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🌅Please join us on Bluesky! It's the dawn of a new day.
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Happy #Halloween! Here's a roundup of some of our favourite math pumpkins from the world wide cobweb 🎃👻
ALT Credit: Nathan Shields
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🏅GOOD MORNING AND CONGRATULATIONS to the 2022 #fieldsmedal winners!!! A front-row seat to honour the work of (L-R) Maryna Viazovska, Jaymes Maynard, June Huh & Hugo Duminil-Copin.
What an incredible group of mathematicians 👏👏👏
#DispatchesFromHelsinki
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And now for the one #MetGala2022 fashion round-up you've been waiting for: Your fave celebrities dressed as math textbooks.
We're calling it "The Look and the Book".
First up, Gigi Hadid as Fermi's Thermodynamics (and yes, this is technically physics but let's go with it...)
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Happy #WomeninMathematics Day! ⚡
Today, we remember the leaders who paved the way for future generations and celebrate those who are making waves.
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Inspired by the fine work of @SJDJ, we humbly present to you Timothée Chalamet as mathematics texts, a thread.
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Happy Women in Mathematics Day! We celebrate #onthisday in tribute to Fields Medallist Maryam Mirzakhani🎂
Her pioneering legacy has left a big impact on the math community and continue to inspire young girls to pursue mathematics.
cnn.com/videos/tv/2021/03/19…
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Inspired by @SciencePetr's fantasy biopic casting of Timothée Chalamet as Galois, we've put together a wish list of famous mathematicians and the actors who could play them.
Don't see your faves here? Tell us who you'd like to cast!
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Fields Medal winner Maryam Mirzakhani's legacy will only continue to grow. This weekend @CNN produced a beautiful tribute to her magnificent mind.
cnn.com/videos/tv/2021/03/19…
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Emmy Noether faced immense adversity every step of her life. Despite unimaginable barriers, she became one of the most important mathematicians of all time.
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The intersection of the mathematics community and the Drag Race fandom (a nonzero positive number of people) mourns today as our Queen was eliminated from #CanadasDragRace. Thank you @onlinekyne, for showing the world just how much sparkle math can have! piped.video/KpqjiXnFAVs
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Happy birthday Alan Turing! 💻
The English mathematician famously invented modern computing and cracked the Enigma code, helping the Allies win during the Second World War.
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"Do we need mathematical applications? There's beauty in just knowing how things work. That's sufficient reason for me to study these problems."
- Kristin deVleming
#2023FieldsMedalSymposium
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Happy birthday Alexander Grothendieck, born on this day in 1928! One of the most celebrated mathematicians of the 20th century, he revolutionized algebraic geometry and was awarded the Fields Medal in 1966.
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"The 30-year-old began her cycling career in 2014 after sustaining running injuries that prevented her from continuing her pursuits of triathlon and duathlon..." and still found time to complete her Ph.D in #mathematics.
👏👏Extraordinary achievement!
cyclingnews.com/features/ann…
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A real treat for us who wished we had mind reading superpowers as kids: a peek inside a mathematicians’ 🧠
cc: Gael Yomgne Diebou, Fields-AIMS-Perimeter postdoc
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Fields invites you to a virtual screening of "Secrets of the Surface: The Mathematical Vision of Maryam Mirzakhani", which includes a “Watch Party” on Twitter, and an online panel discussion and Q&A. Details at the link: bit.ly/3fqcBIO
#FilmsWithFields #WomeninSTEM
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"Einstein called her a genius. Yet today, almost nobody knows who she is."
Born on this day in 1882, Emmy Noether, a trailblazing mathematician. Read about her legacy here:
vox.com/2015/3/23/8274777/em…
#mathematics #WomenInSTEM #bornonthisday
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🤩Absolutely full house for the first of Alain Connes' three lectures on noncommutative geometry.
Missed registration? Don't let the #FOMO get you down!
Subscribe to our YouTube channel to be notified when the whole series gets posted: piped.video/FieldsInstitute
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"Mathematics is a community effort. I'm just a representative of my field and I've been very lucky."
- Caucher Birkar (Fields Medal 2018)
#2023FieldsMedalSymposium
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Mathematics lost a great one. Fields honours the legacy and achievements of Dr. Evelyn Boyd Granville.
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"One of the greatest misconceptions about mathematics is that it’s a solitary activity... But in fact, it’s a very social activity. You constantly seek inspiration in discussions and encounters and randomness and chance and so on.”
theguardian.com/science/2015…
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42 was the last remaining number below 100 which could not be expressed as the sum of three cubes... until today. Watch this interview via @numberphile to learn more #mathnews #math piped.video/zyG8Vlw5aAw
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It never gets old... 👻
Happy Halloween from Fields! Wishing you a spooky weekend - we'll see you in November.
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This year’s Fields Medal Symposium honours Maryam Mirzakhani, the first woman to win the Fields Medal. Here at Fields we are dedicated to supporting more women in math like Maryam. For #InternationalWomensDay join the math revolution. Donate at goo.gl/1a6yxA
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Today in Math History: Alan Turing's paper "On computable numbers," introducing the "Turing machine," was published in 1936.
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Congratulations to Fields Medallist Martin Hairer (2014) on winning the prestigious 2021 Breakthrough Prize, “for transformative contributions to the theory of stochastic analysis." 🎉 🎉 Watch his Public Lecture from the 2017 #FieldsMedalSymposium here: piped.video/watch?v=Jz63GkM0…
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Solving a decades-old knot theory problem in less than a week? This is a mathematical mic-drop
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"If you want to get a reasonable good idea, you have to really spend a lot of time thinking patiently and not getting disappointed" Mathematics life advice courtesy of Maryam Mirzakhani #FilmsWithFields
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Math runs on coffee. The evidence is undeniable. Exhibit No. 4569274 pictured below. #FilmsWithFields
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Today in Math History: Emmy Noether received her Ph.D. degree from the University of Erlangen, for a dissertation on algebraic invariants. She went on to become one of the world's greatest mathematicians. #WomeninStem #MathMatters
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The Fields Institute wishes you a peaceful holiday, a warm heart and lots of embarrassing math puns. #Christmas2021
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"I had this rare privilege of being able to pursue in my adult life, what had been my childhood dream."
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You would not believe how many people showed up to learn how to tile their kitchens with harmonic functions. Expect some wild interior design trends soon.
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"algebraic geometry is like your high school algebra classes—understanding relationships between symbolic equations and geometric figures in a plane or higher-dimensional space—turned up a notch" says @evelynjlamb for @sciam bit.ly/2QxkCk9
#mathematics
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Madelaine Petsch as every Springer textbook ever, but specifically Stillwell's The Four Pillars of Geometry.
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James Arthur is considered one of the world's experts on the Langlands Program. He recently retired from teaching at @UofT, giving his final graduate course through the Fields Institute.
We honoured his legacy with a career retrospective: bit.ly/43sPpBM
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Number theorist, Maryna Viazovska, is the 2nd woman to win a Fields Medal, a stat that will hopefully stop becoming noteworthy as more women mathematicians receive rightful recognition for their work.
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Today's #GoogleDoodle honours Stefan Banach, founder of modern functional analysis and original member of the Lwów School of Mathematics.
The (mostly) self-taught 🇵🇱 mathematician became a professor #OnThisDay in 1922 🧑🏫.
google.com/doodles/celebrati…
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“There is no absolute randomness in this universe. There are always clusters of order, and the Ramsey numbers quantify it." Read more about a breakthrough proof that provides new understanding of order and randomness in graphs.
quantamagazine.org/new-math-…
#mathematics #ramseynumbers
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We're pleased to announce that Dr. Christine Suurtamm is the recipient of the 2020 Margaret Sinclair Memorial Award for excellence and innovation in #mathematics #education! bit.ly/2ValRZP #WomenInSTEM
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🍿 TONIGHT! 🍿 Join #FilmsWithFields, a virtual screening of "Secrets of the Surface" to celebrate Maryam Mirzakhani's birthday. Register at the link, hit play at 7pm ET, tweet along with the hashtag, and then pop into the Zoom Q&A panel. bit.ly/3cfhH8R #May12WIM
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Greetings from #totality in Hamilton, ON - the birthplace of our namesake, John Charles Fields.
📸 by Kirsten Vanstone
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📢🏳️🌈There's still time to register for the 3rd annual LGBTQ+Math Day, celebrating mathematicians and scientists in the community worldwide.
Speakers include @TyLKelly, @Monoidal_Olivia, Joseph Nakao, Katrin Wehrheim & more.
Join us online NOVEMBER 18: bit.ly/3haHxCb
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For those still finding their mathematical footing, note that @Princeton's June Huh didn't even think of math that way until his sixth (SIXTH) year of college!
quantamagazine.org/june-huh-…
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Infinite Powers, @stevenstrogatz's portrait of calculus, is a #MathReads must-have! #mathematics bit.ly/363CFEc
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Iranian #mathematician & Prof at @Stanford, Maryam Mirzakhani's research explored hyperbolic geometry, Teichmüller theory & #ergodictheory. Recipient of the #SatterPrize & #BlumenthalAward, she was the first woman to win a #FieldsMedal in 2014 #WomeninSTEM #WomensHistoryMonth
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🤩When media executives get it right. @FryRsquared was an amazing moderator at our 2020 Fields Medal Symposium & we can't wait to see her new series!
hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-…
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An apt metaphor for the risk of #COVID-19 spread in schools: "If you look at the Titanic, the reason it sank is that the compartments below were all connected, which allowed the water to travel very quickly." - Peter Jüni, ON Science Advisory Table Director
#WhatTheNumbersSay
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Can't get enough of one of the most exciting moments of 20th century math history? Here's another great story about Fermat's last theorem and the importance of collaboration.
theconversation.com/proving-…
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Four mathematicians — Jonathan Bowden, Fabio Gironella, Agustin Moreno and Zhengyi Zhou — have uncovered a new type of contact sphere and, with it, an infinite number of new contact manifolds. quantamagazine.org/in-the-wi…
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Emmy Noether faced immense adversity every step of her life. Despite unimaginable barriers, she became one of the most important mathematicians of all time.
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It’s no secret: the 2020 #FieldsMedalSymposium is fast approaching! This year we’re taking the shindig online, which means you can participate from anywhere in the world. It’s free, but be sure to register. What can you expect? A thread 👇🏾
eventbrite.ca/e/public-openi…
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Professor Karen Keskulla Uhlenbeck of @UTAustin is the first woman to win the prestigious #AbelPrize. Her work in geometric analysis & #gaugetheory has shifted the mathematical landscape. An advocate of #WomeninSTEM, Fields extends our congratulations!
bit.ly/2HvwJvd
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Guess who's hanging out with us this afternoon? Hugo Duminil-Copin is literally delivering the first of his three Coxeter Lectures at this very moment downstairs. What are you waiting for? Join us!
bit.ly/3SNmOEH
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🏆Fields is proud to announce that our Director, V. Kumar Murty, will receive the 2023 CMS Jeffery-Williams Prize.
He joins a formidable group of mathematicians who have received this award.
fields.utoronto.ca/news/Kuma…
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The Breakthrough Prize has established a new distinction in honour of Maryam Mirzakhani, the first woman to win the Fields Medal. What a fitting tribute to an iconic intellect! #WomenInSTEM #mathematics bit.ly/32g6Hlx
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Here's your weekend math read, sorted! Bookmark this profile (by the wonderful @evelynjlamb) of Julia Robinson's quest to solve Hilbert's 10th Problem to enjoy during your Saturday morning coffee.bit.ly/2D8bDyX #mathematics #mathreads #womeninSTEM
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Incoming MSRI Director Tatiana Toro, Fields Deputy Director Deirdre Haskell & @NewtonInstitute Director, Ulrike Tillmann form a formidable group of 3 at #ICM2022
#DispatchesFromHelsinki
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What a treat to see Maryam Mirzakhani's beautiful handwriting on her notes. #FilmsWithFields #SecretsoftheSurface
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"Some mathematicians have a talent for drawing beautiful diagrams by hand, but they vanish as soon as the chalkboard is erased. We want to make this expressive power available to anyone."
#mathematics #mathisbeautiful bit.ly/2Boc2Q4
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