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Cathleen Morawetz has died
145 points by dnetesn
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/11/science/cathleen-morawetz-dea...tream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=sectionfront&_r=0___________________________________________________________________
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danso - 2 hours ago
The obit says she became president of the American Mathematical
Society in 1995 -- which means she was still leading at the age of
72.Her writeup when receiving the National Medal of Science in
1998: http://www.ams.org/notices/199903/comm-morawetz.pdf
cpr - 3 hours ago
Curious why this resonates with the HN crowd?Reqiescat in pace.
Mz - 2 hours ago
The article has a lot of good info in it. There is really more
here than just the fact that someone died. I had never heard of
her before, but the article was an interesting read due to the
content of her work, basically.
macspoofing - 1 hours ago
It was a nice write-up of a Mathematician I've never heard about.
HN tends to have a mix of tech startup, programming and STEM-
related news. I'm not surprised to see it here.
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sctb - 2 hours ago
This is shockingly disrespectful and I'm dismayed to see this
on Hacker News. It seems you won't stop abusing the community
with incivility so we've banned the account.
purple-again - 3 hours ago
Heavy cross pollination between mathematics and programming. More
so in some disciplines than others. All around sad loss for
humanity.
zitterbewegung - 4 hours ago
The title of the article is somewhat strange in that it sounds like
Mathematics doesn't have many real world applications. On the other
hand I believe that the title of the article is very effective for
people to share it or even as an attention grabber.
macspoofing - 1 hours ago
>it sounds like Mathematics doesn't have many real world
applications.When it comes to Pure Mathematics, isn't that true
in general?
microcolonel - 1 hours ago
Given the proximity to physics, that is very often untrue.
Because of how abstract logic and maths are, analogies from
maths often inform us about the physical world.
vanderZwan - 3 hours ago
Well, a lot of people also believe that most modern mathematics
is more abstract theory and rarely applied outside of its own
field. Her work seems very closely tied to physics. So I don't
think explicitly mentioning that she did applied maths is bad,
especially for lay people