Mark Chaplain
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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
23.V. Our (4th) Mathematician of the Day is Edward Lorenz an American mathematician and meteorologist first recognised the phenomenon of chaos in complex systems.
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23.V. On this day in 1576, Tycho Brahe was given use of the island of Hven (now Ven in Sweden) for his astronomical observatory. He built two observatories: Uraniborg and Stjerneborg.
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23.V. Quote of the Day . Lipman Bers (1914 - 1993) .#mathematicianoftheday . "Mathematics is a collection of cheap tricks and dirty jokes."
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23.V. Our (3rd) Mathematician of the Day is Cora Sadosky Professor of Mathematics at Howard University. She wrote over fifty papers in harmonic analysis and operator theory. She promoted women in mathematics and encouraged African-Americans in maths.
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23.V. Our (2nd) Mathematician of the Day is Lipman Bers a Latvian-born American mathematician who worked on pseudoanalytic functions, Riemann surfaces and Kleinian groups.
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23.V. Our (1st) Mathematician of the Day is Juan Caramuel a Spanish Cistercian, bishop of Vigevano (near Milan), who expounded the general principle of numbers to base n pointing out the benefits of some other bases than 10.
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RT @abel_prize: We thank today’s speakers for their inspiring lectures, and now look forward to continuing the evening at the legendary Abe….
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RT @UoNScience: 🎉Congratulations to Professor John King FRS of @UoNMaths on being elected a Fellow of the @royalsociety! His pioneering wor….
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21.V. Quote of the Day . Ernst Zermelo (1871 - 1953) . ". self-evidence . must not be confused with . provability."
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21.V. On this day in 1683, the Duke of York (later James II) opened the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford @AshmoleanMuseum the first public museum in Britain. The building now houses the Museum of the History of Science.
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21.V. Our Mathematician of the Day is Édouard Goursat 🇫🇷 who is best known for his version of the Cauchy-Goursat theorem stating that the integral of a function round a simple closed contour is zero if the function is analytic inside the contour.
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RT @LondMathSoc: ✨ The 2025 LMS Hardy Lectureship tour with @emilyriehl starts 1️⃣ month today!. Emily will be visiting Aberdeen, Mancheste….
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