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Ele Willoughby, PhD<p>Happy birthday to trailblazing American computer scientist Frances Elizabeth Allen (1932 – 2020) who made foundational contributions to optimizing compilers, optimizing programs and parallel computing. She was the first woman to become an IBM Fellow, where she worked from 1957 to 2002 and as an emeritus fellow afterwards. She was the first woman to win the Turing Prize. </p><p>IBM Research was recruiting teachers 🧵1/n</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/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/mathematician" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mathematician</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/compsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>compsci</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/mastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mastoArt</span></a></p>

> 莫宗堅認為張益唐自由自在的個性不會適合學術圈的人才評價體制,還表示在承受磨難之後一鳴驚人也許真的就是張益唐的宿命("Maybe it was his destiny to endure and turn out to be great.")。

> 「幾十年前有一句話,好像說人的生命、追求、價值不是取決於你取得的東西,而是在你的追求中。德國劇作家萊辛說:『對真理的追求比對真理的佔有更為可貴。』愛因斯坦就喜歡引用他的話。即使我沒有成功,也不會覺得太遺憾。我在這個追求的過程中還是覺得很有價值的... 有人問我如果你出不來,是不是覺得一生就毀掉了?我覺得沒什麼,我活得好好的。」

> 陶哲軒不鼓勵前途還沒有着落的青年數學家效仿張益唐的這種一個人悶聲挑戰大難題的做法。

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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

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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#sciart #mathart #linocut #printmaking #womeninSTEM #histsci #mastoArt

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).⁠

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. 🧵
#linocut #sciart #printmaking #mathart #FelixKlein #histstm #mathematics #maths #reliefPrint #MastoArt

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 🧵

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 🧵

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Library of Alexandria in the Museum of Alexandria, largest & most significant library of the ancient world. She was the daughter of a famous #mathematician, Theon Alexandricus (ca. 335–405), with whom she worked & published edited versions of Classical texts in mathematics. She also pursued her education in Athens & Italy before returning to Alexandria.⠀

It is difficult to precisely specify her own contributions to math, since many documents have been lost (the Library of Alexandria 🧵2/n

Happy birthday to #mathematician & #polymath, Mary Fairfax Somerville (1780-1872). As a young widow she made a name for herself when she won a silver medal in 1811 from the Military College at Marlow math journal. Wallace suggested she read Laplace & finding she understood it as well as her tutor her confidence increased, & she expanded her studies to #astronomy, chemistry, #geography, microscopy, electricity & magnetism. 🧵
#printmaking #womeninstemm #linocut #sciart #MastoArt

Bonus #ArtAdventCalendar day 17 Happy birthday to Gabrielle Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Marquise du Châtelet (1706-1749), a natural philosopher, #mathematician and #physicist, shown here in my #linocut portrait with #diagrams from her ‘Principes Mathématiques de la Philosophie Naturelle’, a two-volume translation and commentary of Newton’s ‘Principia’, published in 1759 in French in Paris.🧵

#printmaking #histsci #WomenInSTEM #duChâtelet #physics #physicist #SciArt #mathematics #mastoart

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I'm Beth. I'm a queer mathematician who loves musical theater, webcomics, teaching math, and my cat.

Favorite areas of math: Topology, geometry, and combinatorics.

Favorite musicals: Chess, Into the Woods, Next to Normal, Sunday in the Park With George, Sweeney Todd

Favorite webcomics: this is long enough to get its own post:
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#Introduction #Queer #Mathematician #Math #Musicals #MusicalTheater #MusicalTheatre #Webcomics #Teaching #TeachingMath #Cat #Cats #SillyGoose #Topology #Geometry #Combinatorics #Chess #ChessTheMusical #IntoTheWoods #NextToNormal #SundayInTheParkWithGeorge #SweeneyTodd #PandorasTaleWiki #RainverseWiki

TransFem Space@2somethingThis is a selection of my favorite #WebComics. They are in alphabetical order, NOT order of preference. Alice and the Nightmare https://www.aliceandthenightmare.com/ #AliceAndTheNightmare Castoff https://castoff-comic.com/ https://tapas.io/series/Castoff https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/castoff/list?title_no=50984 #Castoff Cosmic Fish https://cosmicfishes.com/ #CosmicFish Dumbing of Age https://www.dumbingofage.com/ #DumbingOfAge Heartless https://heartless-comic.com/ #heartless Heroes of Thantopolis https://www.heroesofthantopolis.com/ #HeroesOfThantopolis Inhibit by @evegwood@mastodon.social et al https://inhibitcomic.com/ https://tapas.io/series/Inhibit/info https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/inhibit/list?title_no=40462 #Inhibit Kiwi Blitz https://www.kiwiblitz.com/ #KiwiBlitz Lefty Cartoons https://leftycartoons.com/ #LeftyCartoons Lies Within https://www.lieswithincomic.com/ #LiesWithin Monster Lands https://monster-lands.com/ #MonsterLands Namesake https://www.namesakecomic.com/ #Namesake Never Heroes https://www.neverheroescomic.com/ #NeverHeroes Never Satisfied https://www.neversatisfiedcomic.com/ #NeverSatisfied Nix of Nothing by @MLeeLunsford@mastodon.social https://www.nixofnothing.com/ #NixOfNothing No End https://noendcomic.com https://tapas.io/series/No-End/info https://www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/no-end/list?title_no=909579 #NoEnd Novae https://www.novaecomic.com/ https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/novae/list?title_no=106507 #Novae Pandora's Tale by @comicsbyxan https://pandorastale.com/ https://tapas.io/series/Pandoras-Tale https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/pandoras-tale/list?title_no=287377 #PandorasTale Pathways: Chronicles of Tuvana http://pathways.elainetipping.com/ https://tapas.io/series/Pathways-Chronicles-of-Tuvana https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/pathways-chronicles-of-tuvana/list?title_no=128848 #PathwaysChroniclesOfTuvana Radio Silence http://www.radiosilencecomic.com/ https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/radio-silence/list?title_no=35242 #RadioSilence Rain by @LynnSenpai@retro.pizza https://rain.thecomicseries.com/ #rain Recoil https://recoil.one/ https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/recoil/list?title_no=256833 #recoil Ruin of the House of the Divine Visage by @evegwood@mastodon.social et al visagecomic.com #RuinOfTheHouseOfTheDivineVisage Saints' Quarter https://saintsquarter.com/ https://tapas.io/series/SaintsQuarter https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/saintsquarter/list?title_no=65944 #SaintsQuarter Sister Claire https://www.sisterclaire.com/ #SisterClaire Skyvein https://www.skyveincomic.com/ https://tapas.io/series/skyvein https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/skyvein/list?title_no=651351&webtoon-platform-redirect=true #skyvein Sleepless Domain https://www.sleeplessdomain.com/ #SleeplessDomain Slightly Damned https://www.sdamned.com/ #SlightlyDamned Speak of the Devil by @MLeeLunsford@mastodon.social https://www.speakdevil.com/ #SpeakOfTheDevil StarHammer https://www.starhammercomic.com/ #StarHammer Suihira: The City of Water http://suihira.com/ https://tapas.io/series/Suihira https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/suihira-the-city-of-water/list?title_no=39385 #suihira Supernormal Step by @MLeeLunsford@mastodon.social https://www.supernormalstep.com/ #SuperNormalStep Tamberlane https://www.tamberlanecomic.com/ https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/tamberlane/list?title_no=372674 #tamberlane The End http://www.endcomic.com/ #TheEnd The Order of the Stick https://www.giantitp.com/ #TheOrderOfTheStick The Property of Hate https://jolleycomics.com/TPoH/The_Hook/1 #ThePropertyOfHate The Psions https://tapas.io/series/The-Psions #ThePsions The Roommate From Hell http://enchantedpencil.com/roomie/ https://tapas.io/series/The-Roommate-From-Hell https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/the-roommate-from-hell/list?title_no=206046 #TheRoommateFromHell The Sanity Circus https://www.sanitycircus.com/ #TheSanityCircus #SanityCircus This Is Not Fiction https://www.thisisnotfiction.com #ThisIsNotFiction Tigress Queen https://www.tigressqueen.com/ #TigressQueen Widdershins https://widdershinscomic.com/ #widdershins

Bonus #artAdventCalendar: Happy birthday to #mathematician Virginia Ragsdale (1870-1945). The Ragsdale conjecture, made in her 1906 dissertation, is amongst the earliest & most famous on the #topology of real & algebraic curves, which stimulated a lot of 20th century research & was not disproved until ‘79. A correct upper bound has yet to be found. In her dissertation she tackles the 16th of David Hilbert’s famous 23 unsolved problems in mathematics 🧵

Bonus #artAdventCalendar: Happy birthday to #mathematician & #computerscientist US Navy rear admiral Grace Hopper (1906-1992) who popularized the revolutionary idea of developing machine-independent programming languages based on English.

She began teaching at Vassar in 31 & got PhD (Yale) in 34. She found marriage & teaching less fulfilling & tried to enlist in the Navy, but was rejected then got a special exemption to volunteer for 🧵1/n