Mathematicians Of The Day
10th May
On this day in 1910, Florence Nightingale was presented with the badge of honour of the Norwegian Red Cross Society. She died a few months later.
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Born:
- 1788: Augustin Fresnel Ⓟ
- 1847: Wilhelm Killing Ⓟ
- 1890: Bevan Braithwaite Baker
- 1899: Otakar Boruvka Ⓟ
- 1900: Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Ⓟ
- 1904: Edward McShane Ⓟ
- 1953: Peter Borwein Ⓟ
Died:
- 1822: Paolo Ruffini Ⓟ
- 1829: Thomas Young Ⓟ
- 1924: August Gutzmer Ⓟ
- 1933: Duilio Gigli
- 1941: Diederik Korteweg Ⓟ
- 1957: Guido Ascoli Ⓟ
- 1989: Hassler Whitney Ⓟ
- 1992: Kollagunta Ramanathan Ⓟ
- 2003: Ambros Speiser Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Augustin Fresnel
Nature is not embarrassed by difficulties of analysis.