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monsoon0

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mathematician, wife, mother, Professor, addicted to math

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There is a mysterious connection between #algebraic #surfaces and solutions of non-linear differential equations called the #Painlevé equations. Marta Mazzocco
@unibirmingham Pieter Roffelsen and I
@sydney_uni show surprising variations on this connection: https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.10541

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A proof is an amazing wonderful 🎉 thing… So I am wondering why the word “only” is in this sentence: “Researchers have obtained only mathematical proofs that quantum computers will offer large gains over current, classical computers” https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01692-9

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@johncarlosbaez The issue I am concerned with is more about how the word “only” casts aspersions on what are (I hope!) valid mathematical constructs. Without them, the bridge we are walking along to get to operational quantum computers would be even more flimsy than we imagine, no?

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Do you want to know more about the mathematics of #quantum computing? This @SMBCComics is a great start 👇🏼 https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/the-talk-3

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Suppose E is an elliptic curve. I have groups of transformations that are compositions of automorphisms of E and a translation of the marked point on E. Is there a name for these transformations? #mathematics

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What is it that stops #mathematicians from speaking up about things they'd like to work on?

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Counterexamples are so useful. Why are they buried in the middle of papers authored by people who didn’t actually formulate them? In the paper I’m reading, one small benefit at least is that the inventor of the counterexample is named 🤷🏽‍♀️ But I want to know more, so much more …

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Let’s imagine that a person has prepared lecture notes, tutorials, and all the material for a semester-long course, which she was allocated several months ago to teach for semester 1, which is starting in a week. /1

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Now let’s imagine that she receives an email just before she is set to leave for a conference stating that she cannot reach the previously allocated course, but must reach a new course with different material she must produce, starting in a week’s time… /2

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She starts a response saying “Is this a joke?” /3

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“No” the answer comes. Apparently, the statement says she has taught many similar level courses before, and therefore must have material from those she can use for this new course.. /4

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My question to you, dear reader, is: would this happen to an alpha male ? /5

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What would your advice be for a person in this position? /6

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@j_bertolotti Ahh … apologies are scarce commodity in academia …

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@christianp I am told the original course can’t be taught this year…

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@christianp Thank you for saying it’s not ok. I needed that …

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Due to distortions by cartels “the publishing analytics company Clarivate has excluded the entire field of math from the most recent edition of its influential list of authors of highly cited papers, released in November 2023”

https://www.science.org/content/article/citation-cartels-help-some-mathematicians-and-their-universities-climb-rankings

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Such a great story “Emma's passion is maths — this whole project started because she wanted to answer the question of whether magpies mean to hurt us, using maths.” https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-01-09/magpies-swoop-bald-more-often-survey-finds/103297520

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A rare property of 2024 🎉 is that it’s a tetrahedral number …
[img credit: Wikipedia/Tetrahedral_number]

A pyramidal stack of transparent coloured spheres, arranged in 5 layers, with green at the base layer, then blue, yellow, red, and grey at the apex.

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How women are written out of stories of mathematical discovery: “Ruzsa published Marton’s conjecture in 1999, giving her full credit. ‘She came to that conjecture independently of me and Freiman, and probably before us,’ he said. ‘That’s why, when I talked to her, I decided to call it her conjecture.’ Still, mathematicians now refer to it as the polynomial Freiman-Ruzsa conjecture, or PFR.” https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-team-of-math-proves-a-critical-link-between-addition-and-sets-20231206/

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I’m speaking to a group of 200 high school students tomorrow (Years 9-10 in the Australian system) about mathematics. Any suggestions?

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Mathematics for Humanity Learning Seminar is a short series of online presentations introducing early career mathematical scientists to some of the ways in which mathematics can contribute to humanity 👉🏼 the first talk will be at 15 November 2023, 17:00 (UTC)
Speaker: Doyne Farmer
Title: Complexity economics: An unexplored mathematical wilderness. See https://www.minhyongkim.net/research/current-seminars/mathematics-for-humanity for 📽️ details

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First touch of frost this morning in . Autumn has finally arrived! 🥶
What's the weather where you are?

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@christianp It’s spring in Sydney. Today was cool (13C right now after sunset) but looking forward to 31C on Sunday …

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Interviewer: How do you think about your own mortality? Raymond Tallis: Well, I'm not in favour of it.

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@ColinTheMathmo Reminds me of the story that goes : Interviewer: Have you lived your whole life here? Old man: Not yet.

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This list of academics on Mathstodon is somewhat useful:

https://github.com/nathanlesage/academics-on-mastodon

But it doesn't list mathematicians or physicists. It does list "theologidons". What's a theologidon? A don who is a theologian?

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@johncarlosbaez See https://truesciphi.org/mat_mas.html

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