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Mathematicians Of The Day
23rd June
On this day in 1783, the first meeting of the Royal Society of Edinburgh took place in the Old Library of Edinburgh University.
On this day in 2012 Google released a Turing doodle.
Instructions for playing with the doodle are at THIS LINK.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 2000.
On this day in 2012 Google released a Turing doodle.
Instructions for playing with the doodle are at THIS LINK.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 2000.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1612: Andrea Tacquet
- 1746: William Trail Ⓟ
- 1824: Zacharias Dase Ⓟ
- 1841: Woolsey Johnson Ⓟ
- 1858: William Johnson Ⓟ
- 1871: John Turner Ⓟ
- 1895: Bernard Childs Ⓟ
- 1912: Alan Turing Ⓟ
- 1914: Colin Cherry Ⓟ
- 1941: Ivor Grattan-Guinness Ⓟ
- 1944: Richard Stanley Ⓟ
- 1959: Benoît Perthame Ⓟ
Died:
- 1891: Wilhelm Weber Ⓟ
- 1978: Derek Waller Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Alan Turing
A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.
