Mathematicians Of The Day

13th November



On this day in 1845, Michael Faraday wrote to John Herschel:
It was only the very strongest conviction that Light, Magnetism and Electricity must be connected that could have led me to resume the subject and persevere through much labour before I found the key. Now all is simplicity itself.

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Quotation of the day

From Alexander Grothendieck
The introduction of the cipher 0 or the group concept was general nonsense too, and mathematics was more or less stagnating for thousands of years because nobody was around to take such childish steps ...
In a letter in 1982 to Ronald Brown