#mathmatician

[is-newtonswife]

“Huygens became interested in games of chance after he visited Paris in 1655 and encountered the work of Fermat, Blaise Pascal and Girard Desargues years earlier. He eventually published what was, at the time, the most coherent presentation of a mathematical approach to games of chance in De Ratiociniis in Ludo Aleae. Huygens included five challenging problems at the end of the book that became the standard test for anyone wishing to display their mathematical skill in games of chance for the next sixty years. People who worked on these problems included Abraham de Moivre, Jacob Bernoulli, Johannes Hudde, Baruch Spinoza, and Leibniz.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christiaan_Huygens?wprov=sfti1#De_Ratiociniis_in_Ludo_Aleae

[menandwomanofhistory]

Tom Lehrer

[lthmath]

Donald Knuth

Celebrating Donald Ervin Knuth's birthday ;) He was born on 10th January 1938). He is an American computer scientist, mathematician, and professor emeritus at Stanford University.

He contributed to the development of the rigorous analysis of the computational complexity of algorithms and systematized formal mathematical techniques for it. In the process he also popularized the asymptotic notation.

He is most famous for inventing the LaTeX typesetting language.

TeX is a typesetting system (or "formatting system") designed and mostly written by Donald Knuth and released in 1978. TeX was designed with two main goals in mind: to allow anybody to produce high-quality books using minimal effort, and to provide a system that would give exactly the same results on all computers, at any point in time. TeX is free software, which made it accessible to a wide range of users.

TeX is a popular means of typesetting complex mathematical formulae; it has been noted as one of the most sophisticated digital typographical systems. TeX is popular in academia, especially in mathematics, computer science, economics, engineering, linguistics, physics, statistics, and quantitative psychology.

[moehistory]

Due to her fragile health, stays in bed most of time. She continuously reads books and questions because doubting herself proves her existence. When she is bored, she uses coordinates and algebra to catch a fly.

René Descartes

[computerhistorymuseum]

Please enjoy a new blog post about 2017 Fellow Award Honoree Cleve Moler. This year CHM honors American mathematician and inventor of the MATLAB numerical computing environment, Cleve Moler. Moler created the original MATLAB program, short for “Matrix Laboratory,” while at the University of New Mexico as a quick calculator for his students doing basic matrix operations. Today MATLAB is no longer a single program but a platform and an ecosystem used by millions of scientists and engineers around the world. Its maker, MathWorks, has 4,000 employees in two dozen cities and Moler serves as Founder and Chief Mathematician at the company. http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/cleve-moler-mozart-of-the-matrix/

[is-newtonswife]

Sibi gratulentur Mortales,

Tale tantumque exstitisse

HUMANI GENERIS DECUS.

Today (March 31) is the date that Sir Isaac Newton passed away (in New Style), and René Descartes was born on.

[moehistory]

A leader of new religion who believes in a right-angled triangle. She strongly believes there is mysterious power at the hypotenuse of a triangle. She found a theorem to find out the length of the hypotenuse and her followers memorise the theorem as a prayer.

Pythagoras

[yugiohtournaments]

Best Level Three Spellcaster - Round 1 Match 36

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