MacTutorMathematicians Of The Day
28th March
On this day in 1949, the phrase "Big Bang" was created. Shortly after 6:30 am GMT on BBC's The Third Program, Fred Hoyle used the term in describing theories that contrasted with his own "continuous creation" model for the Universe.
...based on a theory that all the matter in the universe was created in one big bang ...
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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 Alexander Grothendieck
The introduction of the cipher 0 or the group concept was general nonsense too, and mathematics was more or less stagnating for thousands of years because nobody was around to take such childish steps ...
