Post #2374276
2026-05-09 23:39 UTC
@helge@mastodon.social @jonmsterling@mathstodon.xyz @de_Jong_Tom@mathstodon.xyz @ionica@mathstodon.xyz fun fact: the Dutch word for maths, wiskunde, is so different from most other languages because of one 17th century guy called Simon Stevin inventing cool new names for all the sciences.
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@oantolin@mathstodon.xyz 2026-05-10 00:11
@jaror@social.edu.nl This building houses the math department at the University of Stockholm, so I guess math in Swedish is "Patologisk Anatomi Bakteriologi". 😛 @helge@mastodon.social @jonmsterling@mathstodon.xyz @de_Jong_Tom@mathstodon.xyz @ionica@mathstodon.xyz
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@helge@mastodon.social 2026-05-10 00:20
@jaror@social.edu.nl @jonmsterling@mathstodon.xyz @de_Jong_Tom@mathstodon.xyz @ionica@mathstodon.xyz I thought it was Wissenschaft (science) not Math. (I don’t have a run here)