Mathematicians Of The Day

31st March



On this day in 1952, Alan Turing was charged with homosexual acts, offering no defence other than that he saw nothing wrong in his actions. Found guilty, he was given the alternatives of prison or oestrogen injections for a year. He accepted the latter and returned to a wide range of academic pursuits.
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The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1937.

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Quotation of the day

From Augustin Cournot
...those skilled in mathematical analysis know that its object is not simply to calculate numbers, but that it is also employed to find the relations between magnitudes which cannot be expressed in numbers and between functions whose law is not capable of algebraic expression.
Researches into the Mathematical Principles of the Theory of Wealth