emergencyfood to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 1 year agoAsking mathematicians about their proofsimagemessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up1176arrow-down114
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minus-squareOmnificer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up43·1 year agoThere’s also Cleo from Math StackExchange. They’d drop answers to complex problems in a couple of hours with no work shown. It took another mathematician days and several pages of work to prove out one of Cleo’s answers.
minus-squareemergencyfoodOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·edit-21 year agoThat’s amazing! I found this video about her exploits:- https://imgur.com/gallery/uLcN7HW Also this: https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/cleo-the-mysterious-math-menace1/
minus-squaredegen@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·1 year agoLmao this line from the article got me Since then a user on Twitter has claimed to be Cleo but hasn’t offered any proof
There’s also Cleo from Math StackExchange. They’d drop answers to complex problems in a couple of hours with no work shown. It took another mathematician days and several pages of work to prove out one of Cleo’s answers.
That’s amazing! I found this video about her exploits:- https://imgur.com/gallery/uLcN7HW
Also this: https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/cleo-the-mysterious-math-menace1/
Lmao this line from the article got me