Jay Cummings ✓

@LongFormMath · Sacramento, CA · joined 22 Jul 2019

Math prof. Author of long-form textbooks on proofs (https://t.co/YqXnxDmOe0), real analysis (https://t.co/3IGQ6BIx5Z) & math history (https://t.co/KkXMGTxCDK).

51 894Followers

599Following

6 969Posts total

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Jay Cummings ✓@LongFormMath18 Sep

https://t.co/PPgJajOmKT

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Jay Cummings ✓@LongFormMath18 Sep

Don’t pick Newton. As a professor at Cambridge he was required to give periodic lectures but he was so bad at it that often not a single person would show up. (Being a man of honor, he would lecture anyways—to an empty room.) 126.8K views · 2.7K likes · 60 reposts · 64 replies Open on X →

Jay Cummings ✓@LongFormMath16 Sep

Watching AI agents have all the fun https://t.co/UxPYsCKVlK

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Jay Cummings ✓@LongFormMath16 Sep

Around 12 years ago I asked Ron Graham who he thought was the greatest living mathematician. He said, "Well most people would say Tao, and he very well might be, but I'll say Serre." 33.1K views · 617 likes · 36 reposts · 9 replies Open on X →

Jay Cummings ✓@LongFormMath16 Sep

The Bernoullis were more than a family of mathematicians; they formed a remarkable mathematical dynasty. Across several generations, Jacob, Johann, Daniel, and others made important contributions to mathematics and mathematical physics during the 17th and 18th centuries, https:

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Jay Cummings ✓@LongFormMath22 Apr 2025

🧵 My 3rd book is now out! It is on the fascinating history of math. How did people throughout history think about math?What problems did they care about? How did they express them? How were they solved? This book includes a lot of historical math. https://t.co/WQ3RRI6J4T 212.6K views · 795 likes · 113 reposts · 47 replies Open on X →

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5 posts dos últimos 90 dias, ao lado da faixa de 10K–100K seguidores. aparece muito além do próprio público, e esse público reage.

Mediana de visualizações33 068esta conta997mediana para 10K–100K

Alcance, %63.72%esta conta3.84%mediana para 10K–100K

Engajamento, %2.12%esta conta1.52%mediana para 10K–100K

Métrica	Esta conta	Mediana para 10K–100K	Proporção
Mediana de visualizações por post	33 068	997	33.2×
Alcance (visualizações ÷ seguidores)	63.72%	3.84%	16.6×
Taxa de engajamento	2.12%	1.52%	1.40×

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35.4K16 Sep

33.1K

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126.8K18 Sep

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Engagement rate per post

0.45%22 Apr

1.39%16 Sep

2.00%

2.12%

2.25%18 Sep

3.27%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.

What the audience does

Likes76.7%5 582 in total

Reposts4.7%344 in total

Replies1.8%134 in total

Quotes0.4%30 in total

Bookmarks16.4%1 192 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

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