Mathematicians Of The Day
2nd July
On this day in 1971, the first meeting of the British Society for the History of Mathematics took place at Thames Polytechnic [now the University of Greenwich].
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Born:
- 1622: RenĂ© de Sluze Ⓟ
- 1646: Choi Seok-jeong Ⓟ
- 1823: Hugh Blackburn Ⓟ
- 1842: George Thom Ⓟ
- 1847: Andrew Gray Ⓟ
- 1852: William Burnside Ⓟ
- 1889: Doris Adams Ⓟ
- 1892: Arnold Walfisz Ⓟ
- 1906: Hans Bethe Ⓟ
- 1925: Olga Arsenievna Oleinik Ⓟ
- 1926: Rebeca Cherep de Guber Ⓟ
- 1927: James Mackay Ⓟ
Died:
- 1613: Bartholomeo Pitiscus Ⓟ
- 1621: Thomas Harriot Ⓟ
- 1919: Theodor Reye Ⓟ
- 1926: Peter Ramsay
- 1947: Nikolai Chebotaryov Ⓟ
- 2016: Rudolf Kalman Ⓟ
- 2021: Dorothy Foster Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Hans Bethe
No one any longer pays attention to - if I may call it - the spirit of physics, the idea of discovery, the idea of understanding. I think it's difficult to make clear to the non-physicist the beauty of how it fits together, of how you can build a world picture, and the beauty that the laws of physics are immutable.