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Mathematicians Of The Day
3rd December
On this day in 1638, Edmund Halley became a graduate of the University of Oxford without taking the degree examinations, the degree being conferred on the command of King Charles II.
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Born:
- 1901: Levan Gokieli Ⓟ
- 1903: Sydney Goldstein Ⓟ
- 1924: John Backus Ⓟ
- 1933: Dorothy Foster Ⓟ
- 1936: Jerome Keisler Ⓟ
- 1937: Carl de Boor Ⓟ
- 1939: Mario Wschebor Ⓟ
- 1967: Marie Françoise Ouedraogo Ⓟ
Died:
- 1882: James Challis Ⓟ
- 1945: James Watt
- 1956: Felix Bernstein Ⓟ
- 1983: Elliott Montroll Ⓟ
- 1984: Vladimir Abramovich Rokhlin Ⓟ
- 1995: Catherine Steele Ⓟ
- 2004: Shiing-shen Chern Ⓟ
- 2010: Cora Sadosky Ⓟ
- 2016: Donald Pack Ⓟ
- 2023: Sigurður Helgason Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From John Backus
You need the willingness to fail all the time. You have to generate many ideas and then you have to work very hard only to discover that they don't work.
And you keep doing that over and over until you find one that does work.
