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Mathematicians Of The Day
10th December
On this day in 1934, a meeting at the Café Capoulade in Paris including Henri Cartan, Claude Chevalley, Jean Delsarte, Jean Dieudonné, René de Possel and André Weil led to the foundation of what became Bourbaki.
See THIS LINK.
The café is now a branch of Burger King. See THIS LINK.
On this day in 2012 Google released a Lovelace doodle
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 2022.
See THIS LINK.
The café is now a branch of Burger King. See THIS LINK.
On this day in 2012 Google released a Lovelace doodle
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 2022.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1804: Carl Jacobi Ⓟ
- 1815: Ada Lovelace Ⓟ
- 1847: Irving Stringham Ⓟ
- 1920: Alfred Goldie Ⓟ
- 1929: Laurence Raymond Harper
- 1961: Oded Schramm Ⓟ
Died:
- 1626: Edmund Gunter
- 1949: Luigi Berzolari Ⓟ
- 1957: Ólafur Daníelsson Ⓟ
- 1968: Clement Durell
- 1986: Theodore Combridge Ⓟ
- 1995: Sarvadaman Chowla Ⓟ
- 1995: Robert C Thompson
- 1995: Steven Vajda Ⓟ
- 2011: Ernst Specker Ⓟ
- 2016: Felix Browder Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Ada Lovelace
In almost every computation a great variety of arrangements for the succession of the processes is possible, and various considerations must influence the selections amongst them for the purposes of a calculating engine. One essential object is to choose that arrangement which shall tend to reduce to a minimum the time necessary for completing the calculation.
