Timeline for Which mathematicians have influenced you the most?
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| May 23, 2011 at 16:45 | comment | added | Gerald Edgar | divulgation (plural divulgations) ... 1. The act of divulging or publishing. publication (obs) Secrecy hath no use than divulgation. ... 2. The disclosure or revelation of a secret ... 3. The communication of technology or science to the general public, public awareness of science. | |
| May 23, 2011 at 9:52 | comment | added | Pietro Majer | Yes, the influence of Martin Gardner in the divulgation of math is still to be fully understood. When I was 13, finding maths publications was more difficult than finding drugs... His articles on the Italian translation of Scientific American (Le Scienze) were really a relief. | |
| May 27, 2010 at 23:42 | comment | added | Jose Brox | Unfortunately, he died on May 22 :'( | |
| Nov 17, 2009 at 19:55 | comment | added | Jon Awbrey | Gardner's column on Catalan Numbers and Planted Plane Trees made me fall in love with mathematics all over again — after a long spell of doldrums when the tedium of my undergradgrind coursework had all but extinguished the last beamish bits of joy in it. | |
| Nov 16, 2009 at 0:59 | comment | added | Jose Brox | Yes, I think he should definitely count! +1 | |
| Nov 14, 2009 at 19:43 | history | answered | Gerald Edgar | CC BY-SA 2.5 |