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Ele Willoughby, PhD

Happy birthday to French mathematician, physicist and philosopher Marie-Sophie Germain (1776 – 1831), known as Sophie. She taught herself mathematics using books in her father’s library and by corresponding with leading mathematicians of her day, including Lagrange, Legendre and Gauss, initially using the pseudonym Monsieur LeBlanc. 🧵1/n
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#linocut #printmaking #sciart #mathart #SophieGermain #ChladniFigures #mathematician #Fermat #womenInSTEM #physicist

Linocut of Sophie Germain (a young woman in with a collar with bow, under a dark dress, with a ribbon tied around her neck, long hair with centre part, half tied up with a ribbon in her hair). She is printed in dark blue with her own words about Fermat's Last Theorem in her own script carved into her hair and dress). Behind her in lavender is a grid of Chladni figures.
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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, rushing to devour the magazine before her 🧵

My linocut portrait of Marjorie Rice with 4 groupings of her 4 pentagonal tiling patterns in pale orange, pink, purple and lime. Her shirt is a pattern of orange butterflies and white daisies on a dark green background. The pattern is based on the orange pentagonal tiling. She is shown in green with a background of yellow at her neckline to lime going up with lines and details overprinted in dark green. She is smiling at the viewer.
#womenInSTEM#printmaking#mathematics
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Happy birthday to #mathematician Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (1805 –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; to fit the pigeons in the pigeonholes, 🧵

My linocut print of the Pigeonhole Principle shows Dirichlet in blue, a bearded man with heavy brow, wearing a suit with arms crossed, looking a bit cross. Behind him is a bank of pigeonholes in a gradient of blue to gold. Each one contains one or two pigeons in black on grey with turquoise and violet markings. The pigeonholes may extend infinitely in all directions - the shelves appear to go on beyond the 4 x 7 array of pigeonholes shown.
#linocut#printmaking#sciart
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It’s #BlackHistoryMonth so it’s a good time to celebrate the extraordinary mathematician and NASA scientist Katherine Johnson (née Coleman; August 26, 1918 – February 24, 2020). One of the first Black women employed as a NASA scientist (and its predecessor NACA), she was known for her mastery of complex manual calculations of orbital mechanics and played a pivotal role in the success of 🧵

My linocut portrait of Katherine Johnson in a upward gradient of raspberry to purple ink (she is a Black woman in a shirt dress, with pearls, glasses and a watch, holding a pencil, facing left with her arms out on an unseen table like she was writing, looking at the viewer over her right shoulder). Behind her on the right is the Project Mercury rocket with capsule and launch trajectory in black. Beside her on right is the Earth in blue with two images of the Moon in silver above to show the trajectory for the Apollo Lunar Module.
#linocut#printmaking#sciart
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Happy birthday to Russian #mathematician & writer Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevski (1850-1891). Her contributions to analysis, differential equations & mechanics include Cauchy-Kovalevski theorem & the famed Kovalevski top. She was 1st woman appointed to full prof in N Europe or to serve as editor of a major sci journal. She is also remembered for her contributions to Russian literature. All of this despite living when women were still barred from attending 🧵

My linocut portrait of Sofia Kovalevski in burgundy surrounded by Saturn and a diagram about the rotation of irregular solids in gold ink. She’s wearing a dress with puffed sleeves over a floral embroidered blouse. Her hair is up, her arms are folded in front of her and she looks thoughtfully to the side.
#sciart#printmaking#WomenInSTEM
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Happy birthday to #mathematician & #astronomer Nicole-Reine Lepaute (1723-1788)! My #linocut celebrates her calculated path of the solar eclipse of 1764. She also worked with Alexis Clairaut & Jérôme Lalande to precisely calculate the date of return of Halley’s Comet solving the notorious 3-body by hand (including the gravitational pull of Jupiter & Saturn on orbit). They worked in parallel, calculating for 6 months straight barely stopping🧵

My linocut print of mathematician & astronomer Nicole-Reine Lepaute (1723-1788) in a vertical gradient (bottom to top) of bright pink to lavender on white paper. She wears a wig and gown and the portrait is from the chest to head. Her 12 diagrams of the phases of the annular the solar eclipse of 1764 as viewed from Paris appear across her shoulders. Behind her head in green is her map of the path of the eclipse across Europe.
#printmaking#womeninSTEM#histsci
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A career civil servant in Nanyang, Heng was also an #astronomer, #mathematician, #seismologist, hydraulic engineer, #inventor, geographer, cartographer, ethnographer, artist, #poet, philosopher, politician & literary scholar. He was a bit of a controversial figure politically, sparing over calendar reform & with rivals amongst the palace eunuchs. But both his poetry & famous inventions are still remembered. He also improved the Chinese approximation for pi & 🧵2/n

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She was the daughter of a famous #mathematician, Theon Alexandricus (ca. 335–405), with whom she worked & published edited versions of Classical texts in mathematics. She also pursued her education in Athens & Italy before returning to Alexandria.⠀
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It is difficult to precisely specify her own contributions to math, since many documents have been lost (the Library of Alexandria 🧵2/n

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Happy birthday to #mathematician & #polymath, Mary Fairfax Somerville (1780-1872). As a young widow she made a name for herself when she won a silver medal in 1811 from the Military College at Marlow math journal. Wallace suggested she read Laplace & finding she understood it as well as her tutor her confidence increased, & she expanded her studies to #astronomy, chemistry, #geography, microscopy, electricity & magnetism. 🧵
#printmaking #womeninstemm #linocut #sciart #MastoArt

My linocut portrait of Mary Somerville in a dress with lace collar and fur trim, surrounded by math, physics and astronomy diagrams from her publications, in a gradient of turquoise at the bottom to violet at the top.
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Bonus #ArtAdventCalendar day 17 Happy birthday to Gabrielle Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Marquise du Châtelet (1706-1749), a natural philosopher, #mathematician and #physicist, shown here in my #linocut portrait with #diagrams from her ‘Principes Mathématiques de la Philosophie Naturelle’, a two-volume translation and commentary of Newton’s ‘Principia’, published in 1759 in French in Paris.🧵
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#printmaking #histsci #WomenInSTEM #duChâtelet #physics #physicist #SciArt #mathematics #mastoart

My linocut portrait of Émilie du Châtelet in a peach and blue dress with ribbons holding a compass on an open manuscript with a diagram. There’s a pile of books in font of her in blue. Behind her are math and physics diagrams in pink from her publications.
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New account, new introduction!

I'm Beth. I'm a queer mathematician who loves musical theater, webcomics, teaching math, and my cat.

Favorite areas of math: Topology, geometry, and combinatorics.

Favorite musicals: Chess, Into the Woods, Next to Normal, Sunday in the Park With George, Sweeney Todd

Favorite webcomics: this is long enough to get its own post:
https://transfem.social/notes/9ius8efgn12cewcz

#Introduction #Queer #Mathematician #Math #Musicals #MusicalTheater #MusicalTheatre #Webcomics #Teaching #TeachingMath #Cat #Cats #SillyGoose #Topology #Geometry #Combinatorics #Chess #ChessTheMusical #IntoTheWoods #NextToNormal #SundayInTheParkWithGeorge #SweeneyTodd #PandorasTaleWiki

TransFem Space@183231bcbThis is a selection of my favorite #WebComics. They are in alphabetical order, NOT order of preference. Alice and the Nightmare https://www.aliceandthenightmare.com/ #AliceAndTheNightmare Castoff https://castoff-comic.com/ https://tapas.io/series/Castoff https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/castoff/list?title_no=50984 #Castoff Cosmic Fish https://cosmicfishes.com/ #CosmicFish Dumbing of Age https://www.dumbingofage.com/ #DumbingOfAge Heartless https://heartless-comic.com/ #heartless Heroes of Thantopolis https://www.heroesofthantopolis.com/ #HeroesOfThantopolis Inhibit by @evegwood@mastodon.social https://inhibitcomic.com/ https://tapas.io/series/Inhibit/info https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/inhibit/list?title_no=40462 #Inhibit Kiwi Blitz https://www.kiwiblitz.com/ #KiwiBlitz Lefty Cartoons https://leftycartoons.com/ #LeftyCartoons Lies Within https://www.lieswithincomic.com/ #LiesWithin Monster Lands https://monster-lands.com/ #MonsterLands Namesake https://www.namesakecomic.com/ #Namesake Never Heroes https://www.neverheroescomic.com/ #NeverHeroes Never Satisfied https://www.neversatisfiedcomic.com/ #NeverSatisfied Nix of Nothing by @MLeeLunsford@mastodon.social https://www.nixofnothing.com/ #NixOfNothing No End https://noendcomic.com https://tapas.io/series/No-End/info https://www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/no-end/list?title_no=909579 #NoEnd Novae https://www.novaecomic.com/ https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/novae/list?title_no=106507 #Novae Pandora's Tale by @comicsbyxan https://pandorastale.com/ https://tapas.io/series/Pandoras-Tale https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/pandoras-tale/list?title_no=287377 #PandorasTale Pathways: Chronicles of Tuvana http://pathways.elainetipping.com/ https://tapas.io/series/Pathways-Chronicles-of-Tuvana https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/pathways-chronicles-of-tuvana/list?title_no=128848 #PathwaysChroniclesOfTuvana Radio Silence http://www.radiosilencecomic.com/ https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/radio-silence/list?title_no=35242 #RadioSilence Rain by @LynnSenpai@retro.pizza https://rain.thecomicseries.com/ #rain Recoil https://recoil.one/ https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/recoil/list?title_no=256833 #recoil Saints' Quarter https://saintsquarter.com/ https://tapas.io/series/SaintsQuarter https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/saintsquarter/list?title_no=65944 #SaintsQuarter Sister Claire https://www.sisterclaire.com/ #SisterClaire Skyvein https://www.skyveincomic.com/ https://tapas.io/series/skyvein https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/skyvein/list?title_no=651351&webtoon-platform-redirect=true #skyvein Sleepless Domain https://www.sleeplessdomain.com/ #SleeplessDomain Slightly Damned https://www.sdamned.com/ #SlightlyDamned Speak of the Devil by @MLeeLunsford@mastodon.social https://www.speakdevil.com/ #SpeakOfTheDevil StarHammer https://www.starhammercomic.com/ #StarHammer Suihira: The City of Water http://suihira.com/ https://tapas.io/series/Suihira https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/suihira-the-city-of-water/list?title_no=39385 #suihira Supernormal Step by @MLeeLunsford@mastodon.social https://www.supernormalstep.com/ #SuperNormalStep Tamberlane https://www.tamberlanecomic.com/ https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/tamberlane/list?title_no=372674 #tamberlane The End http://www.endcomic.com/ #TheEnd The Order of the Stick https://www.giantitp.com/ #TheOrderOfTheStick The Property of Hate https://jolleycomics.com/TPoH/The_Hook/1 #ThePropertyOfHate The Psions https://tapas.io/series/The-Psions #ThePsions The Roommate From Hell http://enchantedpencil.com/roomie/ https://tapas.io/series/The-Roommate-From-Hell https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/the-roommate-from-hell/list?title_no=206046 #TheRoommateFromHell The Sanity Circus https://www.sanitycircus.com/ #TheSanityCircus #SanityCircus This Is Not Fiction https://www.thisisnotfiction.com #ThisIsNotFiction Tigress Queen https://www.tigressqueen.com/ #TigressQueen Widdershins https://widdershinscomic.com/ #widdershins
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Bonus #artAdventCalendar: Happy birthday to #mathematician Virginia Ragsdale (1870-1945). The Ragsdale conjecture, made in her 1906 dissertation, is amongst the earliest & most famous on the #topology of real & algebraic curves, which stimulated a lot of 20th century research & was not disproved until ‘79. A correct upper bound has yet to be found. In her dissertation she tackles the 16th of David Hilbert’s famous 23 unsolved problems in mathematics 🧵

My linocut print of mathematician Virginia Ragsdale in lavender with 4 of her topological diagrams from her thesis in pale green
#womeninSTEM#printmaking#sciart
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Bonus #artAdventCalendar: Happy birthday to #mathematician & #computerscientist US Navy rear admiral Grace Hopper (1906-1992) who popularized the revolutionary idea of developing machine-independent programming languages based on English.

She began teaching at Vassar in 31 & got PhD (Yale) in 34. She found marriage & teaching less fulfilling & tried to enlist in the Navy, but was rejected then got a special exemption to volunteer for 🧵1/n

My linocut print of a young Grace Hopper in uniform in dark navy blue with Mark I computer behind here in dark green and grey and the famous moth in dark gold.
#printmaking#womenInSTEM#histsci
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Day 6 #ArtAdventCalendar: #linocut of French #mathematician & #physicist Joseph Fourier (1768-1830) remembered for his work on Fourier series, Fourier transforms, Fourier’s law of conduction, Fourier analysis & harmonic analysis & their use to solve heat transfer problems & credited with proposing the greenhouse effect as early as 1824.

Being a commoner he could not seek a commission in the scientific corps of the army but took a military lectureship in #math.🧵

My linocut print on 11”x14” white washi paper had one large section of a circle and several varied smaller overlapping circles in tints and shades of pale orange to pale golden yellow-orange. Fourier is printed in blue ink on top of these orange circles and dressed in 18th century garb. A red sinusoidal function is printed on top such that his head finds within a crest and the throughs to either side frame him. There’s are smaller sinusoids in green, pale blue and yellow on either side of his neck. The sum of these functions frames him in a purple line.
#printmaking#sciart#histsci
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For the #Spacetober prompt lift-off: it’s my portrait of #mathematician and NASA scientist Katherine Johnson (née Coleman; 1918-2020). One of the first Black women employed as a NASA scientist (and its predecessor NACA), she was known for her mastery of complex manual calculations of orbital mechanics and played a pivotal role in the success of the US crewed spaceflights from the beginning. 🧵1/n

My linocut portrait of Katherine Johnson in a upward gradient of raspberry to purple ink (she is a Black woman in a shirt dress, with pearls, glasses and a watch, holding a pencil, facing left with her arms out on an unseen table like she was writing, looking at the viewer over her right shoulder). Behind her on the right is the Project Mercury rocket with capsule and launch trajectory in black. Beside her on right is the Earth in blue with two images of the Moon in silver above to show the trajectory for the Apollo Lunar Module.
#mathematics#sciart#linocut
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