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David Bessis

@davidbessis

Rogue mathematician.
"The product of mathematics is clarity and understanding." — Bill Thurston

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linkhttps://davidbessis.substack.com/ calendar_today18-01-2012 21:06:28

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Lachezar Kolev (@lbkolev) 's Twitter Profile Photo

David Bessis When i found out the game could be rigged (no pun intended) I just couldn't not do it. The book is absolutely profound—there isn't a person I haven't recommended it to. Thanks for writing the book and for the signed copy! 🙇

carl feynman (@carl_feynman) 's Twitter Profile Photo

David Bessis The underlying distribution is a bell curve, like most distributions. Bell curves always produce this shape of sigmoid when plotted in this strange way. It’s nothing usual about life span in particular.

David Bessis (@davidbessis) 's Twitter Profile Photo

"The motherland, my friends, is not the president's ass that has to be slobbered and kissed all the time, the motherland is an impoverished old woman at the train station selling potatoes." Yuri Shevchuk has poetic talent AND balls.

Sasha Gusev (@sashagusevposts) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The fact that education increases intelligence is one of the most heretical ideas one can post on X and the response is fascinating. Below is a verbatim quote from the largest meta-analysis to date; the author literally wrote a book on intelligence. Let's see how people take it:

Fermat's Library (@fermatslibrary) 's Twitter Profile Photo

"There are only two kinds of modern math books: Those you cannot read beyond the first sentence, and those you cannot read beyond the first page" - C.N. Yang (Nobel laureate in Physics)

Robert Ziman (@robziman) 's Twitter Profile Photo

"Developing good mental habits, adopting the right psychological attitude, can make you a billion times better at math. But the method for becoming good at math has never been taught in schools…" - David Bessis, Mathematica: A Secret World of Intuition and Curiosity (2024)