Dan Mathews
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Dan Mathews
@danvmathews.bsky.social
Mathematician. Etc.
"In the mixture of buffoonery and malice that lies behind this released dataset of “woke Marxist science”, malice seems to be more preponderant than stupidity."
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Fascism, the War on Complexity, and the End of Science
On February 11, 2025, the current US government published a website of the US Senate Commerce Committee (Chairman Ted Cruz) announcing the results of an
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March 12, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Reposted by Dan Mathews
Amazing - I love that humans do maths and especially solving a problem set by Descartes 🧪
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Mathematicians solve 380-year-old problem inspired by Descartes
A long-standing geometric mystery dating back to the 17th century has finally been solved by Monash University mathematicians, shedding new light on an equation first written by philosopher and mathem...
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March 10, 2025 at 11:08 PM
In 1643, Descartes gave an equation relating the curvatures of 4 mutually externally tangent circles, 3 around a central circle.

But now, 380 years later, we can do more!

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Spinors and the Descartes circle theorem
The classic Descartes circle theorem relates the curvatures of four mutually externally tangent circles, three “petal” circles around the exterior of …
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February 28, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Hello, promise of brave new world unfurled beneath blue sky.
February 11, 2025 at 10:19 AM