{"id":3193,"date":"2011-07-19T13:43:07","date_gmt":"2011-07-19T13:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/?p=3193"},"modified":"2024-01-02T16:24:40","modified_gmt":"2024-01-02T16:24:40","slug":"the-matherati-index","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/the-matherati-index\/","title":{"rendered":"The Matherati: Index"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The psychologist Howard Gardner identified nine distinct types of human intelligence. It is perhaps not surprising that people with great verbal and linguistic dexterity have long had a word to describe themselves, the Literati<\/em>. Those of us with mathematical and logical reasoning capabilities I have therefore been calling the Matherati<\/a>, defined here<\/a>. I have tried to salute members of this group as I recall or encounter them.<\/p>\n

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This page lists the people I have currently written about or mentioned, in alpha order:
\nAlexander d’Arblay<\/a>, John Aris<\/a>, John Atkinson<\/a>, John Bennett<\/a>, Christophe Bertrand<\/a>, Matthew Piers Watt Boulton<\/a>, Joan Burchardt<\/a>, David Caminer<\/a>, Boris N. Delone<\/a>, the Delone family<\/a>, Nicolas Fatio de Duillier<\/a>, Michael Dummett<\/a>, Sean Eberhard<\/a>, Edward Frenkel<\/a>,\u00a0Martin Gardner<\/a>, Kurt Godel<\/a>, Charles Hamblin<\/a>, Thomas Harriott<\/a>, Martin Harvey<\/a>, Fritz John<\/a>,\u00a0 Ernest Kaye<\/a>, Robert May<\/a>, Robin Milner<\/a>, Isaac Newton<\/a>,\u00a0Henri Poincare<\/a>,\u00a0Mervyn Pragnell<\/a>, Malcolm Rennie<\/a>, Dennis Ritchie<\/a>, Ibn Sina<\/a>, Adam Spencer<\/a>, Bella Subbotovskaya<\/a>, Bill Thurston<\/a>, Alan Turing<\/a>, Alexander Yessenin-Volpin<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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And lists:
\n20th-Century Mathematicians<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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