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    1. Forgot to post on the day, but 21st September was the anniversary of Phyllis Nicolson's birth. If you've solved a first-order partial differential equation numerically, you probably used her work. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllis_Nicolson An amazing person; a tragic story. Cancer really is shit.
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    All those theorems or routines with surnames attached? There are real people behind them who lived, loved, and died. Often it's worth taking time to learn a bit more about them.
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