Rowena Ball
@rowena-mathscieng.bsky.social
Professor in mathematical sciences, Indigenous and non-Western mathematics, Origin of life, Cross-disciplinary interests in all STEM, Railways, Country pub lunches
She/her, widowed, with 3 children and 3 grandchildren
She/her, widowed, with 3 children and 3 grandchildren
Er...(Humans back off, peace breaks out, the cassowaries patrol the streets)
November 15, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Er...(Humans back off, peace breaks out, the cassowaries patrol the streets)
🙃
Hi Earth, human here – please don't worry, we are off to oblivion, via armageddon or whatever... but not before we have unleashed self-replicating AI into the universe...
Cheerio!
(evil grin emoji)
Hi Earth, human here – please don't worry, we are off to oblivion, via armageddon or whatever... but not before we have unleashed self-replicating AI into the universe...
Cheerio!
(evil grin emoji)
November 15, 2025 at 9:24 AM
🙃
Hi Earth, human here – please don't worry, we are off to oblivion, via armageddon or whatever... but not before we have unleashed self-replicating AI into the universe...
Cheerio!
(evil grin emoji)
Hi Earth, human here – please don't worry, we are off to oblivion, via armageddon or whatever... but not before we have unleashed self-replicating AI into the universe...
Cheerio!
(evil grin emoji)
"No dinosaur has ever done me any harm. Some of em might have galumphed a bit in the old days, but nowadays cassowaries, emus, goannas, and dear little shinglebacks are really rather cute. Humans, on the other hand, oh lordy..."
November 15, 2025 at 8:58 AM
"No dinosaur has ever done me any harm. Some of em might have galumphed a bit in the old days, but nowadays cassowaries, emus, goannas, and dear little shinglebacks are really rather cute. Humans, on the other hand, oh lordy..."
Reposted by Rowena Ball
Correction: Calculus was first developed in the 15th C by Madhava and the Kerala school in India and published in the Yuktibhāṣā, two centuries before Newton and Liebniz. The chain and timings of the transmission of Kerala calculus to Europe are gradually being fleshed out and verified
#MythBusting
#MythBusting
November 13, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Correction: Calculus was first developed in the 15th C by Madhava and the Kerala school in India and published in the Yuktibhāṣā, two centuries before Newton and Liebniz. The chain and timings of the transmission of Kerala calculus to Europe are gradually being fleshed out and verified
#MythBusting
#MythBusting
Correction: Calculus was first developed in the 15th C by Madhava and the Kerala school in India and published in the Yuktibhāṣā, two centuries before Newton and Liebniz. The chain and timings of the transmission of Kerala calculus to Europe are gradually being fleshed out and verified
#MythBusting
#MythBusting
November 13, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Correction: Calculus was first developed in the 15th C by Madhava and the Kerala school in India and published in the Yuktibhāṣā, two centuries before Newton and Liebniz. The chain and timings of the transmission of Kerala calculus to Europe are gradually being fleshed out and verified
#MythBusting
#MythBusting
Let us abstract the mathematical beauty in this phenomenon. Was it a left-handed or right-handed spiral?
November 12, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Let us abstract the mathematical beauty in this phenomenon. Was it a left-handed or right-handed spiral?
Yet, sometimes one's terrible mobile phone pictures of the moon can yield unexpected beauty
November 11, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Yet, sometimes one's terrible mobile phone pictures of the moon can yield unexpected beauty
Cool! Is the QR code assembled from tiny seeds? Do you scan it to find out what they grow into? Chives, by the look of em.
November 10, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Cool! Is the QR code assembled from tiny seeds? Do you scan it to find out what they grow into? Chives, by the look of em.
Schrödinger was a well-documented pedophile. Remind me again what his view of life and lives was
November 8, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Schrödinger was a well-documented pedophile. Remind me again what his view of life and lives was
Oh thanks, but keep in mind that smoke signals have chiral symmetry. Very important property that was used by the Indigenous signallers. If you send a quote that has the wrong symmetry it might say: 'Waste no time in reading this book. It belongs in the remainder bin'.
November 7, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Oh thanks, but keep in mind that smoke signals have chiral symmetry. Very important property that was used by the Indigenous signallers. If you send a quote that has the wrong symmetry it might say: 'Waste no time in reading this book. It belongs in the remainder bin'.
Very nice! Flows are a decent metaphor that might become true if given the fluctuation, rather than deep, treatment. Smoke telegraphy profoundly shaped the cultural and economic landscape of Australia. Now there's an actual fluctuating information flow for you!
November 7, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Very nice! Flows are a decent metaphor that might become true if given the fluctuation, rather than deep, treatment. Smoke telegraphy profoundly shaped the cultural and economic landscape of Australia. Now there's an actual fluctuating information flow for you!
On the day the book is published I'll send you a smoke telegram. You will have to unroll and decode it, relay it on with perfect fidelity, and send back an acknowledgement.
November 7, 2025 at 8:08 AM
On the day the book is published I'll send you a smoke telegram. You will have to unroll and decode it, relay it on with perfect fidelity, and send back an acknowledgement.