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Nalini Joshi
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Mathematician, wife, mother, addicted to math
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Do you know where I am? #mathematicallife
Four statues of people in robes, crowns and haloes carved into an arched doorframe.
November 6, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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From #Reddit 😁 #mathsky #mathematics
An icon of the poster RepulsiveMousse3992 within the subreddit r/math followed by the text “When do you guys think the Millenium Prize will adjust for inflation? 1 million isn't that much money anymore. It is strange if they don't adjust it and allow their prize to become irrelevant just because of inflation.”
September 24, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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I asked ChatGPT to create a picture of a young me sliding down an elliptic curve 🤔
A cartoon of a young girl sliding down a curve from right to left. She is wearing an orange t-shirt, green shorts, orange & white sneakers, has her hands flung up with a delighted grin, and has dark fuzzy hair tied up in a ponytail on top with an orange band.
September 19, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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🤔… maybe I should feed it one of my #mathematics problems 😁
A screenshot of a webpage popup saying “Solve your maths problems with your camera. Get homework help in the Google app” next to a 4 digit decimal expansion and of pi in blue framed by red, yellow, blue, green rounded corners.
September 17, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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My talk today for #Baxter2025 at 11:30 AEST (UTC+10) 👇🏼
A title slide with the title “How I learnt to stop worrying and love” in grey and “Elliptic Curves” in larger black font above my name and the phrase “Dedicated to Rodney J. Baxter in italics, followed by the Univeristu fo Sydney crest. The background is light olive green.
September 9, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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Like everything I love, complex analytic function theory has become the beautiful lens through which I see everything.
A plot of the contour lines of modulus of the natural log of the Gamma function (from https://mathworld.wolfram.com/LogGammaFunction.html). It uses a range of colours including red, magenta, blue, green, yellow, orange, and red.
September 6, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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I have loved complex analysis ever since I read Lars Ahlfors’ book 📕.
The dark blue front cover of a hardback edition of “Complex analysis an introduction to the theory of analytic functions of one complex variable” by Lars Valerian Ahlfors
September 6, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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The President of @science.org.au Chennupati Jagadish is on fire today, with the best speech I’ve ever heard him give calling for change in the way Australia to change our commitment and investment in science
A room with a sloping floor and wooden benches with seated people looking towards the podium with the President at the lectern in front of a screen stating “Australian Science, Australia’s future”.
September 3, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Will you be @sydney.edu.au today for #OpenDay?
I’ll be at the Mathematics desk in the Great Hall 12:00-14:00 AEST
An aerial view of the main quadrangle of the University of Sydney showing slate roofs, sandstone walls surrounded by green lawns and roads.
August 30, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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An interesting conversation going on at #SAGE2025 tonight
Two people holding microphones sitting on red chairs against a screen stating “Fireside chat, Anti-wokeism: Should we be afraid?” With the names of the speakers underneath: Prof Mustafa Ozbilgin in conversation with Prof Dimitria Groutsis”
August 25, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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I have been away for a while …
A photo of the road through the front windscreen of a car looking out over an unsealed, rippled road and borders of sage-grey bushes. The sky above is blue with lines of feathered clouds …
August 6, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Do you know where I am?
A gnarled gun free on the left, with air gaps between roots, on the edge of a muddy river across from trees touched by sunlight in the top branches, and a lone pelican floating on the water.
July 28, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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Do you know where I am?
A view from high up through a mix of tall modern buildings and a traditional one with a copper roof through to blue waters with a shell-roofed building in the distance. The sun is shining on the scene from the left.
June 18, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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Take our #math undergraduate course to learn how to analyse this #dynamical system 🫣 (from @nytimespr.bsky.social )
A diagrammatic map showing trajectories (in purple) of many planes (indicated as black aircraft icons) arriving and departing from Newark airport, with many loops. The screenshot indicates a time on the top left: 1:36pm and two names attributed as designers on the bottom left: Daniel Wood and Zach Levitt.
May 10, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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Is it a sign of something that I read my first calendar event for next week as “End of mind”?
A snippet of an outlook calendar headed “27 April – 3 May 2025” showing the beginning of Sunday, Monday and Tuesday with the all-day Monday event labelled ”End of mid” and two events on Tuesday labelled as “Exercise” in two different colours.
April 23, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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“Mathematicians throw shade like no others” (from Eric Vyacheslav on LinkedIn)
A screenshot of a post by Eric Vyacheslav on LinkedIn with the above quote referring to a picture from a paper containing a diagram of a tree of depth 4, and caption “FIGURE 1.2. A decision tree for selecting a subset of {a,b, c}.” and “Remark. A picture like this is called a tree. (This is not a formal definition; that will follow later.) If you want to know why the tree is growing upside down, ask the computer scientists who introduced this convention. (The conventional wisdom is that they never went out of the room, and so they never saw a real tree.)”
April 22, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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I had to try it… :)
A white coffee mug, with a rubber band wrapped around its handle, sitting on a timber chopping board on a speckled beige kitchen bench top with salt and pepper shakers and power points in the background.
April 20, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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In case you missed the #mathematicalcontradictions
The text at https://ustr.gov/issue-areas/reciprocal-tariff-calculations which describes the basic approach to calculate reciprocal tariffs, with the two contradictory statements about epsilon highlighted.
April 5, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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This one is for those who know and are suffering from the same funding deadlines colliding today 🤨 Good luck everyone …
A framed poster of a music act called “quantum penguin” aka Matt Woolley with photos on the right showing him playing a violin and a guitar, date of the performance (05 March 2025) and location (Bristol Folk House).
April 2, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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So this happened a night ago 🙏🏽 Royal Society of NSW and Julie Cairney for accepting the award on my behalf …
A page describing the Royal Society of NSW Pollack prize and lecture followed by a paragraph of bio about me. A picture of Professor Julie Cairney, in a blue dress holding an open black velvet box showing a yellow-coloured medal engraved with the Pollack award name and my name.
March 8, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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I’m looking forward to this talk #IMU-INI
A title slide with the title “Findings from the archives The wartime diary of a Senior Wrangler An unpublished manuscript of George Birkhoff” with the name of the speaker June Barrow-Green and her affiliation: The Open University & LSE, with the event title: IMU-INI Mathematical Colloquia and Panels, and date: 6-7 March 2025
March 6, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Apparently #Banksy is from Bristol #mathematicallife
A grey wall with a long white drain pipe on the right and a central artwork showing a window with two people, one a man in a suit with a hand shading his eyes looking out to his right, the other a woman in lingerie, and one unclothes person hanging with one hand holding the window sill and one hand covering his genitalia.
March 5, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Would you eat this?
A display of “potato chip chocolate” packets, wrapped in yellow with red borders containing pictures of green ridged potato chips, for sale, with prices displayed in Japanese.
February 14, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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Guess where I am … #mathematicallife
Amazing table layout with multiple-shaped dishes containing small pieces of appetizers on a rounded almost rectangular lacquered tray.
February 12, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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Ther is something immensely beautiful about this geometric design #muscat #oman
A grand crystal chandelier hanging in the middle of a circular dome with a geometric design of crisscrossing arcs, rimmed with arches.
February 1, 2025 at 8:28 PM