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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.
On this day in 2012 Google released a Turing doodle.
Instructions for playing with the doodle are at THIS LINK.
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 Ⓟ
- 1959: Benoît Perthame Ⓟ
Died:
- 1891: Wilhelm Weber Ⓟ
- 1978: Derek Waller Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Alan Turing
His high pitched voice already stood out above the general murmur of well-behaved junior executives grooming themselves for promotion within the Bell corporation. Then he was suddenly heard to say: "No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company."
