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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
Science would be ruined if (like sports) it were to put competition above everything else, and if it were to clarify the rules of competition by withdrawing entirely into narrowly defined specialities. The rare scholars who are nomads-by-choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the settled disciplines.
