Mathematics & Statistics St Andrews The Royal Society Isaac Newton Institute Here’s a great stamp honoring Wiles and his proof from the Czech Republic in 2000 …

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The Theorem of the Day #TOTD theoremoftheday is Galois’ Theorem on Finite Fields:

theoremoftheday.org/Algebra/Finite…

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Quote of the Day #QOTD

Andrew Wiles

'I will stop here.'

[Concluding the lecture Isaac Newton Institute in which he claimed to have proved the Taniyama-Weil Conjecture for a class of examples, including those necessary to prove Fermat's Last Theorem ]

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On this day in 1936, Konrad Zuse filed a patent for the automatic execution of calculations, a process he invented while working on what would become the Z-1, Germany's first computer. It was a mechanical rather than an electronic machine.

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Our Mathematician of the Day is living legend Sir Andrew Wiles The Royal Society

He is best known for having proved Fermat's Last Theorem in 1995 Isaac Newton Institute . Awarded the Wolf Prize, the Shaw Prize, the Clay Research Award and the Abel Prize.

mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Wi…

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The Mathematicians of the Day #MOTD @ #MacTutor are

mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/OfTheDay/ofthe…

Apollonian gaskets are fractal domains defined by progressively packing the largest enclosed disks. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollonia…

Given a 1-paragraph proof by Peter Frankl (probabilistic and inductive, so pretty densely argued!) sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

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Number of the Day #NOTD

A Dudeney Number
#mathematicianoftheday #MOTD

'...is a natural number equal to the perfect cube of another natural number such that the digit sum of the first natural number is equal to the second.'

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dudeney_n…

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Book of the Day #BOTD

H.E. Dudeney #mathemataicianoftheday #MOTD
'The Canterbury Puzzles and Other Curious Problems'
(1907)

'The Canterbury Puzzles and Other Curious Problems is a 1907 mathematical puzzle book by Henry Dudeney.'

gutenberg.org/files/27635/27…

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Article of the Day #AOTD
Articulus Diei

D. T.[schirnhaus]:
'Methodus auferendi omnes terminos intermedios ex data aequatione.'
Acta Eruditorum 2 (1683), S. 204–207.

ir.cwi.nl/pub/20326

ir.cwi.nl/pub/20326/2032…

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Transformation of the Day #TOTD

The Tschirnhaus Transformation
#mathematicianoftheday #MOTD

'a Tschirnhaus transformation is a type of mapping on polynomials developed by Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus in 1683'

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tschirnha…

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The Theorem of the Day #TOTD theoremoftheday is The LYM Inequality:

theoremoftheday.org/CombinatorialT…

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Quote of the Day #QOTD

Joseph-Louis Lagrange (1736 - 1813)

'When we ask advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.'

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On this day in 1661 Robert Hooke's first paper on capillary action was read to the 'Society for the Promoting of Physico-Mathematical Experimental Learning'. He showed that the narrower the tube, the higher water rose in it. A year later the Society became The Royal Society

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Our (second) Mathematician of the Day #motd2 is Henry Dudeney who is best known for his publications of mathematical problems and pastimes, some of which provoked serious mathematical research.

mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Du…

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Our (first) Mathematician of the Day #motd is Ehrenfried Tschirnhaus who worked on the solution of equations and the study of curves. He is best known for the transformation which removes the term of degree n-1 from an equation of degree n.

mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Ts…

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The Mathematicians of the Day #motd @ #MacTutor are

mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/OfTheDay/ofthe…

Oldies but goldies: J. Bernoulli, Supplementum defectus Geometriae Cartesianae circa Inventionem Locorum, 1695. Solved the Brachistochrone problem, the most famous example of the calculus of variations. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brachisto…

Congratulations to our good friends Apala Majumdar MathsStats@Strath and Jonathan Fraser Mathematics & Statistics St Andrews on their very well deserved fellowships Royal Society of Edinburgh