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Mathematicians Of The Day
17th July
On this day in 1935, the first entry was made in The Scottish Book.
See THIS LINK.
On this day in 2018 Google released a Georges Lemaître doodle.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1994.
See THIS LINK.
On this day in 2018 Google released a Georges Lemaître doodle.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1994.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1831: Amédée Mannheim Ⓟ
- 1837: Wilhelm Lexis Ⓟ
- 1863: Herbert Richmond Ⓟ
- 1868: Peter Comrie Ⓟ
- 1894: Georges Lemaître Ⓟ
- 1894: Warren Weaver Ⓟ
- 1909: Geoffrey Walker Ⓟ
- 1913: Giuseppe Pompilj Ⓟ
- 1913: Alberto Barajas Ⓟ
- 1944: Krystyna Kuperberg Ⓟ
- 1975: Terence Tao Ⓟ
Died:
- 1790: Johann (II) Bernoulli Ⓟ
- 1899: Charles Graves Ⓟ
- 1912: Henri Poincaré Ⓟ
- 1917: Giuseppe Veronese Ⓟ
- 1949: Roland Richardson Ⓟ
- 1980: Boris Nikolaevich Delone Ⓟ
- 1993: Adolph Pavlovich Yushkevich Ⓟ
- 1998: James Lighthill Ⓟ
- 2007: François Bruhat Ⓟ
- 2011: Norrie Everitt Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Henri Poincaré
... by natural selection our mind has adapted itself to the conditions of the external world. It has adopted the geometry most advantageous to the species or, in other words, the most convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.
