Mathematicians Of The Day

20th November



On this day in 1711Robert Simson submitted to a simple test of his mathematical knowledge and was duly admitted as professor of mathematics at the University of Glasgow.

On this day in 2020 Google released a Mandelbrot doodle.

Click on for a poster.


Quotation of the day

From Benoit Mandelbrot
Being a language, mathematics may be used not only to inform but also, among other things, to seduce.
Fractals : Form, chance and dimension (San Francisco, 1977).