#ATTENDANCE QUIZ FOR LECTURE 8 of Dr. Z.'s Math454(02) Rutgers University

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THE NUMBER OF ATTENDANCE QUESTIONS WERE:

PLEASE LIST ALL THE QUESTIONS FOLLOWED, AFTER EACH BY THE ANSWER

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Attendance Problem 1:

Where was the founder and president of OEIS born? What is the DOB?

Neil Sloane was born in Beaumaris, Wales on October 10, 1939.

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Attendance Problem 2:

Who is the most famous colleague of Tutte in WWII?

The most famous colleague of Tutte in WWII would probably be Alan Turing.
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Attendance Problem 3:

M.C. "Marko" Schutzenberger is considered by many people a crackpot even though he is a respected mathematician/CS/Linguist. Why?

Many people were offput by his opposition to neo-Darwinism and his paper about in a book titled "Mathematical Challenges to the Neo-Darwinian Interpretation of Evolution".

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Attendance Problem 4:

W.T. Gowers. Why was Dr. Z disappointed at the great sir W Thimoty Gowers?

Dr. Z was disappointed at the great sir W. T. Gowers because Gowers didn't protest enough against the editorial injustices that Ted Hill faced when Hill was trying to publish his paper. Instead, Gowers targeted Hill's paper and tried to discredit it.