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Mathematicians Of The Day
12th November
On this day in 1936, Alan Turing's paper "On computable numbers," in which he introduced the Turing machine, was published.
On this day in 2011 Google released a Hua Loo-Keng doodle.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 2009.
On this day in 2011 Google released a Hua Loo-Keng doodle.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 2009.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1825: Mikhail Egorovich Vashchenko-Zakharchenko Ⓟ
- 1835: Charles Méray Ⓟ
- 1842: John William Strutt Ⓟ
- 1901: William Whyburn Ⓟ
- 1910: Hua Loo-Keng Ⓟ
- 1920: Georges Reeb Ⓟ
- 1927: Yutaka Taniyama Ⓟ
- 1928: Manuel Valdivia Ⓟ
- 1948: Gerard Murphy Ⓟ
- 1949: Martin Harvey
Died:
- 1944: George Birkhoff Ⓟ
- 2000: Wim Cohen Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From John William Strutt
Examples ... which might be multiplied ad libitum, show how difficult it often is for an experimenter to interpret his results without the aid of mathematics.
