However impressive Jim Simons’s financial and philanthropic accomplishments were, you need to realize his mathematical accomplishments dwarfed them all.

It’s a funny thing to say about hummingbirds, but these babies are getting so big they barely fit in the nest. #HappyMothersDay mommy hummingbird — you’re doing a great job!

I’m quite sure I had a #HotWheels car like this when I was a kid!

Happy International Women in Mathematics Day!

Maryam Mirzakhani won the Fields Medal in 2014 for her important contributions to geometry and dynamical systems. May 12 was Mirzakhani’s birthday, and now it is a day to celebrate all women in the mathematical sciences.
#WomenInMath

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Our (second) Mathematician of the Day #MOTD2 is Maryam Mirzakhani an Iranian mathematician who worked in America. She was the first woman to be awarded a Fields Medal (2014). She worked in the geometry of Riemann surfaces.

mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Mi…

Congratulations to Colin Camerer ( Colin Camerer ) for winning the first Simon Rottenberg award for his contributions in economics by means of sports data.
The shakehand in the trophy represents the shakehand between sports and economics.

Having not had enough interactions w/police when the pro-Palestinian encampment UC San Diego was dismantled Monday, HCWforPalestine marched through one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in La Jolla (presumably bc the Chancellor’s house is there) this afternoon.

The littlest dinosaur:

Exactly

.Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) removed the pro-Palestine encampment there. Pres. Kornbluth explains: orgchart.mit.edu/letters/action…
'This situation is fundamentally different. Why? Because this is not one group in conflict w/the administration. It is two groups in conflict, in part through us, w/each other.'

.Thomas Sumner: Simons Foundation Co-Founder, Mathematician and Investor Jim Simons Dies at 86 simonsfoundation.org/2024/05/10/sim…
'He was determined to make a meaningful difference in the level of support that mathematics and basic sciences received in the US'

Hey amina❤️‍🔥⚔️, thanks for creating a reading list.

Hey, Stanford Medicine, you need to send your professor back to school. I’m sure someone in the Math or Statistics Dept @Stanford could explain elementary probability to Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D.. (I’d volunteer my 15yo daughter, but she’s here in San Diego.)

1/3 For those interested in the Calif. Math Framework, I talked to Brian Conrad on my podcast. No mention of Jo Boaler. This 'tirade of harassment' business is nonsense! He is meticulous & thorough. He dedicated hundreds of hours of his time to read through a dense document…

The hardball response would be to remove the Ethnic Studies Department's courses from the list of courses approved to satisfy UC San Diego's #DEI graduation requirement: senate.ucsd.edu/media/513521/d…
... or remove that requirement entirely.

.Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, 'We celebrate the solidarity evinced by student activists of the 1960s, who left the comfort of their campuses to travel to Mississippi to register people to vote.'
newyorker.com/news/essay/the…
About 50% Freedom Summer volunteers were Jewish. jwa.org/teach/livingth…

Jonathan Chait This was my best crack at it:

“Promoting ivermectin makes a lot more sense in hindsight when you have a literal brain worm/parasite.”

Today mommy hummingbird is much mellower … or perhaps temporarily tired out from gathering food for her babies:

.Data Colada warns Francesca Gino,“We certainly want the case to be dismissed, but were it to go to discovery, it is possible we would discover things that merit an additional blog post.”

Last September, flying into Montenegro, my plane was struck by lightning. But this is not that story. This is the story of the worst customer service I have ever suffered, eight months of frustration and still going. Are you listening, Cigna Healthcare Cigna Healthcarequestions?