Happy birthday to Olga Ladyzhenskaya (1922-2004), a #mathematician who overcame personal tragedy, faced Soviet totalitarianism & the catastrophic political upheaval of the 20th century to make a huge impact on the math, making important contributions to study of partial differential equations (PDEs). She changed the way PDEs are examined & popularized the notion of weak solutions (which satisfy the equations but may not be differentiable).🧵
Happy birthday to Gerardus Mercator (1512-1594) renown Flemish cartographer.
What made Mercator a great #cartographer, was in fact his abilities as a #mathematician -and like those of us scientists who feel compelled also to create art he was wasn’t hindered by his immense ability as an engraver. He produced beautiful world maps (a version of which is depicted in this print), 🧵1/
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#geographer #geography #histstm #sciart #linocut #printmaking #mapart #maps #Mercator
#BlackHistoryMonth is a great time to celebrate #mathematician & #geodesist Gladys West (née Brown 1930-2026). Shown with 3 satellites important to her career + tracks: Seasat, GEOS-3 & a GPS satellite. Her work, using math to precisely model the shape of Earth, laid groundwork for GPS!
Born to sharecropper parents in Virginia, she graduated with a Math BSc in ‘52 then MSc at VSU in ‘55. 🧵
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#printmaking #womenInSTEM #linocut #sciart #histsci #BlackInSTEM #mastoart
For the #printerSolstice2526 prompt volume: my #linocut of autodidact #mathematician Alicia Boole Stott (1860-1940) with diagrams of cross-sections of 4D polytopes from her publications.
Alicia came to math honestly. Her father Prof George Boole developed Boolean logic, but died when she was 4. Her mother Mary Everest Boole was an autodidact mathematician & innovative math educator, who taught kids math 🧵
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#mastoArt #histsci #sciart #mathArt #mathematics #womenInSTEM
Coxeter, who became a professor at the University of Toronto and is recognized as one of the greatest geometers of the 20th century, credited her insights and wrote about the life of his inspiring friend, whom he, like Taylor, knew as Aunt Alice.
#linocut #womenInSTEM #mathematician #AliciaBooleStott #sciart 🧵4/4
Happy birthday to Marjorie Rice (née Jeuck, 1923–2017) who discovered 4 new pentagonal tilings of the Euclidian plane!
The San Diego mother of 5 (6th died in infancy) completed half a correspondence art course after high school & had no training as a #mathematician but was always interested in #math & art. She began to follow SciAm writer/amateur mathematician Martin Gardner’s column, … 🧵
Happy birthday to #mathematician Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (13 February 1805 – 5 May 1859)! My lino block print illustrates the famous mathematical tool known as the pigeonhole principle, which states that if n items are put into m containers, with n > m, then at least one container must contain more than one item. You can imagine a bunch, call it m, pigeonholes and n pigeons, where n > m; 🧵
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#linocut #printmaking #sciart #mathart #mastoArt #math #histsci
#OnThisDay Birth Anniversary of #English #Writer Charles Dickens (1812) - regarded by many as the greatest #Novelist of the Victorian era.
Birth Anniversary of #English #Mathematician G. H. Hardy (1877) - mentor of the Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan.
Happy Birthday Tawakkol Karman (1979) - co-recipient of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize, becoming the first Yemeni, the first Arab woman to win a #NobelPrize.
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