Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Here and there

Author: raj
Category: Finance, Miscellaneous

Lev Pontryagin was a great mathematician. Anyone who has studied Optimal Control Theory has heard of him, for instance. What might be less well-known is that Lev Pontryagin lost his eyesight at age 14, and that he was able to learn mathematics only because his mother (Tat’yana Andreevna Pontryagina) read mathematical books to him. Impressive!

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