Mathematicians Of The Day

22nd May



On this day in 1592, Giordano Bruno was arrested by the Venetian Inquisition for publicising "heretical" beliefs on the nature of the universe. After a trial lasting seven years he was burned alive in Rome.
See THIS LINK.

On this day in 2009 Google released a Chen Jingrun doodle

A (personally designed) stamp of one of today's mathematicians is at THIS LINK.

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Quotation of the day

From Martin Gardner
One would be hard put to find a set of whole numbers with a more fascinating history and more elegant properties surrounded by greater depths of mystery and more totally useless than the perfect numbers.