Really excited to record a podcast with @SeamusBlackley. He is a theoretical physicist and the founder of Xbox. Drop your questions, we will try to ask him.
Born #OnThisDay in 1887 was Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan. Though he had very little formal training, his work was substantial, often using methods that were completely novel. In 1918 he became one of the youngest Fellows of the Royal Society. https://t.co/XqvU8okbMK
The 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics will be announced tomorrow. Who will win? Here's my guess: The modern pioneers of Einstein's "spooky action at a distance." Anton Zeilinger, John Clauser and Alain Aspect.
BREAKING NEWS:
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2022 #NobelPrize in Physics to Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger.
Born #OTD 1931: Roger Penrose, one of the leading mathematical physicists, geometers and cosmologists of the 20th century. With Hawking he developed singularity theorems, and invented non-periodic Penrose tilings. His popular science books are fascinating and mind-expanding.
Very excited to present Minerva🦉: a language model capable of solving mathematical questions using step-by-step natural language reasoning.
Combining scale, data and others dramatically improves performance on the STEM benchmarks MATH and MMLU-STEM. https://t.co/bQJOyMSCD4
Today is May 15. #OTD in 1857 astronomer Williamina Fleming was born. She discovered 10 novae, 59 gaseous nebulae, and more than 300 variable stars, plus the iconic Horsehead Nebula in Orion. She also recognized the existence of hot, Earth-sized stars later dubbed white dwarfs.
We finally have the first look at our Milky Way black hole, Sagittarius A*. It’s the dawn of a new era of black hole physics. Credit: EHT Collaboration. #OurBlackHole#SgrABlackHole
Link: https://t.co/Ax7ECRVg8A
"It’s important for girls to see that there are successful women in math who are making a positive impact on society such as Dr. Mirzakhani," says Alicia Tan, 2022 MAA AMC Certificate winner.
Happy birthday to Maryam Mirzakhani, and happy #WomenInMath day!
Today is May 9. #OTD in 1931 physicist Albert A. Michelson passed away. He established the speed of light as a fundamental constant in the Michelson-Morley experiment, and pursued other spectroscopic and metrological investigations. He received the 1907 @NobelPrize for Physics.
Today May 2. #OTD in 1519 Leonardo da Vinci passed away. His skill and intelligence, perhaps more than that of any other person, epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal. His notebooks reveal a spirit of scientific inquiry and an inventiveness centuries ahead of their time.
Today April 28. #OTD in 1906 logician Kurt Gödel was born.Proved what may be the most important mathematical result of 20th century-Incompleteness Theorem:within any axiomatic system there are propositions that cannot be proved or disproved on basis of axioms within that system
Today is April 23. #OTD in 1858 theoretical physicist Max Planck was born. He originated Quantum Theory, which won him the @NobelPrize for Physics in 1918.This theory revolutionized our understanding of atomic and subatomic processes.
Mathematician Shing-Tung Yau (丘成桐), Fields Medalist who proved Calabi's conjecture on the existence of unique metrics with certain properties on compact, complex Kähler manifolds, and who proved the positivity of ADM mass in GR, was born #OTD in 1949.
Image: D. Ferus, Berlin
Today April 1. #OTD in 1776 mathematician Sophie Germain was born.Contributed notably to acoustics, elasticity, and theory of numbers.Self-taught from books and from correspondence with famous mathematicians, Lagrange, Legendre, and Gauss (under pseudonym of "Monsieur LeBlanc").
The French mathematician and philosopher René Descartes was born 426 years ago. He developed the “cartesian” coordinate system, which is named after him. His work also provided the foundations for discovering calculus a few decades later. Learn more at https://t.co/b5fVqjjPib
Today is March 23. #OTD in 1882 mathematician Emmy Noether was born. She made many contributions to abstract algebra. She also discovered Noether's theorem, which is fundamental in mathematical physics, relating symmetries to conservation laws.
Joseph Fourier was born 254 years ago #onthisday. The French mathematician and physicist invented Fourier series to explain vibrations and heat transfer. He also discovered the Greenhouse effect! Learn more at https://t.co/JgUjKDREXN