Ciro Santilli @cirosantilli 37

Maybe we need these people, maybe we do.

The problem as with many well known science communicators is that he falls too much on the basic side of the the missing link between basic and advanced.

Due to Ciro Santilli's campaign for freedom of speech in China, Ciro Santilli' cult research is located at github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/flg-cult (permalink).

The 3D regular convex polyhedrons are super famous, have the name: Platonic solid, and have been known since antiquity. In particular, there are only 5 of them.

The counts per dimension are:

The cool thing is that the 3 that exist in 5+ dimensions are all of one of the three families:Then, the 2 3D missing ones have 4D analogues and the sixth one in 4D does not have a 3D analogue: the 24-cell. Yes, this is the kind of irregular stuff Ciro Santilli lives for.

Nobel Prize of Mathematics.

The Nobel Prize of mathematics!

That 15,000 canadian dollar prize though, what a joke! That's what you get when an impoverished scientist, and not a rich industrialist, creates a prize!

The only one on GitHub. In RST and renders to HTML with image formulas.

Too "direct formula overload" at first look.

By the creator of SymPy, who works at Los Alamos National Laboratory and has a PhD in chemical physics: swww.linkedin.com/in/ondřej-čertík-064b355b/ Man, big kudos to this dude.

Affiliation: Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Doctoral advisor: Murray Gell-Mann.

www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVV0r6CmEsFw1phnddYWXtVkRW8eUVlqx Edward Teller interview by Web of Stories (1996) Date shown at: www.webofstories.com/play/edward.teller/1. Listener: John H. Nuckolls

Ciro's theory for his disappearance is that he became a Majorana fermion and flew off into the infinite.