First of all, I must say *thank you* for your friendship and support.
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A. The two prestigious websites 'Math Forum' and 'Mathematics Archives'
host archives of postings submitted to HM at:
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and
http://archives.math.utk.edu/hypermail/historia/
In this respect, I warmly thank Steve Weimar and Larry Husch for their
infinite kindness!
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C. On Sat, 13 Jun 1998, Ubiratan D'Ambrosio wrote:
| Una pregunta: quien fue Jorge Duclout, de Buenos Aires, que participo
| de los ICM de Heidelberg (1904) y de Cambridge (1912) como delegado
| de Argentina? Cual fue su participacion?
Ubi, I've gathered very little information on Jorge Duclout. Most
of it comes from Arq. Nicolas Babini [1]:
"Jorge Duclout (1853-1929) fue profesor de Estabilidad
en la hoy Facultad de Ingenieria a principios de siglo.
Mi padre lo describe en sus recuerdos (que yo edite y
pongo a su disposicion) como "un frances excelente,
conocedor de la matematica moderna", "el viejo Duclout,
siempre generoso", y menciona que le hizo ver su primer
trabajo cientifico (tenia entonces 22 an~os) antes de
publicarlo."
"Duclout era frances y al parecer llego a la Argentina
en la decada de 1880. Por lo que consegui hasta ahora,
sus primeros trabajos fueron cartograficos, luego fue
una especie de consultor en ingenieria, y finalmente se
convirtio en catedratico en la Facultad y en escuelas
de magisterio. Dassen le dedico un capitulo de su breve
historia del periodo 1872-1922 que le enviare. Lo que no
pude encontrar hasta ahora es alguna referencia a los
trabajos que habria enviado a congresos internacionales.
Un dato funebre: murio completamente olvidado, y Dassen
no pudo pronunciar el unico discurso de esa ocasion
porque cuando llego al cementerio ya lo habian enterrado."
I was leafing through the proceedings of the fifth ICM (Cambridge, 1912).
Duclout did not address any memoir in that Congress. Incidentally, the
other four Argentinian mathematicians that went to Cambridge were Romulo
Bianchedi, E.P. Bordmane, Ugo Broggi, and A.D. Otamendi.
[1] Nicolas Babini, son of Jose Babini (the well-known Argentinian
mathematician and math historian), is the editor of "Saber y Tiempo" [2],
a Journal on the History of Science -- in the forthcoming issue,
Mariano Hormigon writes an article on the mathematics in Spain.
Besides, Laura Levi (who fortunately inhabits this forum!) has been writing
a biography of his father:
"Beppo Levi en Italia: Datos biograficos y recuerdos. Primera parte
(1875-1928)", _Saber y Tiempo_, vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 293-308, 1997.
"Beppo Levi en Italia: Datos biograficos y recuerdos. Segunda parte
(1928-1939)", _Saber y Tiempo_, vol. 1, no. 4, pp. 407-422, 1997.
"Beppo Levi en Argentina y el Instituto de Matematica de Rosario
(1939-1961)", _Saber y Tiempo_, vol. 2, no. 5, pp. 49-69, 1998.
[2] SABER Y TIEMPO, Revista de Historia de la Ciencia. Publicacion de la
Asociacion Biblioteca Jose Babini. Avda. Santa Fe 1145, 3o., 1059 Buenos
Aires, Argentina. Director: Nicolas Babini <babini@netex.com.ar>
Publicacion semestral. Numeros aparecidos: 1(1996)-5(1998)
Suscripcion (4 numeros): USD 40; numero suelto: USD 10.
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D. On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Samuel S. Kutler wrote:
| The smallest squared square consists of a square dissected into
| 21 squares all different.
In 1978, Duijvestijn, as a result of a computer search, reported the
result above mentioned. Cf. "Simple perfect squared square of lowest
order", _Journal of Combinatorial Theory_, serie B, vol. 25, no. 2,
pp. 240-243, 1978.
| It was to my amazement that there can be no cubed cube. I know the
| proof of Tutte, which is very beautiful. But where and when did he
| publish it?
Much has been said on this, I presume. Anyhow I think it might be
rewarding to consult the following article:
Federico, P.J.: "Squaring Rectangles and Squares: A Historical Review with
Annotated Bibliography" (pp. 173-196), in "Graph Theory and Related Topics",
Proceedings of the Conference in honour of Professor W. T. Tutte on the
occasion of his sixtieth birthday, held at the University of Waterloo,
Waterloo, Ontario, July 5-9, 1977. Edited by J.A. Bondy and U.S.R. Murty,
New York-London: Academic Press, 1979.
which contains a detailed bibliography of 76 items.
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E. On Fri, 26 Jun 1998, Dino Surendran wrote:
| ... I know that Robert Dawson <Robert.Dawson@STMARYS.CA> has
| shown that n dimensional space cannot be filled with n-cubes of
| different size, for n>=3, which generalises tutte's result a lot.
| ...
Cf.
"On the impossibility of packing space with different cubes", _Journal
of Combinatorial Theory_, serie A, vol. 48, no. 2, pp. 174-188, 1988.
R.G. Stanton reviews this article for ZfM as follows:
"It is known that space can not be filled by disjoint cubes,
no two cubes being the same size and the lengths of the edges
of the cubes being integers. In this paper, the author shows
that the condition on the length of the edges can be dropped."
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F. On Tue, 07 Jul 1998, Bernadete Barbosa Morey wrote:
| Alguem tem alguma informacao ou referencia sobre um autor
| chamado Fukidid? (Nao sei se assim que se escreve seu nome).
| ...
As Antreas already pointed out to me this afternoon, "Fukidid" is
Thucydides [in Russian]. I would add other transliterations:
Thucydides = Tucbidides = Thukydides = Thoukydidees = Tucidide = ...
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Greetings from Montevideo,
Julio GC