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Alon Amit
@alonamit
Math something, Product something, VP @intuit, previously @origamilogic @facebook @google. He/him, though sometimes I wish
SF Bay Area, CA
quora.com/Alon-Amit
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    Alon Amit
    @alonamit
    Feb 28, 2021
    The prime factorization of 13532385396179 is stunning.
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    Alon Amit
    @alonamit
    Feb 28, 2021
    Replying to @base58ed
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    Alon Amit
    @alonamit
    May 22, 2020
    Replying to @JSEllenberg
    The four-colon theorem
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    Alon Amit
    @alonamit
    Mar 19, 2021
    Starry-eyed fanboy sends email to freshly minted Abel prize laureate. Avi replies 🤩🤩🤩
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    Alon Amit
    @alonamit
    Feb 28, 2021
    Replying to @abbottsys
    Compare the factorization with the decimal representation of the number itself
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    Alon Amit
    @alonamit
    Feb 28, 2021
    Replying to @alonamit
    This discovery by James Davis actually refutes a conjecture made by J. H. Conway
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    Alon Amit
    @alonamit
    May 15, 2023
    All equilateral triangles inscribed in a square. Their centers trace a small square.
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    Alon Amit
    @alonamit
    Dec 19, 2021
    Why I Quora.
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    Alon Amit
    @alonamit
    Jun 30, 2021
    This was not an “expert committee”, it didn’t take them five years, and the proof is just as wrong today as it was three years ago when it got posted online. Very sad that people get excited by such a bizarre “verification” process. This isn’t peer review.
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    Shashi Tharoor
    @ShashiTharoor
    Jun 29, 2021
    The Riemann Hypothesis is a mathematical problem that has remained unsolved for 161 years—until mathematical physicist Kumar Eswaran from Hyderabad did it. It took five years for an expert committee to approve the proof -- and a $1 million prize: deccanchronicle.com/nation/in-othe…
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    Alon Amit
    @alonamit
    Jun 20, 2020
    Pretty proud of landing 100K followers just writing about math. @Quora
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    Alon Amit
    @alonamit
    Oct 16, 2018
    How can kids understand such headlines and fail to grasp the quantifiers in the epsilon-delta definition of a limit?
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    Alon Amit
    @alonamit
    Apr 30, 2018
    Hilarious. Someone was tasked with creating a stock image for math cheating, so they plastered some random math formulas on a fingernail. They didn’t realize that when you copy and paste math into Photoshop, you get LaTeX source code instead of actual readable math.
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    Republic of Mathematics
    @republicofmath
    Apr 29, 2018
    When will academics get rid of tests, quizzes and exams? Cheating at UK's top universities soars by 30% bit.ly/2raZEuT
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    Alon Amit
    @alonamit
    Mar 4, 2018
    Another fantastic video from @3Blue1Brown. I have a feeling my Pi manifesto is the target of a little well-earned jab at the beginning there, but that’s cool ;-)
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    Grant Sanderson
    @3blue1brown
    Mar 2, 2018
    New video! "The stunning geometry behind this surprising equation". Primarily written and animated by newest 3b1b team member @BenHambrecht. Why is 1+1/4+1/9+1/16+... = π²/6 youtu.be/d-o3eB9sfls
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    Alon Amit
    @alonamit
    May 13, 2020
    I didn't actually click Submit, but damn it was tempting.
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