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Mathematicians Of The Day
9th August
On this day in 1897, the first International Congress of Mathematicians opened in Zürich.
See THIS LINK.
See THIS LINK.
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Born:
- 1537: Francesco Barozzi Ⓟ
- 1602: Gilles Roberval
- 1697: Ramiro Rampinelli Ⓟ
- 1906: Roberto Frucht Ⓟ
- 1930: William Coppel Ⓟ
- 1932: Francis Allotey Ⓟ
- 1940: Linda Goldway Keen Ⓟ
Died:
- 1929: Pierre Fatou Ⓟ
- 1932: John Charles Fields Ⓟ
- 1950: Rudolf Fueter Ⓟ
- 1990: Władysław Orlicz Ⓟ
- 1994: Helena Rasiowa Ⓟ
- 2005: Renfrey Potts Ⓟ
- 2007: Graham Allan Ⓟ
- 2022: Mario Fiorentini Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Władysław Orlicz
Mathematics is a free flow of thoughts and concepts which a mathematician, in the same way as a musician does with the tones of music and a poet with words, puts together into theorems and theories.
