Mathematicians Of The Day
25th June
On this day in 1649, Christopher Wren entered Wadham College, Oxford.
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Born:
- 1734: Monteiro da Rocha
- 1866: Ralph Sampson Ⓟ
- 1888: William Threlfall Ⓟ
- 1906: Samuel Verblunsky Ⓟ
- 1908: Gustav Elfving Ⓟ
- 1908: Willard Van Quine Ⓟ
- 1931: Anatoli Georgievich Vitushkin Ⓟ
Died:
- 1671: Giovanni Battista Riccioli Ⓟ
- 1936: Stefan Cohn-Vossen Ⓟ
- 1941: Alfred Pringsheim Ⓟ
- 1948: Bento Caraça Ⓟ
- 1974: Cornelius Lanczos Ⓟ
- 1978: Hsien C Wang Ⓟ
- 1989: Udo Wegner Ⓟ
- 1995: Ernest Walton Ⓟ
- 2006: Irving Kaplansky Ⓟ
- 2014: Abdulalim Shabazz Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Cornelius Lanczos
Most of the arts, as painting, sculpture, and music, have emotional appeal to the general public. This is because these arts can be experienced by some one or more of our senses. Such is not true of the art of mathematics; this art can be appreciated only by mathematicians, and to become a mathematician requires a long period of intensive training. The community of mathematicians is similar to an imaginary community of musical composers whose only satisfaction is obtained by the interchange among themselves of the musical scores they compose.