Happy birthday to Alan Turing, OBE, FRS (1912 – 1954), British #mathematician, #cryptanalyst, computer scientist, prophet & 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

#OnThisDay Birth Anniversary of John Nash (1928) - American mathematician who made fundamental contributions to #GameTheory, and Scottish #Mathematician James Clerk Maxwell (1831). Maxwell's equations for electromagnetism have been called the "second great unification in physics".

Birth Anniversary of "#FlyingFinn" Paavo Nurmi (1897) and #Irish #Poet W. B. Yeats (1865).

Happy Birthday #CaptainAmerica Chris Evans (1981).

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Happy birthday to #mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani (1977-2017)! The Fields Medal, one of the most prestigious #math awards, is awarded to mathematicians < 40. In 2014, she became 1st woman to win. Her research included Teichmüller theory, hyperbolic geometry, ergodic theory, & symplectic geometry, and Fields committee cited her work in “the dynamics and geometry of Riemann surfaces and their moduli spaces”.⁠
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Happy birthday #mathematician Henri Poincaré
(1854-1912), here in my Cubist #linocut portrait.

This print is about how movements in art can be connected with contemporary #math & #physics. Specifically, the way #Cubism breaks from a single favoured perspective or absolute frame of reference & breaks down subjects into geometrical shapes from multiple points of view can be tied to advancements in non-Euclidian geometry in math & special

Happy birthday to British #engineer, #mathematician, #physicist & #inventor Hertha Ayrton (1854-1923). I’ve shown her in my #linocut with a diagram of the dividers from her 1st of 26 (!) patents, one of her diagrams about the origin & growth of ripple marks & one of her diagrams of an electric arc lamp (a subject on which she literally wrote the textbook).⁠
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Born Phoebe Sarah Marks, she was the 3rd of 8 children

Happy birthday to #mathematician 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.
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#Math #Stories: The Moment A Famous #Mathematician Woke Up : Medium

#Device enables direct #Communication among multiple #Quantum #Processors : MIT

#Spaghetti #Science: What #Pasta reveals about the #Universe : BBC

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Explaining the #TrumpTariff #Equation - YouTube

A #Mathematician explains how banal and simple the #algorithm is for putting the whole #WorldEconomy in turmoil.

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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
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I have a question for the #Astrophotographer and #Mathematician folks out there.

What is the smallest number of frames you could perform a drizzle transform on?

Could you, for example, perform it on two frames, and then submit that image to a livestacking process?

Does this idea even make sense?

As for "Why do this?", I am looking at the #SmartTelescope 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.

I figured I'd ask here first, because (conceptually) it seems almost too simple.

#astronomy #Astrodon #DumbQuestion

Happy birthday to Gerardus Mercator (1512-1594) renown Flemish cartographer.

What made Mercator a great #cartographer, was in fact his abilities as a #mathematician -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

For #BlackHistoryMonth: #mathematician & geodesist Gladys West (née Brown 1930)! Shown with satellite tracks & 3 satellites important to her career: Seasat, GEOS-3 & 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

Happy birthday to Marjorie Rice (née Jeuck, 1923–2017) who discovered 4 new pentagonal tilings of the Euclidian plane!

The San Diego mother of 5 (6th died in infancy) completed half a correspondence art course after high school & had no training as a #mathematician but was always interested in #math & art. She began to follow SciAm writer/amateur mathematician Martin Gardner’s column, rushing to devour the magazine before her

Happy birthday to #mathematician 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 > 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 > m; to fit the pigeons in the pigeonholes,

It’s #BlackHistoryMonth so it’s a good time to celebrate the extraordinary mathematician and NASA scientist Katherine Johnson (née Coleman; August 26, 1918 – February 24, 2020). One of the first Black women employed as a NASA scientist (and its predecessor NACA), she was known for her mastery of complex manual calculations of orbital mechanics and played a pivotal role in the success of

I'm busy writing a #Python program that creates (virtual) #Lego #moc files for #LEOCad. But, I've hit a #combinatorics wall, and my #maths-fu fails me here...

Are/is there any #programmer and/or #mathematician who can help me?

See picture for what I'm trying to do...

Happy birthday to #mathematician David Hilbert (1862-1943)! This #linocut illustrates the paradox of Hilbert’s Grand Hotel, a thought experiment conceived by Hilbert in 1924 to show the paradox of infinite sets. If you imagine a regular hotel with a finite number of rooms, if they are all filled you can’t add more guests. In an imaginary infinite hotel however, guests are always welcome!

Happy birthday to Russian #mathematician & writer Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevski (1850-1891). Her contributions to analysis, differential equations & mechanics include Cauchy-Kovalevski theorem & the famed Kovalevski top. She was 1st woman appointed to full prof in N Europe or to serve as editor of a major sci journal. She is also remembered for her contributions to Russian literature. All of this despite living when women were still barred from attending

Happy birthday to #mathematician & #astronomer Nicole-Reine Lepaute (1723-1788)! My #linocut celebrates her calculated path of the solar eclipse of 1764. She also worked with Alexis Clairaut & Jérôme Lalande to precisely calculate the date of return of Halley’s Comet solving the notorious 3-body by hand (including the gravitational pull of Jupiter & Saturn on orbit). They worked in parallel, calculating for 6 months straight barely stopping