Academic Footnotes

[Sir Creep 7,072]

46 minutes ago, Whitehouse said:

Mathematics Professor Emeritus of Oxford's Magdalen College Brian Bellhouse failed to predict the trajectory of a herd of cows.

Best part of being trampled by cows (see Bovine Attacks) is that when they find your body you smell to high heaven of dung.  What a way to check out!

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[gcreptile 11,094]

Iranian mathematician and first female Fields medal winner Maryam Mirzakhani dies of breast cancer at 40:

 

http://ifpnews.com/exclusive/iran-math-genius-die-cancer/

 

On the shortlist - off the shortlist

[msc 18,558]

2 hours ago, gcreptile said:

Iranian mathematician and first female Fields medal winner Miryam Mirzakhani dies of breast cancer at 40:

 

http://ifpnews.com/exclusive/iran-math-genius-die-cancer/

 

On the shortlist - off the shortlist

 

Shortlist goes up, shortlist goes down.

 

[Death Impends 8,055]

3 hours ago, gcreptile said:

Iranian mathematician and first female Fields medal winner Miryam Mirzakhani dies of breast cancer at 40:

 

http://ifpnews.com/exclusive/iran-math-genius-die-cancer/

 

On the shortlist - off the shortlist

 

Yes, would have hoped that one would have lasted longer as young QO cert cult picks are always a commodity. But then it looked to be a case where the cancer was only revealed because she was at the critical point.

[maryportfuncity 10,700]

4 hours ago, Death Impends said:

 

Yes, would have hoped that one would have lasted longer as young QO cert cult picks are always a commodity. But then it looked to be a case where the cancer was only revealed because she was at the critical point.

 

The only consolation being she was probably the perfect person to be able to calculate the odds against such an unlikely series of events.

 

[Sir Creep 7,072]

Marian Cleeves Diamond, the UC Berkeley professor who studied Albert Einstein's brain, died Monday in Oakland.  She was 90.  Diamond was "one of the founders of modern neuroscience," the release said, by being the first to show that the human brain has the ability to change with experience and improve with enrichment.  She showed evidence of this capability in Einstein's brain, achieving celebrity status in 1984 when she examined preserved slices of the famed physicist's brain.  Einstein had more support cells in his brain than the average person, she observed.
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[Bibliogryphon 9,653]

Martin Roth former director of the V&A museum dead at 62.

[Spade_Cooley 9,639]

Finally time for a docent thread?

[Sir Creep 7,072]

Cathleen S. Morawetz, a mathematician whose theorems often found use in solving real-world engineering problems, died on Tuesday at her home in Manhattan. She was 94.

Her death was reported by New York University, where she had been a professor.

Much of Dr. Morawetz’s research centered on equations that describe the motion of fluids and waves — in water, sound, light and vibrating solids. One of her first notable papers helped explain the flow of air around airplanes flying close to the speed of sound.

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[Ulitzer95 12,910]

Lotfi A. Zedah, an Azerbaijani-American mathematician and theorist, has died at the age of 96. http://www.ibna.ir/en/doc/naghli/250978/iranian-theorist-of-fuzzy-logic-dies

To quote his Wiki article: He is best known for proposing the fuzzy mathematics consisting of those fuzzy related concepts: fuzzy sets, fuzzy logic, fuzzy algorithms, fuzzy semantics, fuzzy languages, fuzzy control, fuzzy systems, fuzzy probabilities, fuzzy events, and fuzzy information.

Sounds like a bit of a know-it-all. Time for his fuzzy funeral...

[drol 12,157]

On 13/8/2017 at 12:31, Ulitzer95 said:

Lotfi A. Zedah, an Azerbaijani-American mathematician and theorist, has died at the age of 96. http://www.ibna.ir/en/doc/naghli/250978/iranian-theorist-of-fuzzy-logic-dies

To quote his Wiki article: He is best known for proposing the fuzzy mathematics consisting of those fuzzy related concepts: fuzzy sets, fuzzy logic, fuzzy algorithms, fuzzy semantics, fuzzy languages, fuzzy control, fuzzy systems, fuzzy probabilities, fuzzy events, and fuzzy information.

Sounds like a bit of a know-it-all. Time for his fuzzy funeral...

Reports of death withdrawn. Zadeh is still alive.

[Sir Creep 7,072]

5 hours ago, drol said:

Reports of death withdrawn. Zadeh is still alive.

The reports of his death seemed fuzzy.

[drol 12,157]

18 hours ago, Sir Creep said:

The reports of his death seemed fuzzy.

Well, we take death at 0 and life at 1, he is probably around 0.6.

[YoungWillz 21,255]

On ‎8‎/‎14‎/‎2017 at 16:32, drol said:

Reports of death withdrawn. Zadeh is still alive.

He's dead again...maybe...http://news.az/articles/society/125107

[drol 12,157]

8 hours ago, YoungWillz said:

He's dead again...maybe...http://news.az/articles/society/125107

Wikipedia has protected the page because there are no reliable sources. How fuzzy!

[YoungWillz 21,255]

El Pais is apparently reliable enough. Zadeh's dead. https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=https%3A%2F%2Felpais.com%2Felpais%2F2017%2F09%2F07%2Fciencia%2F1504794144_525637.html&edit-text

[drol 12,157]

55 minutes ago, YoungWillz said:

El Pais is apparently reliable enough. Zadeh's dead. https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=https%3A%2F%2Felpais.com%2Felpais%2F2017%2F09%2F07%2Fciencia%2F1504794144_525637.html&edit-text

They say it is not enough. And they will keep saying it till an US based obit appears.

[YoungWillz 21,255]

34 minutes ago, drol said:

They say it is not enough. And they will keep saying it till an US based obit appears.

On that basis, just like with the Saudi Royals, I give up and won't follow this story any longer, ha ha.

[Toast 16,246]

47 minutes ago, drol said:

1 hour ago, YoungWillz said:

El Pais is apparently reliable enough. Zadeh's dead. https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=https%3A%2F%2Felpais.com%2Felpais%2F2017%2F09%2F07%2Fciencia%2F1504794144_525637.html&edit-text

They say it is not enough. And they will keep saying it till an US based obit appears.

 

Wikipedia?  Then they have just taken a massive nose-dive in my estimation.  Ignorant cunts.

[Spade_Cooley 9,639]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Lotfi_A._Zadeh#Protected_edit_request_on_7_September_2017

 

It's mainly one guy blocking the edit, he refuses to take Zadeh's own Facebook page, the Azeri consulate and Spain's largest newspaper as evidence the guy's dead.

[Joey Russ 7,269]

8 minutes ago, Spade_Cooley said:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Lotfi_A._Zadeh#Protected_edit_request_on_7_September_2017

 

It's mainly one guy blocking the edit, he refuses to take Zadeh's own Facebook page, the Azeri consulate and Spain's largest newspaper as evidence the guy's dead.

Typical Wikipedia cunt he is. 

[msc 18,558]

Hey, nice to see El Pais, and the Azeri consulate, are also considered atrocious sources by Wiki.

[msc 18,558]

Total edits (including deleted): 214,918

 

Guy really likes Wiki...

[drol 12,157]

Ridicolous. An entire encyclopedia kept hostage by a dick.

[Thatcher 2,501]

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The president of the country that Prof. Zadeh has lived in for the last 74 years is Donald Trump. As far as I know, President Trump hasn't said anything about Zadeh's death, and neither has the president of the university where Zadeh has been a professor for 58 years. —BarrelProof (talk) 19:23, 7 September 2017 (UTC)

Get the White House on the line.