question" in metaphysics: "What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?". I.e. given a set of (syntactic) laws, what guarantees the existence of a (semantic) entity that satisfies them? (1/7)