Mathematicians Of The Day

24th October



On this day in 1994, Andrew Wiles submitted a paper which finally proved Fermat's Last Theorem. It was published in May 1995.
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The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1946.

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Quotation of the day

From Edmund Whittaker
I do not remember ever having seen a sustained argument by any author which, starting from philosophical or theological premises likely to meet with general acceptance, reached the conclusion that a praiseworthy ordering of one's life is to devote it to research in mathematics.
Scientific American 183 (Sept. 1950) p 42