• ryedaft@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      141·
      5 天前

      No one means Laplace the person if they say Laplace. And the same for Lagrange though that’s usually only Lagrange points and Laplace is mostly the distribution but also other stuff. Very little of mathematics is named for women because of misogyny. The only thing that comes to mind is Noether’s theorem and that’s not something you come across often. We have Pythagoras but not Hypathia. Einstein but not Maric. At least Lovelace is as famous as Babbage.

    • Annoyed_🦀 @lemmy.zipEnglish
      2·
      4 天前

      Lan Wu

      I know you’re making a joke, but people getting chinese name wrong always tick me off. Her name is Wu Sau Lan, Wu is the surname, and Sau Lan is her given name, and Chinese put their surname first, given name after. Asian is never given the respect they deserved from the west when their name is pronounced in a wrong order.

      • LwL@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        4 天前

        The order thing is very debatable tbh, I generally agree that going in origin culture order is better (easier to keep consistent imo), but there are at least a lot of japanese artists that swap the name order when romanized. (And I don’t think I’d care if someone swapped my name order when speaking chinese).

        Missing the “Sau” (no idea if Sau Lan is one name romanized as two words or two names) feels like a product of ignorance and pretty disrespectful though, yea.

  • BarrelAgedBoredom@lemmy.zipEnglish
    6·
    5 天前

    I’m in school for respiratory therapy and we learned about laplaces law as it relates to alveoli in the lungs. What are the typical applications of laplaces law? Just wondering because I’m drawing a blank on other ways it could be/is used

    • BodePlotHole@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      5 天前

      It might also be representing the Laplace Transform, where you convert equations from time-based space to frequency-based space. I used it a bunch in engineering school to make super complicated differential equation relationships into simpler terms.

      Shit is pretty cool…

      • Flipper@feddit.orgEnglish
        1·
        5 天前

        As a specific example: it is used in control loops to accurately describe your system. If you have an accurate description it then becomes trivial to describe the PID controller to manage it. Going from open to closed loop is as simple as adding +1 to your equation for example.

    • ryannathans@aussie.zoneEnglish
      8·
      4 天前

      Statements like these drive dislike for STEM and general aversion to math and science literacy. Those are things we desperately need

      • someacnt@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        2 天前

        Soo am I supposed to tolerate physicists casually integrating random shit like connections? And haphazardly normalizing integrals that does not converge? Damnit, you can’t even give even loose sense of ‘measure’ to these spaces! How should I tolerate these as a mathematician?

  • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    34·
    5 天前

    Always wondered if women were naturally not as good at math as men or if it’s a social construct. Easier to believe the social construct thing, but there are differences in how we think. Hell, there are differences in our very vision. But math? Dunno.

    What’s the latest science on this? Anyone? (And yes, I too can find articles supporting any view I choose. Got any solid science?)

    • psud@aussie.zoneEnglish
      2·
      4 天前

      I recall when I last heard that girls did better at maths in school than boys, I recalled the amount of effort that had been employed to better teach maths to girls to address historical biases and thought, “I guess now they need to work out how to teach it to boys if they really are trying for equality”

      But I don’t think they were trying for equality

      I’m not studying social sciences anymore so haven’t seen anything more recent than the early 2000s but I can’t imagine much study has been funded to improve boys education beyond general improvement to education

      I think the difference is just that girls are typically less prone to slacking off than boys, more focused on success. But that’s less true now than it was, girls are now as unfocused as boys.

      I think the difficulty girls had was entirely due to them being told it took a male brain to do well.

      This is all about Australian schools, I presume in more misogynist places girls are still told they’re bad at maths because they’re girls

      Ed. Typo/swipeo error correction