The Doppelganger Thread

Left: B.L. van der Waerden (2 February 1903 - 12 January 1996) got his PhD degree at the university of Amsterdam in 1926 supervised by Hk. de Vries. He was a geometry professor at the university of Groningen from 1928 until 1931 and after that at the university of Leipzig. From 1948 till 1951 he was professor of pure and applied mathematics at the university of Amsterdam. After this he accepted a chair at the university of Zürich where he remained for the rest of his life.

Right: Tim Ferguson (born 16 November 1963 in Sydney, NSW) is an Australian comedian and television presenter. Tim Ferguson grew up in the country town of Blayney, New South Wales before moving to Canberra, where he attended the radical free-school School Without Walls and Narrabundah College. He is the son of Tony Ferguson, who was a Vietnam War correspondent, the first reporter to release news of the Tet Offensive to the world media. Tony became executive producer of This Day Tonight and Four Corners at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and an offsider of the ABC's managing director, David Hill.