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Historian of science, secrecy, and nuclear weapons. Professor of STS at @FollowStevens. UC Berkeley alum with a Harvard PhD. NUKEMAP creator. Coder and web dev.

Hoboken, NJ / NYC
blog.nuclearsecrecy.com
Joined September 2011

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    1. Michael J. Barany‏ @MBarany Mar 26
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      Michael J. Barany Retweeted American Mathematical Society

      This is the kind of claim one can only make because of how successfully current math people have erased or forgotten all the *weird* stuff people were doing in math in the past.https://twitter.com/amermathsoc/status/1110534246001721346 …

      Michael J. Barany added,

      American Mathematical Society @amermathsoc
      "Math and music seem to age better than some other aspects of human culture." Hear mathematician & violinist Dr. Lillian Pierce @DukeU at #2019NMF. FREE! May 4 in Washington DC at 11:30 and 3:15. AMS is pleased to support this public talk. https://www.nationalmathfestival.org/event/math-music-history/ … #MathandMusic pic.twitter.com/X76KXfV0Ne
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    2. Daniel Litt‏ @littmath Mar 26
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      What weird math stuff do you have in mind?

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    3. Michael J. Barany‏ @MBarany Mar 26
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      Replying to @littmath

      Josipa Petrunic's 2009 dissertation gives a really neat account of how quaternions looked before being fully assimilated into linear algebra, e.g. https://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/25078 …

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    4. Michael J. Barany‏ @MBarany Mar 26
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      Another point in mind, once you get past some superficial shorthands and equivalencies, have you ever *really* tried to understand fluxions and fluents?

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    5. Michael J. Barany‏ @MBarany Mar 26
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      Replying to @MBarany @littmath

      There's a reason Berkeley could so easily dismiss that stuff as 'ghosts of departed quantities.' Downright spooky.

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      Alex Wellerstein‏Verified account @wellerstein Mar 26
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      Just as an aside, Wikipedia's wording on Berkeley's criticism of fluxions is pretty funny: "Bishop George Berkeley, a prominent philosopher of the time, slammed Newton's fluxions in his essay The Analyst, published in 1734." — I love the use of the term "slammed" in this context

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        1. Michael J. Barany‏ @MBarany Mar 26
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          wow, that's priceless! Hot take: fluxions just ghosts.

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