Bibliolater 📚📜🖋📐 @bibliolater@social.cleverlibre.org

from "Special functions, Laplace and Fourier Transform on Measure Chains" by Stefan Hilger (1999)

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Special_Functions_Laplace_and_Fourier_Tr/30URrgEACAAJ?hl=en&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

#math #timescales

English astronomer, mathematician and physicis Edmond Halley died #OTD in 1741.

Halley is famous in his own right for analyzing the orbits of comets, which he showed to be elliptical and periodic. Halley's Comet returned, as he predicted, in 1758, 15 years after his death. Halley's discovery of stellar motion, though less well known than his comet, was no less an achievement. No longer were the stars believed fixed, either to an outer sphere or in space. via @aip

#books #science #astronomy

#Asia -- #China and #India together are forecast to generate about half of global growth this year, chart @IMFNews https://www.imf.org/en/Blogs/Articles/2023/05/01/asia-poised-to-drive-global-economic-growth-boosted-by-chinas-reopening?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery

As the Chart of the Week shows, the higher #inflation so far mainly reflects higher #profits and import prices, with profits accounting for 45% of price rises since the start of 2022, chart @IMFNews https://www.imf.org/en/Blogs/Articles/2023/06/26/europes-inflation-outlook-depends-on-how-corporate-profits-absorb-wage-gains?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery

gītsere, m.n: covetous, greedy person; a miser. (YEET-seh-ruh / ˈjiːt-sɛ-rə)
#OldEnglish #WOTD

I think the vast majority of humans simply have no idea that this is happening, or what it implies.

The temperatures of the oceans have been continually increasing, and last year reached a new high.

The thing about oceans is, you can't reverse a trend like this quickly. The masses involved are too large. Even if we flat-lined carbon emissions today, this trend would continue for decades to come.

• https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00376-024-3378-5
• https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/11/ocean-warming-temperatures-2023-extreme-weather-data
#climate #climatechange #climatecrisis

Dude, for the love of all things sacred, please include #hashtags in your posts.

I've found the most amazing accounts to follow in the few years I've been on #Mastodon simply because they included hashtags.

(Latest one: about 90 seconds ago).

You'll never know who is interested in your work or posts if people following those hashtags never see your work or posts.

I see that the Ancient World Mapping Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has revamped its website:

https://awmc.unc.edu/

Note that blog posts have been side-barred down right on desktop.

But most importantly, there's a feed:

https://awmc.unc.edu/feed

#ancientGeography #cartography #classics #HGIS #UNCCH #UNCChapelHill #AWMC

@bibliolater qoto made quite a bit of changes to the basic mastodon software. You guys aren't limited to our pleb's 500 character toots, for instance. I suppose that's just one of the changes.

@bibliolater As far as I know, it's in the works, but not implemented yet.

Some other fediverse things do use them, though.

French mathematician Pierre de Fermat died #OTD in 1665.

He is recognized for his discovery of an original method of finding the greatest and the smallest ordinates of curved lines, which is analogous to that of differential calculus, then unknown, and his research into number theory. He made notable contributions to analytic geometry, probability, and optics. via @wikipedia

#mathematics
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Something for our bibliophiles https://www.medievalists.net/2024/01/first-book-reviewer/ #books #bookreview

@bibliolater More devaluations to come, sadly.

... At the heart of Milei’s audacious economic agenda is his plan to devalue the peso from 400 to 800 per $1 U.S. dollar and then by an additional 2% each month. Part of the goal is to make Argentina’s exports less expensive — and thus more competitive — overseas and reduce the country’s gaping trade deficit... His plan would narrow — but not close – the gap between the official exchange rate and the 1,000-peso-to-$1 rate in the black market...