Mathematicians Of The Day

10th September



On this day in 2009, the British Prime Minister Gordon Brown made an official public apology on behalf of the British government for the way in which Alan Turing had been treated after the war.
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Quotation of the day

From Charles S Peirce
The one [the logician] studies the science of drawing conclusions, the other [the mathematician] the science which draws necessary conclusions.
Quoted in J R Newman, The World of Mathematics (New York 1956).