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Mathematicians born on this day:
1889 : Edwin Hubble |
Mathematicians who died on this day:
1763 : Mei Juecheng |
| Benoit Mandelbrot | Edwin Hubble | Timothy Gowers |
Benoit Mandelbrot (1924 - )
Science would be ruined if (like sports) it were to put competition above everything else, and if it were to clarify the rules of competition by withdrawing entirely into narrowly defined specialities. The rare scholars who are nomads-by-choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the settled disciplines.
Entry in Who's Who
Another quotation by one of today's mathematicians.
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