I've been at the Bank of England tonight for a private viewing of their new exhibition, The Future of Money, for which I developed some #maths-focussed teacher resource packs (downloadable for free from the exhibition website).
Far from an afterthought, a maths resource pack was intended to accompany the exhibition from the early planning stages. This was really heartening and I look forward to seeing more #museums following this trend!
If I tell you the value of x, rounded to 3 decimal places, then you can sometimes gain more information if I also tell you x rounded to 2 decimal places.
Born #onthisday in 1835, Josef Stefan was an ethnic Carinthian Slovene physicist, mathematician, and poet of the Austrian Empire [1].
During his lifetime Stefan published nearly 80 scientific articles, most appearing in the Bulletins of the Vienna Academy of Sciences.
Stefan is perhaps best known for his study of blackbody radiation [2] and for discovering what we now call Stefan's law, a physical power law which states that the total radiation from a blackbody is proportional to the fourth power of its (thermodynamic) temperature. Stefan's law was later extended to grey bodies by one of Stefan's students, Ludwig Boltzmann [3], and is now known as the Stefan–Boltzmann law [4].
Concentration of measures:
Talagrand's "work illustrates the idea that the interplay of many random events can, counter-intuitively, lead to outcomes that are more predictable, and gives estimates for the extent to which the uncertainty is reigned in."
not sure I fully grasp things like the Axiom of Specification and the Axiom of Replacement .. or even the Axiom of Union ... ... and what kind of "language" properties can be made of for the Axiom of Replacement ...
so I'm watching Richard E Borcherds playlist on Axiomatic Set Theory
English polymath Isaac Newton, who was a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, and theologian, died #onthisday in 1727.
His pioneering book Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (1687) consolidated many previous results and established classical mechanics [1]. He also made seminal contributions to optics (among many other things), and shares credit with Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz for developing calculus.
🎬 Le théorème de Marguerite (🇨🇵 2023 🇨🇭) est un #film d’Anna Novion avec Ella Rumpf (césar), Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Clotilde Courau et Julien Frison.
📝 Marguerite, brillante étudiante de l’ENS, termine sa thèse sur la conjecture de Goldbach dirigée par Laurent Werner. Elle présente ses résultats lors d’un séminaire lorsque Lucas, un autre étudiant de Werner, trouve une erreur. Un film prenant et intéressant sur le monde de la recherche en #maths.
To celebrate, let's look back at this 127-year-old bill that was passed in the Indiana House of Representatives which attempted to legislate a wildly incorrect solution to the squaring a circle problem and thereby legalize an incorrect value of π.
What better way to honour this mathematical marvel (π) than by baking a delicious pie that resembles the CMS detector? 🥧
Today, embrace the magic of circles – from pizzas and pancakes to clocks and planets. 🪐🍕
Take a moment to appreciate the beauty and wonder of math in our everyday world.