Mathematicians Of The Day

31st May



On this day in 1941, Hugo Steinhaus, who sometimes joined his colleagues in the Scottish Café, contributed the final question to the Scottish Book, only days before the Nazi troops entered the town.
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Quotation of the day

From John Kemeny
The man ignorant of mathematics will be increasingly limited in his grasp of the main forces of civilization.