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Mark Chaplain

@mcapellanus

Gregory Chair of Applied Mathematics, University of St Andrews.
Research interests: mathematical oncology, mathematical biology.
Amateur @ History of Maths

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6.XI Our Mathematician of the Day is Laurent Lafforgue a French mathematician known for his work in the fields of number theory and analysis. He proved the Langlands conjectures for the automorphism group of a function field. 2002 Fields Medallist. mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/La…

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Our Mathematician of the Day is Laurent Lafforgue a French mathematician known for his work in the fields of number theory and analysis. He proved the Langlands conjectures for the automorphism group of a function field. 2002 Fields Medallist. 

mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/La…
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UMI umi.dm.unibo.it/.../book-prize… and Springer link.springer.com/series/7172/bo…... are glad to announce the 2025 UMI Book Prize Award. This Prize umi.dm.unibo.it/.../Book-Prize…... is established to honour an excellent, original monograph in any field of mathematics.

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Celebrate mathematics with the LMS community at this year’s AGM, which just 2️⃣ weeks away! Open to all, the event features the Presidential Address by Professor Jens Marklof FRS and a Supporting Lecture by Professor Laura Monk (University of Bristol). ➡️ lms.ac.uk/events/lms-ann…

Celebrate mathematics with the LMS community at this year’s AGM, which just 2️⃣ weeks away!

Open to all, the event features the Presidential Address by Professor Jens Marklof FRS and a Supporting Lecture by Professor Laura Monk (University of Bristol).

➡️ lms.ac.uk/events/lms-ann…
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7.XI Our Mathematician of the Day is Heinrich Friedrich Weber a German physicist who was important in the history of the Zürich Polytechnic. His most famous student was Einstein. mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/We…

7.XI

Our Mathematician of the Day is Heinrich Friedrich Weber a German physicist who was important in the history of the Zürich Polytechnic. His most famous student was Einstein.

mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/We…
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7.XI Function of the Day The Weber function "The Weber function is closely related to Bessel functions of the second kind." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anger_fun…

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Function of the Day 

The Weber function

"The Weber function is closely related to Bessel functions of the second kind."

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New heroes portrait of Cornell University mathematician Steven Strogatz for National Academies. Steven Strogatz has a way of finding rhythm in places most people overlook. In his office at Malott Hall at Cornell, and later in the Space Sciences Building at the SPIF, that rhythm came alive in a

New heroes portrait of <a href="/Cornell/">Cornell University</a> mathematician <a href="/stevenstrogatz/">Steven Strogatz</a> for <a href="/theNASEM/">National Academies</a>.

Steven Strogatz has a way of finding rhythm in places most people overlook. In his office at Malott Hall at Cornell, and later in the Space Sciences Building at the SPIF, that rhythm came alive in a
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8.XI Our (first) Mathematician of the Day is Gottlob Frege a German mathematician who was one of the founders of modern symbolic logic putting forward the view that mathematics is reducible to logic. mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Fr…

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Our (first) Mathematician of the Day is Gottlob Frege a German mathematician who was one of the founders of modern symbolic logic putting forward the view that mathematics is reducible to logic. 

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8.XI Our (second) Mathematician of the Day is Felix Hausdorff who worked in topology creating a theory of topological and metric spaces. He also worked in set theory and introduced the concept of a partially ordered set. mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Ha…

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Our (second) Mathematician of the Day is Felix Hausdorff who worked in topology creating a theory of topological and metric spaces. He also worked in set theory and introduced the concept of a partially ordered set.

mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Ha…
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8.XI Dimension of the Day Hausdorff Dimension "Hausdorff dimension is a measure of roughness, or more specifically, fractal dimension, that was introduced in 1918 by mathematician Felix Hausdorff." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hausdorff…

8.XI

Dimension of the Day 

Hausdorff Dimension 

"Hausdorff dimension is a measure of roughness, or more specifically, fractal dimension, that was introduced in 1918 by mathematician Felix Hausdorff."

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9.XI Our Mathematician of the Day is Izabela Abramowicz 🇵🇱 first woman awarded a gold medal and a first-degree diploma in mathematics from the University of Kyiv. Outstanding school teacher; awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta. mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Ab…

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Our Mathematician of the Day is Izabela Abramowicz 🇵🇱 first woman awarded a gold medal and a first-degree diploma in mathematics from the University of Kyiv. Outstanding school teacher; awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta.

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🇮🇳 Our final Global Meeting in Mumbai starts TODAY. The theme is 'Geometry and Dynamics' and kindly hosted by our friends at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. For more details 👇 mathweb.tifr.res.in/sites/default/…

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10.XI Our (first) Mathematician of the Day is Tomás Bachiller a Spanish mathematician who worked in topology. mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Ba…

10.XI

Our (first) Mathematician of the Day is Tomás Bachiller a Spanish mathematician who worked in topology. 

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10.XI Our (second) Mathematician of the Day is Zdzisław Ignacy Pawlak a Polish mathematician and computer scientist who was known for his contribution to many branches of theoretical computer science. mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Pa…

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Our (second) Mathematician of the Day is Zdzisław Ignacy Pawlak a Polish mathematician and computer scientist who was known for his contribution to many branches of theoretical computer science. 

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✨ The next round of LMS Undergraduate Research Bursaries is now open! Open to UK-based undergraduates to explore the potential of becoming a researcher and to encourage them to consider a career in scientific research. Deadline: 1 Feb 2026 ➡️ lms.ac.uk/grants/undergr…

✨  The next round of LMS Undergraduate Research Bursaries is now open!

Open to UK-based undergraduates to explore the potential of becoming a researcher and to encourage them to consider a career in scientific research.

Deadline: 1 Feb 2026

➡️ lms.ac.uk/grants/undergr…
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11.XI Our Mathematician of the Day is JHC Whitehead a topologist and differential geometer who is best remembered for his work on homotopy equivalence. President of the London Mathematical Society London Mathematical Society 1953-55. mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Wh…

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Our Mathematician of the Day is JHC Whitehead a topologist and differential geometer who is best remembered for his work on homotopy equivalence. President of the London Mathematical Society <a href="/LondMathSoc/">London Mathematical Society</a> 1953-55. 

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