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After the math pope, we have a math president
From the Wiki page of Nicușor Dan, the new president of Romania:
He won first prizes in the International Mathematical Olympiads in 1987 and 1988 with perfect scores.[3] Dan moved to Bucharest at the age of 18 and began studying mathematics at the University of Bucharest.[4] In 1992, he moved to France to continue studying mathematics: he followed the courses of the École Normale Supérieure, one of the most prestigious French grandes écoles, where he gained a master's degree. In 1998 Dan completed a PhD in mathematics at Paris 13 University, with thesis "Courants de Green et prolongement méromorphe" written under the direction of Christophe Soulé and Daniel Barsky [de].[5][6]
Dan's 1988 gold medal also means he was one of eleven contestants to get full marks on the infamous Problem 6, a question so difficult that nobody on the IMO problem committee could solve it.
His personal website lists his primary area of research as Arakelov geometry, a method of studying Diophantine equations from a geometric point of view.
His thesis, in the same field.
His arXiv.
I'd like to give a few examples.
🧪The man known as the father of chemistry (or alchemy, our teacher said both are used for him), Jabir ibn Hayyan. He wrote a book named Kitab al-Kimya, "kimya" means chemistry, and the word chemistry originated from that as well. He invented aqua regia, he had the first chemistry lab, discovered the methods of refining and crystallizing nitric acid, hydrogen chloride and sulfuric acid, and discovered diethyl ether, citric acid, acetic acid and tartaric acid. He developed the "retort" and literally introduced the concept of "base" to chemistry.
📐The father/ founder of algebra, Al-Khwarizmi. He wrote a book called Al-Jabr and the word "algebra" comes from "jabr". He presented the first systematic solution of linear and quadratic equations. One of his achievements in algebra was his demonstration of how to solve quadratic equations by completing the square, for which he provided geometric justifications. He introduced the methods of "reduction" and "balancing". The word "algorithm" literally comes from his name. He also produced the first table of tangents.
📐Biruni, who proposed that the radius be accepted as a unit in trigonometric functions and added secant, cosecant and cotangent functions to it. He made many contributions to astronomy that are too detailed for me to write here because this is long enough already, but for medicine, he managed to make a woman give birth by C section. He wrote Kitabu's Saydane which describes the benefits of around 3000 plants and how they are used.
🩺The father of early polymeric medicine, Ibn Sina. His books, The Law of Medicine and The Book of Healing were taught as the basic works in medical science in various European universities until the mid-17th century. He discovered that the eye was made up of six sections and that the retina was important for vision, performed cataract surgery. He performed kidney surgery, diagnosed diabetes by analyzing urine, identified tumors, and worked on diseases such as facial paralysis, ulcers, and jaundice. He used "anesthesia" in surgeries, invented instruments such as forceps and scalpels to remove catheters and tumors. He was the first physician in history to mention the existence of microbes, at a time when there was no microscope. He made contributions to so many fields: astronomy, physics, chemistry, psychology (he suggested treating patients with music).
🩺Al-Zahrawi wrote Kitab al-Tasrif, a thirty-volume encyclopedia of medical practices. The surgery chapter of this work became the standard textbook in Europe for the next five hundred years. He pioneered the use of catgut for internal stitches, and his surgical instruments are still used today to treat people. He did so much work in surgery that I can't write them all here. The first clinical description of an operative procedure for hydrocephalus was given by him, he clearly described the evacuation of superficial intracranial fluid in hydrocephalic children. He was also the first physician to identify the hereditary nature of haemophilia and describe an abdominal pregnancy, a subtype of ectopic pregnancy that in those days was a fatal affliction, and was first to discover the root cause of paralysis.
✈️Abbas ibn Firnas devised a means of manufacturing colorless glass, invented various planispheres, made corrective lenses, devised an apparatus consisting of a chain of objects that could be used to simulate the motions of the planets and stars, designed a water clock, and a prototype for a kind of metronome. He also attempted to FLY, and he did fly a respectable distance but forgot to add a tail to his wings and didn't stick the landing.
Women also became scholars in the Islamic society. An example would be Maryam al-Ijliyya, who was an astronomer and an astrolabe maker, who measured the altitude of celestial bodies with the astrolabes she made. Another example would be Fatima al-Fihri, who founded the oldest university in the world, the University of Qarawiyyin.
Baghdad was the dream place anyone in academia now would want to go, it was a peaceful place of inclusivity and research. So many scholars advanced so many fields of study. Ibn al-Haytham invented camera obscura (and pinhole camera), Ibn al-Nafis was the first to describe the pulmonary circulation of blood, father of robotics Ismail al-Jazari invented the elephant clock and his list of contributions to engineering are so long that I can't write them here...
These are just a few examples, of course. I hope this encourages people to do research on this topic more. I even added some emojis to make this more fun to read.💁🏻♀️
was talking to my mom about how white people ignore the contributions of poc to academia and I found myself saying the words "I bet those idiots think Louis Pasteur was the first to discover germ theory"
which admittedly sounded pretentious as fuck but I'm just so angry that so few people know about the academic advancements during the golden age of Islam.
Islamic doctors were washing their hands and equipment when Europeans were still shoving dirty ass hands into bullet wounds. ancient Indians were describing tiny organisms worsening illness that could travel from person to person before Greece and Rome even started theorizing that some illnesses could be transmitted
also, not related to germ theory, but during the golden age of Islam, they developed an early version of surgery on the cornea. as in the fucking eye. and they were successful
and what have white people contributed exactly?
please go research the golden age of Islamic academia. so many of us wouldn't be alive today if not for their discoveries
people ask sometimes how I can be proud to be Muslim. this is just one of many reasons
some sources to get you started:
but keep in mind, it wasn't just science and medicine! we contributed to literature and philosophy and mathematics and political theory and more!
maybe show us some damn respect
today in philosophy class
i love when philosophers and mathematicians argue ❤️❤️
Trigonometry is the worst thing that has ever happened to me in my life
The first teacher.
73 to 967 hours awake, milage may vary obviously for the d1000 roll to see how long you will be staying awake for in real life, from Twitter (x) This is the d1000 roll I keep talking outloud about you hackers when you have to roll to see how long you are going to be awake for in real life 😉
I posted about how to use math to use other die, ie d20, that's on my YouTube channel here
http://youtube.com/post/UgkxElUtEEBjRhqBX8pA3esSG7ZOGSx-9Ln1?si=FsT84H1s3YmBT4YO
The hackers Have some live stream of constantly hacking me or whatever, I dunno, point is that in there is the d1k 3d die shape. Personally I said out loud, having intersecting multi-sided elongated pyramids form to a center that upon resting create a clear 360 degree field of view Number that is the body of the die. Basically, a bunch of spikes, the right way to create a outline in the clear, translucent, & opaque materials that puzzle piece together to form a rough 3d geometric shape that has to lay in-between a few points to form the needed Intersection points for the number to be seen. Mostly from the sides. But the top as well.
Here's a post about this picture that is involved in #hackers & me talking outloud to them about how long they are going to be awake for in real life but also how to make a real d1000, yes a d1k
All I know is that it seems to line up with actually happening consistently for the last 15+ years.... & You agreed i Have people hacking & watching me. Because realistically, we are in a police state at all times & are always sending compression data of our microphone & more as the binary that is used for the data going on for our apps to reach the server (basically it's just interpreted to be the text for the App but the big data hoarding server actually gains a whole hell of a lot more, even with small pings & back & forths for where we are & what we did on it. Same for our operating systems, that's what the leakers stating they are watching us (leaving meta & more) more than we know were talking about
Personally I said out loud, having intersecting multi-sided elongated pyramids form to a center that upon resting create a clear 360 degree field of view Number that is the body of the die Basically, a bunch of spikes, the right way to create a outline in the clear, translucent, & opaque materials that puzzle piece together to form a rough 3d geometric shape that has to lay in-between a few points to form the needed Intersection points for the number to be seen. Mostly from the sides. But the top as well. #dnd #d1000 #fbi whatever
Here's the reddit post https://www.reddit.com/r/XenonrealityHub/s/eKTsVet2ld
About it.
How about this, x is an imaginary number in which it can be extrapolated given the number of specific numbers that repeat (I.e. there are 5, 3's so far) in a pattern that can become predictive of its prime nature & or it's given non-imaginary nature.
This repeats for all given irrational numbers as well until infinity.
This is used by me for getting accurate numbers for fluid dynamics & influence values in temporal dimensions with given dirivitive starts that are easily understood to only can have been a few given possibilities that can be broken out & made exactly P value.
A simple & easy video that's brand new & you can watch now. Because you are smart & like cool science stuff.