Mark Chaplain
@mcapellanus
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Gregory Chair of Applied Mathematics, University of St Andrews. Research interests: mathematical oncology, mathematical biology. Amateur @ History of Maths
Saint Andrews, Scotland
Joined July 2016
17.XI Strip of the Day A Möbius Strip "...is a surface that can be formed by attaching the ends of a strip of paper together with a half-twist." https://t.co/tk6baCJyR9
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17.XI Our (second) Mathematician of the Day is August Möbius who is best known for his work in topology, especially for his conception of the Möbius strip, a two dimensional surface with only one side. https://t.co/oUnaY9w12B
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17.XI Our (first) Mathematician of the Day is Jean d'Alembert a French mathematician who was a pioneer in the study of differential equations and their use of in physics. He studied the equilibrium and motion of fluids. https://t.co/KyyRd8weNV
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17.XI The Mathematicians of the Day @ #MacTutor are https://t.co/KEgwnJj5ux
mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk
Mathematicians that were born or died on 17th November, including a quote from Jean d'Alembert
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I haven't been very active here for several months, because I've been working on a new book. Soon I will be able to tell you about it. Is anyone out there interested?
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16.XI Our Mathematician of the Day is Eugenio Beltrami who contributed to work in differential geometry on curves and surfaces and gave a concrete realisation of the non-euclidean geometry. President of the Accademia dei Lincei. https://t.co/PkEztgWyx2
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16.XI The Mathematicians of the Day @ #MacTutor are https://t.co/rQg0P9DlHz
mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk
Mathematicians that were born or died on 16th November, including a quote from Eugenio Beltrami
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✨ 𝗝𝗼𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗟𝗠𝗦! ✨ If you are considering joining the LMS and enjoying the many benefits, don't forget to fill in the application by TOMORROW so it can be presented at our next Society Meeting on 21 November. Full details ➡️ https://t.co/4c0dj7GfW9
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15.XI Today is the feast-day of St Albertus Magnus OP. He was canonised in 1931 by Pope Pius XI and in 1941 was made patron of natural scientists by Pope Pius XII. https://t.co/X2rFcJDttJ
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15.XI Our Mathematician of the Day is David Crighton a Welsh mathematician who worked on fluid flow and acoustics. Master of Jesus College @JesusCollegeCam (1997–2000), head of DAMTP between 1991 and 2000 @FacultyMaths
https://t.co/lj8CpYqGAs
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15.XI The Mathematicians of the Day @ #MacTutor are https://t.co/Kq256Cjoi0
mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk
Mathematicians that were born or died on 15th November, including a quote from Johannes Kepler
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14.XI Our (second) Mathematician of the Day is Jacques Neveu a Belgian 🇧🇪🍺🧇🎷🛼🍟 mathematician who worked in France, specialising in probability theory. https://t.co/zAZ60cOlUQ
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14.XI Our (first) Mathematician of the Day is Ulisse Dini an Italian mathematician whose most important work was on the theory of functions of a real variable. Honorary member of London Mathematical Society @LondMathSoc
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14.XI The Mathematicians of the Day @ #MacTutor are https://t.co/T8AjLuB5uh
mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk
Mathematicians that were born or died on 14th November, including a quote from Gottfried Leibniz
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13.XI Quote of the Day Max Dehn #MOTD "Mathematics is the only instructional material that can be presented in an entirely undogmatic way." [Quoted in The Mathematical Intelligencer 5 (1983)]
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13.XI Our Mathematician of the Day is Max Dehn 🇩🇪🇺🇸 who wrote one of the first systematic expositions of topology (1907) and later formulated important problems on group presentations, namely the word problem and the isomorphism problem. https://t.co/L8mjQziNEv
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13.XI The Mathematicians of the Day @ #MacTutor are https://t.co/gyGTVt9HKb
mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk
Mathematicians that were born or died on 13th November, including a quote from Max Dehn
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12.XI Conjecture of the Day 🤔 [Modularity Theorem] The Taniyama–Shimura conjecture (now proved) "...any elliptic curve over Q can be obtained via a rational map with integer coefficients from the classical modular curve X_0(N) for some integer N" https://t.co/LSWvSPqNOa
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12.XI Our Mathematician of the Day is Yutaka Taniyama [谷山 豊] a Japanese mathematician best known for the Taniyama-Shimura conjecture, whose proof led to a proof of Fermat's Last Theorem. https://t.co/5tSMaOCT8I
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12.XI The Mathematicians of the Day @ #MacTutor are https://t.co/jCwABfoQqN
mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk
Mathematicians that were born or died on 12th November, including a quote from John William Strutt
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