“Profound study of nature is the most fertile source of mathematical discoveries.”
- Joseph Fourier, The Analytical Theory of Heat (1822).
- Joseph Fourier, The Analytical Theory of Heat (1822).
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Divide 1 by 998001… and the decimal starts counting: 000, 001, 002… all the way to 999. Except one number never shows up - the number is 998.
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"Probably 80% of the time you're completely stuck." - Ashoke Sen
The other 20% reshaped physics. Prof. Sen has been awarded the 2026 Oskar Klein Medal, the first Indian physicist to receive it, for his work on S-duality, black-hole entropy and string field theory.
The other 20% reshaped physics. Prof. Sen has been awarded the 2026 Oskar Klein Medal, the first Indian physicist to receive it, for his work on S-duality, black-hole entropy and string field theory.
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The Math Flow retweeted
“Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open before our eyes… It is written in the language of mathematics.”
- Galileo Galilei
- Galileo Galilei
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@PhysInHistory One of the most beautiful mathematical expressions for a reason:
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“Those laws are within the grasp of the human mind; God wanted us to recognize them by creating us after his own image so that we could share in his own thoughts.”
- Johannes Kepler
- Johannes Kepler
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The extraordinary legacy of the Bernoulli family.
The Bernoulli family was a remarkable dynasty of Swiss mathematicians and physicists who made significant contributions to various fields of science in the 17th and 18th centuries. The family produced 8 prominent academics, most notably Jacob, Johann, and Daniel Bernoulli, who of calculus, differential equations, probability theory, and fluid mechanics.
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A coffee cup and a donut are the same object, topologically.
Stretch and bend, but never tear or glue. Each has exactly one hole, so one deforms continuously into the other. They are homeomorphic.
Stretch and bend, but never tear or glue. Each has exactly one hole, so one deforms continuously into the other. They are homeomorphic.
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