Mathematicians Of The Day
26th November
On this day in 1864, Charles Dodgson gave Alice Liddell a hand-printed copy of Alice's Adventures under Ground, a work he wrote for her.
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Born:
- 1870: George Lawson Ⓟ
- 1894: Norbert Wiener Ⓟ
- 1915: Roberto Vázquez Ⓟ
- 1918: Naum Il'ich Feldman Ⓟ
- 1940: Enrico Bombieri Ⓟ
Died:
- 1916: Zoárd Geöcze Ⓟ
- 1935: John Steggall Ⓟ
- 1965: Hilda Hudson Ⓟ
- 1968: Georgii Polozii Ⓟ
- 1977: Ruth Moufang Ⓟ
- 1981: Machgielis Euwe Ⓟ
- 1986: Henry Dye Ⓟ
- 1990: Alan Day Ⓟ
- 1999: John Kelley Ⓟ
- 2013: Douglas Jones Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Norbert Wiener
Mathematics is too arduous and uninviting a field to appeal to those to whom it does not give great rewards. These rewards are of exactly the same character as those of the artist. To see a difficult uncompromising material take living shape and meaning is to be Pygmalion, whether the material is stone or hard, stonelike logic. To see meaning and understanding come where there has been no meaning and no understanding is to share the work of a demiurge. No amount of technical correctness and no amount of labour can replace this creative moment, whether in the life of a mathematician or of a painter or musician. Bound up with it is a judgement of values, quite parallel to the judgement of values that belongs to the painter or the musician. Neither the artist nor the mathematician may be able to tell you what constitutes the difference between a significant piece of work and an inflated trifle; but if he is not able to recognise this in his own heart, he is no artist and no mathematician.