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Mathematicians Of The Day
20th November
On this day in 1711, Robert Simson submitted to a simple test of his mathematical knowledge and was duly admitted as professor of mathematics at the University of Glasgow.
On this day in 2020 Google released a Mandelbrot doodle.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 2000.
On this day in 2020 Google released a Mandelbrot doodle.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 2000.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1769: Annibale Giordano Ⓟ
- 1889: Edwin Hubble Ⓟ
- 1893: André Bloch
- 1914: Pedro Abellanas Ⓟ
- 1917: Leonard Jimmie Savage Ⓟ
- 1924: Benoit Mandelbrot Ⓟ
- 1942: Abdel-Shafy Obada Ⓟ
- 1963: Timothy Gowers Ⓟ
Died:
- 1763: Mei Juecheng
- 1764: Christian Goldbach
- 1856: Farkas Bolyai Ⓟ
- 1907: Thomas Barker
- 1908: Georgy Voronoy Ⓟ
- 1934: Willem de Sitter Ⓟ
- 1960: Hidehiko Yamabe Ⓟ
- 1986: Arne Beurling Ⓟ
- 1986: Alexander Ostrowski Ⓟ
- 1989: Wade Ellis Ⓟ
- 1998: Vincent McRae
- 2015: Miroslav Fiedler Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Benoit Mandelbrot
Now that I near 80, I realize with wistful pleasure that on many occasions I was 10, 20, 40, even 50 years ahead of my time.
