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Mathematicians Of The Day
6th November
On this day in 1936, Stanisław Mazur entered problem 153 in the Scottish Book in Lvov, offering a live goose as a prize for a solution. When Per Enflo solved the problem in 1972, Mazur presented him with a goose.
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Born:
- 1781: Giovanni Plana Ⓟ
- 1869: Arthur Bowley Ⓟ
- 1906: Emma Lehmer Ⓟ
- 1918: Jacy Monteiro Ⓟ
- 1966: Laurent Lafforgue Ⓟ
Died:
- 1656: Jean-Baptiste Morin Ⓟ
- 1880: Giusto Bellavitis Ⓟ
- 1921: Eduard Gubler Ⓟ
- 1934: James Gray
- 1946: Dunham Jackson Ⓟ
- 1966: Frieda Nugel Ⓟ
- 1979: Alexander Weinstein Ⓟ
- 1993: Georges Reeb Ⓟ
- 2010: Peter Hilton Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Peter Hilton
Computation involves going from a question to an answer. Mathematics involves going from an answer to a question.
