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Ele Willoughby, PhD<p>Happy birthday to Alan Turing, OBE, FRS (1912 – 1954), British <a href="https://spore.social/tags/mathematician" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mathematician</span></a>, <a href="https://spore.social/tags/cryptanalyst" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cryptanalyst</span></a>, computer scientist, prophet &amp; hero. Turing foresaw not only that machines might quite likely develop the capacity to think (after all, our brains are only made of matter, and complex systems of neurons, which either fire or not, much like an electronic switch), but that we needed an objective, double-blind test to determine whether 🧵1/n</p><p><a href="https://spore.social/tags/sciart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sciart</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>printmaking</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>linocut</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/compsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>compsci</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/histsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>histsci</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/mastoart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mastoart</span></a></p>
Knowledge Zone<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a> British <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Mathematician" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Mathematician</span></a> Andrew Wiles proved last <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Theorem" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Theorem</span></a> of <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Fermat" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Fermat</span></a> (1993).</p><p>Birth Anniversary of <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/French" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>French</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Philosopher" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Philosopher</span></a> Jean-Paul Sartre (1905) - one of the leading figures in 20th-century French philosophy and Marxism.</p><p>Today is World <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/MusicDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MusicDay</span></a>, International Day of <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Yoga" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Yoga</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://knowledgezone.co.in/news" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">knowledgezone.co.in/news</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Knowledge Zone<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a> Birth Anniversary of John Nash (1928) - American mathematician who made fundamental contributions to <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/GameTheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GameTheory</span></a>, and Scottish <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Mathematician" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Mathematician</span></a> James Clerk Maxwell (1831). Maxwell&#39;s equations for electromagnetism have been called the &quot;second great unification in physics&quot;.</p><p>Birth Anniversary of &quot;<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/FlyingFinn" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FlyingFinn</span></a>&quot; Paavo Nurmi (1897) and <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Irish" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Irish</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Poet" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Poet</span></a> W. B. Yeats (1865).</p><p>Happy Birthday <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/CaptainAmerica" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CaptainAmerica</span></a> Chris Evans (1981).</p><p><a href="https://knowledgezone.co.in/news" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">knowledgezone.co.in/news</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Ele Willoughby, PhD<p>Happy birthday to <a href="https://spore.social/tags/mathematician" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mathematician</span></a> Maryam Mirzakhani (1977-2017)! The Fields Medal, one of the most prestigious <a href="https://spore.social/tags/math" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>math</span></a> awards, is awarded to mathematicians &lt; 40. In 2014, she became 1st woman to win. Her research included Teichmüller theory, hyperbolic geometry, ergodic theory, &amp; symplectic geometry, and Fields committee cited her work in “the dynamics and geometry of Riemann surfaces and their moduli spaces”.⁠<br>⁠🧵1/n<br>⁠<br><a href="https://spore.social/tags/sciart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sciart</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/mathart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mathart</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>linocut</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>printmaking</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/womeninSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>womeninSTEM</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/histsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>histsci</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/mastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mastoArt</span></a></p>
Ele Willoughby, PhD<p>Happy birthday <a href="https://spore.social/tags/mathematician" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mathematician</span></a> Henri Poincaré<br>(1854-1912), here in my Cubist <a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>linocut</span></a> portrait.</p><p>This print is about how movements in art can be connected with contemporary <a href="https://spore.social/tags/math" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>math</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://spore.social/tags/physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>physics</span></a>. Specifically, the way <a href="https://spore.social/tags/Cubism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cubism</span></a> breaks from a single favoured perspective or absolute frame of reference &amp; breaks down subjects into geometrical shapes from multiple points of view can be tied to advancements in non-Euclidian geometry in math &amp; special 🧵</p><p><a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>printmaking</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/sciart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sciart</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/Poincar%C3%A9" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Poincaré</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MastoArt</span></a></p>
Ele Willoughby, PhD<p>Happy birthday to British <a href="https://spore.social/tags/engineer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>engineer</span></a>, <a href="https://spore.social/tags/mathematician" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mathematician</span></a>, <a href="https://spore.social/tags/physicist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>physicist</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://spore.social/tags/inventor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>inventor</span></a> Hertha Ayrton (1854-1923). I’ve shown her in my <a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>linocut</span></a> with a diagram of the dividers from her 1st of 26 (!) patents, one of her diagrams about the origin &amp; growth of ripple marks &amp; one of her diagrams of an electric arc lamp (a subject on which she literally wrote the textbook).⁠<br>⁠<br>Born Phoebe Sarah Marks, she was the 3rd of 8 children 🧵</p><p> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>printmaking</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/sciart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sciart</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/WomenInSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WomenInSTEM</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/histstm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>histstm</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/suffragette" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>suffragette</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MastoArt</span></a></p>
Ele Willoughby, PhD<p>Happy birthday to <a href="https://spore.social/tags/mathematician" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mathematician</span></a> Felix Klein (1849-1925). This is a hand-carved and hand-printed image of the famous mathematical object, the Klein bottle, printed in a gradient of pale yellow-green to darker blue-green on paper 8” by 8” (20.3 cm by 20.3 cm). First described by mathematician Felix Klein in 1882, this object has a single surface, rather like a 3D version of a Möbius strip. 🧵<br><a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>linocut</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/sciart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sciart</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>printmaking</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/mathart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mathart</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/FelixKlein" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FelixKlein</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/histstm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>histstm</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/mathematics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mathematics</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/maths" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>maths</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/reliefPrint" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>reliefPrint</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MastoArt</span></a></p>
Knowledge Zone<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Math" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Math</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Stories" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Stories</span></a>: The Moment A Famous <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Mathematician" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Mathematician</span></a> Woke Up : Medium</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Device" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Device</span></a> enables direct <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Communication" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Communication</span></a> among multiple <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Quantum" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Quantum</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Processors" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Processors</span></a> : MIT</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Spaghetti" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Spaghetti</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Science</span></a>: What <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Pasta" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Pasta</span></a> reveals about the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Universe" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Universe</span></a> : BBC</p><p>Check our latest <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/KnowledgeLinks" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>KnowledgeLinks</span></a></p><p><a href="https://knowledgezone.co.in/resources/bookmarks" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">knowledgezone.co.in/resources/</span><span class="invisible">bookmarks</span></a></p>
Knowledge Zone<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a> Birth Anniversary of <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Mathematician" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Mathematician</span></a> Leonhard Euler (1707) - responsible for developing many concepts that are an integral part of modern <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Mathematics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Mathematics</span></a>.</p><p>Birth Anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci (1452) - widely considered one of the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Greatest" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Greatest</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Painters" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Painters</span></a> of all time.</p><p>Today is World <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ArtDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ArtDay</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://knowledgezone.co.in/news" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">knowledgezone.co.in/news</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Paul Balduf<p>Contrary to popular belief, <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/mathematician" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mathematician</span></a> s and theoretical <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/physicist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>physicist</span></a> s don't just discuss their theories on blackboards all day, but much of the research in practice involves <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/software" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>software</span></a> and coding. Recently, I started using <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/PariGP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PariGP</span></a> , which is an <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>opensource</span></a> algebra system that has existed since the 1980s but is still being actively developed today. It has amazing abilities in the realm of number theory, all sorts of modulus and p-adic computations, etc. I use it because it is very fast in handling power series and polynomials. Of course, it can deal with big rational numbers and arbitrary precision float. <br>I recommend reading the "GP tutorial" pdf. It is one of the most entertaining tutorials I have done in a long time, written in a subtle funny way 😄. <a href="https://pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr/doc.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr/doc.ht</span><span class="invisible">ml</span></a></p>
Khurram Wadee ✅<p>Explaining the <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/TrumpTariff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpTariff</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/Equation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Equation</span></a> - YouTube</p><p>A <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/Mathematician" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mathematician</span></a> explains how banal and simple the <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/algorithm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>algorithm</span></a> is for putting the whole <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/WorldEconomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WorldEconomy</span></a> in turmoil.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j04IAbWCszg" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=j04IAbWCsz</span><span class="invisible">g</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Politics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/Mathematics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mathematics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/Economics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Economics</span></a></p>
Ele Willoughby, PhD<p>Happy birthday to French mathematician, physicist and philosopher Marie-Sophie Germain (1776 – 1831), known as Sophie. She taught herself mathematics using books in her father’s library and by corresponding with leading mathematicians of her day, including Lagrange, Legendre and Gauss, initially using the pseudonym Monsieur LeBlanc. 🧵1/n<br>⁠<br><a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>linocut</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>printmaking</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/sciart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sciart</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/mathart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mathart</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/SophieGermain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SophieGermain</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/ChladniFigures" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ChladniFigures</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/mathematician" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mathematician</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/Fermat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fermat</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/womenInSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>womenInSTEM</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/physicist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>physicist</span></a></p>
Knowledge Zone<p>An Incredibly <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Ingenious" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Ingenious</span></a> Way to Make <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Crops" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Crops</span></a> More <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Resistant" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Resistant</span></a> Against <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Diseases" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Diseases</span></a>: Medium</p><p>How <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a> could make <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Earth" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Earth</span></a>&#39;s <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/SpaceJunk" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SpaceJunk</span></a> problem even worse : Space</p><p>Was <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/SamAltman" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SamAltman</span></a> Right About the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Job" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Job</span></a> Market? : Misc</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Mathematician" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Mathematician</span></a> who reshaped <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Theory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Theory</span></a> of <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Symmetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Symmetry</span></a> wins <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/AbelPrize" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AbelPrize</span></a> : Nature</p><p>Check our latest <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/KnowledgeLinks" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>KnowledgeLinks</span></a></p><p><a href="https://knowledgezone.co.in/resources/bookmarks" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">knowledgezone.co.in/resources/</span><span class="invisible">bookmarks</span></a></p>
rdm<p>I have a question for the <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Astrophotographer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Astrophotographer</span></a> and <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Mathematician" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mathematician</span></a> folks out there.</p><p>What is the smallest number of frames you could perform a drizzle transform on? </p><p>Could you, for example, perform it on two frames, and then submit that image to a livestacking process?</p><p>Does this idea even make sense?</p><p>As for "Why do this?", I am looking at the <a href="https://aus.social/tags/SmartTelescope" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SmartTelescope</span></a> world, and wondering if you could perform the resolution increase in conjunction with live stacking, without resorting to post-processing. This is to attempt to allow a software-only capability upgrade, while still maintaining the convenience.</p><p>I figured I'd ask here first, because (conceptually) it seems almost too simple.<br> <br><a href="https://aus.social/tags/astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>astronomy</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Astrodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Astrodon</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/DumbQuestion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DumbQuestion</span></a></p>
Ele Willoughby, PhD<p>Happy birthday to Gerardus Mercator (1512-1594) renown Flemish cartographer. </p><p>What made Mercator a great <a href="https://spore.social/tags/cartographer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cartographer</span></a>, was in fact his abilities as a <a href="https://spore.social/tags/mathematician" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mathematician</span></a> -and like those of us scientists who feel compelled also to create art he was wasn’t hindered by his immense ability as an engraver. He produced beautiful world maps (a version of which is depicted in this print), globes, 🧵1/n</p><p><a href="https://spore.social/tags/geographer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>geographer</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/geography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>geography</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/histsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>histsci</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MastoArt</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/sciart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sciart</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>linocut</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>printmaking</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/mapart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mapart</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/maps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>maps</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/Mercator" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mercator</span></a></p>
Ele Willoughby, PhD<p>For <a href="https://spore.social/tags/BlackHistoryMonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BlackHistoryMonth</span></a>: <a href="https://spore.social/tags/mathematician" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mathematician</span></a> &amp; geodesist Gladys West (née Brown 1930)! Shown with satellite tracks &amp; 3 satellites important to her career: Seasat, GEOS-3 &amp; a GPS satellite. Her work, using math to precisely model the shape of Earth, laid the groundwork for GPS! Born to sharecropper parents in Virginia, she graduated with a Math BSc in ‘52 then MSc at VSU in ‘55. 🧵1/n</p><p><a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>linocut</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>printmaking</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/womenInSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>womenInSTEM</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/BlackInSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BlackInSTEM</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/histSci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>histSci</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/geodesy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>geodesy</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/EarthScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EarthScience</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/Math" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Math</span></a></p>
Ele Willoughby, PhD<p>Happy birthday to Marjorie Rice (née Jeuck, 1923–2017) who discovered 4 new pentagonal tilings of the Euclidian plane!</p><p>The San Diego mother of 5 (6th died in infancy) completed half a correspondence art course after high school &amp; had no training as a <a href="https://spore.social/tags/mathematician" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mathematician</span></a> but was always interested in <a href="https://spore.social/tags/math" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>math</span></a> &amp; art. She began to follow SciAm writer/amateur mathematician Martin Gardner’s column, rushing to devour the magazine before her 🧵</p><p><a href="https://spore.social/tags/womenInSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>womenInSTEM</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>printmaking</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/mathematics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mathematics</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>linocut</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/tiling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tiling</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MastoArt</span></a></p>
Ele Willoughby, PhD<p>Happy birthday to <a href="https://spore.social/tags/mathematician" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mathematician</span></a> Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (1805 –1859)! My lino block print illustrates the famous mathematical tool known as the pigeonhole principle, which states that if n items are put into m containers, with n &gt; m, then at least one container must contain more than one item. You can imagine a bunch, call it m, pigeonholes and n pigeons, where n &gt; m; to fit the pigeons in the pigeonholes, 🧵</p><p><a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>linocut</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>printmaking</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/sciart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sciart</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/mathart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mathart</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/mathematics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mathematics</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/histsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>histsci</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/mastoart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mastoart</span></a></p>
Knowledge Zone<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a> Birth Anniversary of <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/English" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>English</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Writer</span></a> Charles Dickens (1812) - regarded by many as the greatest <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Novelist" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Novelist</span></a> of the Victorian era.</p><p>Birth Anniversary of <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/English" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>English</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Mathematician" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Mathematician</span></a> G. H. Hardy (1877) - mentor of the Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan.</p><p>Happy Birthday Tawakkol Karman (1979) - co-recipient of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize, becoming the first Yemeni, the first Arab woman to win a <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/NobelPrize" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NobelPrize</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://knowledgezone.co.in/news" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">knowledgezone.co.in/news</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
David Perris<p><span>TIL about Oliver Heaviside.<br><br>He was an </span><a href="https://plasmatrap.com/tags/electrician" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#electrician</a> , <a href="https://plasmatrap.com/tags/mathematician" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#mathematician</a> and <a href="https://plasmatrap.com/tags/physicist" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#physicist</a><span> who made major contributions to the field of electro-magnetism.<br><br>He was born in </span><a href="https://plasmatrap.com/tags/Camden" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Camden</a> , in <a href="https://plasmatrap.com/tags/London" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#London</a> . He discovered ways to improve the performance of telegraph lines (the internet of the late 1800s), he patented the coaxial cable, and he re-formulated the <a href="https://plasmatrap.com/tags/Maxwell" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Maxwell</a><span> equations on electro-magnetism into the form they have today.<br><br>He was a Fellow of the Royal Society, and was the first recipient of the Faraday Medal.<br><br>He died after falling off a ladder.<br><br></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Heaviside" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Heaviside</a><span><br><br></span><a href="https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/blue-plaques/oliver-heaviside/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/blue-plaques/oliver-heaviside/</a><span><br><br></span><a href="https://plasmatrap.com/tags/TIL" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TIL</a> <a href="https://plasmatrap.com/tags/TodayILearned" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TodayILearned</a></p>