I like celebrating my academic pals achievements. Neuroscientists when they make new brain maps, STS people when they problematize a new ideology, and mathematicians when they discover a new humongous number
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jonny (good kind)replied to jonny (good kind) last edited by
"Mysticism, which was their venue" is such a whild understatement of Pythagorean musi-cosmological cults
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jonny (good kind)replied to jonny (good kind) last edited by
I dont read Italian but apparently all the number tables midway through this are just like him dividing a humongous number by hand to prove that it is prime/a perfect number and that was the best we could do for 200 years - and apparently he was also wrong about one of the numbers.
https://matematicaitaliana.sns.it/media/volumi/69/Trattato%20de'%20numeri%20perfetti_bw_.pdf -
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All the histories I am finding are telling me how but not telling me why they are discovering larger and larger numbers. Doing your cosmological duty to the deities of harmony and cyclicity? Makes perfect sense. Making better encryption? Also reasonable. But there is a big middle chunk where people seem to be doing it just to do it and there's got to be more to it than that
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jonny (good kind)replied to jonny (good kind) last edited by
Has someone made a thing to convert mathematical notation to code, that would be great, because I can read code but when im looking at a big pile of Greek symbols my eyes just sorta glaze over unless my job depends on it
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Scott Williams 🐧replied to jonny (good kind) last edited by
@jonny The biggest thing I can think of for this is Tex.
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@vwbusguy
Ya im aware of TeX, like dear universe take TeX math and convert it to a program plz and thank u -
Scott Williams 🐧replied to jonny (good kind) last edited by [email protected]
@jonny Not sure if this is what you're looking for or not, but pandoc is how I normally convert Tex to/from other stuff.
Unless you mean converting to python or javascript? There's Lua scripting in pandoc, so there is a chance.
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@vwbusguy
sigh if only pandoc had a TeX math to python converter, then we would truly be living in the future -
Scott Williams 🐧replied to Scott Williams 🐧 last edited by
@jonny The rabbit hole led me here:
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Scott Williams 🐧replied to jonny (good kind) last edited by [email protected]
@jonny Pretty sure that has to exist, especially given how prevalent numpy and Jupyter notebooks are for math.
https://github.com/phfaist/pylatexenc/
I wonder how far that and eval() might get you.
