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Ele Willoughby, PhD<p>Happy birthday to <a href="https://spore.social/tags/mathematician" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" 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 noreferrer" 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 noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sciart</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/mathart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mathart</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linocut</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>printmaking</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/womeninSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>womeninSTEM</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/histsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>histsci</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/mastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" 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 noreferrer" 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 noreferrer" 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 noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>math</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://spore.social/tags/physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>physics</span></a>. Specifically, the way <a href="https://spore.social/tags/Cubism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" 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 noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>printmaking</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/sciart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sciart</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/Poincar%C3%A9" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Poincaré</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" 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 noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>engineer</span></a>, <a href="https://spore.social/tags/mathematician" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mathematician</span></a>, <a href="https://spore.social/tags/physicist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>physicist</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://spore.social/tags/inventor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" 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 noreferrer" 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 noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>printmaking</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/sciart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sciart</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/WomenInSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomenInSTEM</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/histstm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>histstm</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/suffragette" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>suffragette</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" 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 noreferrer" 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 noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linocut</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/sciart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sciart</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>printmaking</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/mathart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mathart</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/FelixKlein" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FelixKlein</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/histstm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>histstm</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/mathematics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mathematics</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/maths" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>maths</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/reliefPrint" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>reliefPrint</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MastoArt</span></a></p>
Knowledge Zone<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Math" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Math</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Stories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Stories</span></a>: The Moment A Famous <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Mathematician" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mathematician</span></a> Woke Up : Medium</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Device" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Device</span></a> enables direct <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Communication" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Communication</span></a> among multiple <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Quantum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Quantum</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Processors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Processors</span></a> : MIT</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Spaghetti" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Spaghetti</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Science</span></a>: What <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Pasta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pasta</span></a> reveals about the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Universe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Universe</span></a> : BBC</p><p>Check our latest <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/KnowledgeLinks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KnowledgeLinks</span></a></p><p><a href="https://knowledgezone.co.in/resources/bookmarks" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">knowledgezone.co.in/resources/</span><span class="invisible">bookmarks</span></a></p>
Khurram Wadee ✅<p>Explaining the <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/TrumpTariff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpTariff</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/Equation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Equation</span></a> - YouTube</p><p>A <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/Mathematician" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" 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 noreferrer" 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 noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WorldEconomy</span></a> in turmoil.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j04IAbWCszg" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" 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 noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Politics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/Mathematics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mathematics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/Economics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" 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 noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linocut</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>printmaking</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/sciart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sciart</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/mathart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mathart</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/SophieGermain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SophieGermain</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/ChladniFigures" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChladniFigures</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/mathematician" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mathematician</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/Fermat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fermat</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/womenInSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>womenInSTEM</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/physicist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>physicist</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 noreferrer" 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 noreferrer" 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 noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>geographer</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/geography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>geography</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/histsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>histsci</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MastoArt</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/sciart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sciart</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linocut</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>printmaking</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/mapart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mapart</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/maps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>maps</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/Mercator" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" 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 noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackHistoryMonth</span></a>: <a href="https://spore.social/tags/mathematician" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" 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 noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linocut</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>printmaking</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/womenInSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>womenInSTEM</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/BlackInSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackInSTEM</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/histSci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>histSci</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/geodesy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>geodesy</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/EarthScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EarthScience</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/Math" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" 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 noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mathematician</span></a> but was always interested in <a href="https://spore.social/tags/math" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" 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 noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>womenInSTEM</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>printmaking</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/mathematics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mathematics</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linocut</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/tiling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tiling</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" 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 noreferrer" 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 noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linocut</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>printmaking</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/sciart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sciart</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/mathart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mathart</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/mathematics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mathematics</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/histsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>histsci</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/mastoart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mastoart</span></a></p>
Ele Willoughby, PhD<p>It’s <a href="https://spore.social/tags/BlackHistoryMonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackHistoryMonth</span></a> 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 🧵</p><p><a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linocut</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>printmaking</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/sciart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sciart</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/womenInSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>womenInSTEM</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/BlackInSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackInSTEM</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/histstm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>histstm</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/NASA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NASA</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MastoArt</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/mathematician" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mathematician</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>physics</span></a></p>
Ele Willoughby, PhD<p>Happy birthday to <a href="https://spore.social/tags/mathematician" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mathematician</span></a> David Hilbert (1862-1943)! This <a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linocut</span></a> 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! 🧵</p><p><a href="https://spore.social/tags/sciart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sciart</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/mathart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mathart</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/histsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>histsci</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/mathematics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mathematics</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>printmaking</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/HilbertsGrandHotel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HilbertsGrandHotel</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/DavidHilbert" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DavidHilbert</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/infinity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>infinity</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MastoArt</span></a></p>
Ele Willoughby, PhD<p>Happy birthday to Russian <a href="https://spore.social/tags/mathematician" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mathematician</span></a> &amp; writer Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevski (1850-1891). Her contributions to analysis, differential equations &amp; mechanics include Cauchy-Kovalevski theorem &amp; 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 🧵</p><p> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/sciart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sciart</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>printmaking</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/WomenInSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomenInSTEM</span></a></p>
Ele Willoughby, PhD<p>Happy birthday to <a href="https://spore.social/tags/mathematician" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mathematician</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://spore.social/tags/astronomer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>astronomer</span></a> Nicole-Reine Lepaute (1723-1788)! My <a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linocut</span></a> celebrates her calculated path of the solar eclipse of 1764. She also worked with Alexis Clairaut &amp; 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 &amp; Saturn on orbit). They worked in parallel, calculating for 6 months straight barely stopping🧵</p><p><a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>printmaking</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/womeninSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>womeninSTEM</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/histsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>histsci</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/sciart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sciart</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MastoArt</span></a></p>
Ele Willoughby, PhD<p>Library of Alexandria in the Museum of Alexandria, largest &amp; most significant library of the ancient world. She was the daughter of a famous <a href="https://spore.social/tags/mathematician" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mathematician</span></a>, Theon Alexandricus (ca. 335–405), with whom she worked &amp; published edited versions of Classical texts in mathematics. She also pursued her education in Athens &amp; Italy before returning to Alexandria.⠀<br>⠀<br>It is difficult to precisely specify her own contributions to math, since many documents have been lost (the Library of Alexandria 🧵2/n</p>
Ele Willoughby, PhD<p>Happy birthday to <a href="https://spore.social/tags/mathematician" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mathematician</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://spore.social/tags/polymath" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>polymath</span></a>, 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 &amp; finding she understood it as well as her tutor her confidence increased, &amp; she expanded her studies to <a href="https://spore.social/tags/astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>astronomy</span></a>, chemistry, <a href="https://spore.social/tags/geography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>geography</span></a>, microscopy, electricity &amp; magnetism. 🧵<br><a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>printmaking</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/womeninstemm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>womeninstemm</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linocut</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/sciart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sciart</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MastoArt</span></a></p>
Ele Willoughby, PhD<p>Bonus <a href="https://spore.social/tags/ArtAdventCalendar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ArtAdventCalendar</span></a> day 17 Happy birthday to Gabrielle Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Marquise du Châtelet (1706-1749), a natural philosopher, <a href="https://spore.social/tags/mathematician" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mathematician</span></a> and <a href="https://spore.social/tags/physicist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>physicist</span></a>, shown here in my <a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linocut</span></a> portrait with <a href="https://spore.social/tags/diagrams" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>diagrams</span></a> 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.🧵<br>⠀<br><a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>printmaking</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/histsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>histsci</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/WomenInSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomenInSTEM</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/duCh%C3%A2telet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>duChâtelet</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>physics</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/physicist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>physicist</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/SciArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SciArt</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/mathematics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mathematics</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/mastoart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mastoart</span></a></p>
2something<p><span>New account, new introduction!<br><br>I'm Beth. I'm a queer mathematician who loves musical theater, webcomics, teaching math, and my cat. <br><br>Favorite areas of math: Topology, geometry, and combinatorics.<br><br>Favorite musicals: Chess, Into the Woods, Next to Normal, Sunday in the Park With George, Sweeney Todd<br><br>Favorite webcomics: this is long enough to get its own post:<br></span><a href="https://transfem.social/notes/9ius8efgn12cewcz" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://transfem.social/notes/9ius8efgn12cewcz</a><span><br><br></span><a href="https://transfem.social/tags/Introduction" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Introduction</a> <a href="https://transfem.social/tags/Queer" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Queer</a> <a href="https://transfem.social/tags/Mathematician" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mathematician</a> <a href="https://transfem.social/tags/Math" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Math</a> <a href="https://transfem.social/tags/Musicals" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Musicals</a> <a href="https://transfem.social/tags/MusicalTheater" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MusicalTheater</a> <a href="https://transfem.social/tags/MusicalTheatre" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MusicalTheatre</a> <a href="https://transfem.social/tags/Webcomics" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Webcomics</a> <a href="https://transfem.social/tags/Teaching" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Teaching</a> <a href="https://transfem.social/tags/TeachingMath" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TeachingMath</a> <a href="https://transfem.social/tags/Cat" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cat</a> <a href="https://transfem.social/tags/Cats" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cats</a> <a href="https://transfem.social/tags/SillyGoose" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SillyGoose</a> <a href="https://transfem.social/tags/Topology" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Topology</a> <a href="https://transfem.social/tags/Geometry" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Geometry</a> <a href="https://transfem.social/tags/Combinatorics" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Combinatorics</a> <a href="https://transfem.social/tags/Chess" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Chess</a> <a href="https://transfem.social/tags/ChessTheMusical" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChessTheMusical</a> <a href="https://transfem.social/tags/IntoTheWoods" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IntoTheWoods</a> <a href="https://transfem.social/tags/NextToNormal" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NextToNormal</a> <a href="https://transfem.social/tags/SundayInTheParkWithGeorge" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SundayInTheParkWithGeorge</a> <a href="https://transfem.social/tags/SweeneyTodd" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SweeneyTodd</a> <a href="https://transfem.social/tags/PandorasTaleWiki" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PandorasTaleWiki</a> <a href="https://transfem.social/tags/RainverseWiki" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RainverseWiki</a></p>
Ele Willoughby, PhD<p>Bonus <a href="https://spore.social/tags/artAdventCalendar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>artAdventCalendar</span></a>: Happy birthday to <a href="https://spore.social/tags/mathematician" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mathematician</span></a> Virginia Ragsdale (1870-1945). The Ragsdale conjecture, made in her 1906 dissertation, is amongst the earliest &amp; most famous on the <a href="https://spore.social/tags/topology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>topology</span></a> of real &amp; algebraic curves, which stimulated a lot of 20th century research &amp; 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 🧵</p><p><a href="https://spore.social/tags/womeninSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>womeninSTEM</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>printmaking</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/sciart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sciart</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/mathart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mathart</span></a></p>
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