My linocut print of mathematician Virginia Ragsdale in lavender with 4 of her topological diagrams from her thesis in pale green

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   Ele Willoughby, PhD (minouette@spore.social)'s status on Saturday, 14-Dec-2024 15:46:48 JST Ele Willoughby, PhD

   Bonus #artAdventCalendar: Happy birthday to #mathematician Virginia Ragsdale (1870-1945). The Ragsdale conjecture, made in her 1906 dissertation, is amongst the earliest & most famous on the #topology of real & algebraic curves, which stimulated a lot of 20th century research & was not disproved until ‘79. A correct upper bound has yet to be found. In her dissertation she tackles the 16th of David Hilbert’s famous 23 unsolved problems in mathematics 🧵

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