Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Reader's Digest. Oct. 1977.
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July 4th
| 1662 | Entry from Samuel Pepys' diary.: "By and by comes Mr. Cooper ... of whom I entend to learn Mathematiques; and so we begin with him today .... After an hour's being with him at Arithmetique, my first attempt being to learn the Multiplication table, then we parted till tomorrow." At the time Pepys held a position akin to a modern Secretary of the Navy.
More information about: Samuel Pepys Pepys' Diary Samuel Cooper |
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| 1843 | Liouville began an address to the Academy of Sciences with the words: "I hope to interest the Academy in announcing [that in] the papers of Evariste Galois I have found a solution, as precise as it is profound, of this beautiful problem: whether or not [the general equation of fifth degree] is solvable by radicals." This work of Galois was published in 1846.
More information about: Evariste Galois Joseph Liouville |
| 1963 | Headline from San Francisco Chronicle read "A Milestone in Math--Professor's New Concept" and the accompanying article by David Perlman announced Paul J. Cohen's proof of the independence of the axiom of choice in set theory. For this result and for proving the independence of the continuum hypothesis, Cohen received the Fields Medal at the 1966 ICM in Moscow.
More information about: Paul J. Cohen The Continuum Hypothesis |
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