I am a professional mathematical concept disrupter which believes that the study of mathematics is like air or water to our technological society.
Edinburgh, Scotland
Joined August 2014
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Born #OnThisDay in 1642 was one of the greatest and most infuential scientific minds in history, Sir Isaac Newton PRS.
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Merry Christmas and a happy 2020 is almost over to you! RT this to be automatically entered to win one of two @LegoNASAWomen sets! Drawing will be held on Mon., Jan. 4, 2021 at noon Eastern. Must have open DMs so I can contact you if you win!
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Write down one 4, two 3’s, three 2’s, four 1’s and you just got a prime number.
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"There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery" - Enrico Fermi
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Archimedes discovered that if you add the volume of a cone and a sphere, you get the volume of their bounding cylinder. It’s one of the most beautiful results in 3D geometry! math.fit/sphere-volume
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The Moving Patterns Kickstarter is LIVE! #iteachmath #math #movement #dance #creative Here's the link! bit.ly/MPKickstarter
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Mathematicians in ancient Greece discovered that there are just 5 completely regular polyhedra: the Platonic solids. They believed that they each correspond to one of the 4 classical elements, while the Dodecahedron is the shape of the entire universe. math.fit/platonic
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Robert Recorde is credited with introducing the equality symbol in 1557
“To avoid the tedious repetition of these words, ‘is equal to,’ I will set a pair of parallels of one length, because no two things can be more equal"
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Day 12 — #GeometricJuly
So many tan rhombuses in this double-sized dodecagon! I wonder if this is the maximum number of tan rhombuses.
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Interesting phenomenon that occurs when we construct the 4 angle bisectors of any quadrilateral. Why are these 4 points concyclic? 🤔 When are 2 (or more) points concurrent? geogebra.org/m/prspvPVS @geogebra #MTBoS #ITeachMath #math #maths #geometry #proof #MathEd #MathEdTech
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A geometric construction of the series 1 + cosα + cos²α + ...
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Interesting story that we missed last month. theconversation.com/an-inmat…
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Since everything happens on the internet now, @SparksMaths and I are running a couple of online maths puzzle workshops next month!
Pints and Puzzles 8-10pm BST 16th July: pints-and-puzzles.eventbrite…
Puzzle Tea Party 2-4pm BST 18th July: maths-puzzles-tea-party.even…
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Meet Vivienne Malone-Mayes, the fifth African American to earn a PhD in math in the US, the first African American member of the full-time faculty at Baylor University, and the first African American elected to the Executive Committee of the AWM. More at bit.ly/3dCMjRo.
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a slice through a cylinder creates an ellipse. when unrolled, it creates a sine wave
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“Being female; being brown; being interested in physics; being highly intellectual in this particular way. … It took me a very long time to find my tribe. I didn’t feel lost, but I felt alone.” quantamagazine.org/priyamvad…
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To get more points, you have to clear as many rows as possible at once. Can you get the whole 16×16 board? #Factris teaches arithmetic and factors in a fun and incredibly addictive way. Play at mathigon.org/factris
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Fibonacci is a made up name for Leonardo Bonacci of Pisa. The name Fibonacci comes from the Latin "𝒇𝒊lius 𝑩𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒄𝒄𝒊", "the son of Bonacci". His father was Guglielmo Bonaccio.
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Pascal’s triangle has been studied for thousands of years, by mathematicians all around the world. In India, it was known as the “Staircase of Mount Meru”. In Persia it was called the “Khayyam triangle”, and in China it was “Yang Hui’s triangle”. More at math.fit/pascal
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The best maths tutor ever 🐱😉 Also, this is the best homework photo I have received in the past month 😊 #catlover #mathshomework @StDavidsHS
