Mostrando entradas con la etiqueta paul kammerer. Mostrar todas las entradas
Mostrando entradas con la etiqueta paul kammerer. Mostrar todas las entradas

domingo, 12 de enero de 2014

EVARISTE GALOIS (AND PAUL KAMMERER)

"One has to be brave to die at twenty."
Last words of Évariste Galois, Napoleonic-era mathematician, whose short life was a chain of misfortunes in the days of the French Revolution and Restoration.

And his connection with Austrian twentieth-century mathematician Paul Kammerer, probability, serendipity, and chaos theory: