Can you win at Last To Zero?
Start with 60. Each turn, a player reduces the number by any of its positive divisors. If the resulting number is 0, the player loses.
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Born 20 November 1924
Died 14 October 2010
Benoit Mandelbrot was largely responsible for the present interest in Fractal Geometry. He showed how Fractals can occur in many different places in both Mathematics and elsewhere in Nature.
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Today in Mathematics.
Born 16 September 1494
Died 22 July 1575
Francisco Maurolico was an Italian Benedictine who wrote important books on Greek mathematics. He also worked on geometry, the theory of numbers, optics, conics and mechanics.
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Today in Mathematics.
Born about 1700
Died 30 July 1762
William Braikenridge was an Scottish mathematician and theologian who worked on geometry and independently discovered many of the same results as Maclaurin.
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Today in Mathematics.
Born 15 July 1906
Died 17 July 1993
Adolph Pavlovich Yushkevich was a Soviet historian of mathematics. He was an expert in medieval mathematics of the East and the work of Leonhard Euler.
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