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Mathematicians Of The Day
28th March
On this day in 1949, the phrase "Big Bang" was created. Fred Hoyle used the term on the BBC's Third Program, in describing theories that contrasted with his own "continuous creation" model for the Universe.
The post card of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 2011.
...based on the hypothesis that all the matter in the universe was created in one big bang ...He intended it as a pejorative, but the name caught on.
The post card of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 2011.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1847: Gyula Farkas Ⓟ
- 1923: Yitz Herstein Ⓟ
- 1928: Alexander Grothendieck Ⓟ
- 1949: Fritz Grunewald Ⓟ
- 1949: Leslie Valiant Ⓟ
Died:
- 1678: Claude Dechales
- 1840: Simon Lhuilier
- 1850: Bernt Holmboe Ⓟ
- 1946: David Gibb Ⓟ
- 1950: Ernst Hellinger Ⓟ
- 1973: Doris Hellman Ⓟ
- 2011: Pilar Ribeiro Ⓟ
- 2013: George Box Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From George Box
... all models are approximations. Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful. However, the approximate nature of the model must always be borne in mind ...
