7th September

Mathematicians Of The Day

7th September

On this day in 1954, Lee Lorch was summoned to appear before the House Committee on Un-American Activities and was asked whether he was a member of the Communist Party. He was later dismissed by Fisk University.

The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1949.

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Born:

1707: Georges Buffon Ⓟ
1819: Jean-Claude Bouquet Ⓟ
1884: Georges Valiron
1901: Richard Robb
1903: Dudley Littlewood Ⓟ
1915: Kiyosi Ito Ⓟ
1924: Nikolai Nikolaevich Krasovskii Ⓟ
1948: Cheryl Praeger Ⓟ
1955: Efim Zelmanov Ⓟ

Died:

1682: Juan Caramuel Ⓟ
1918: Ludwig Sylow Ⓟ
1936: Marcel Grossmann Ⓟ
1947: Michele Cipolla Ⓟ
1951: Harry Schmidt Ⓟ
1956: Otto Yulyevich Schmidt Ⓟ
1985: George Pólya Ⓟ
1994: Abraham Gelbart Ⓟ
2003: David Spence Ⓟ
2016: Joseph Keller Ⓟ

Quotation of the day

From George Pólya

The first rule of discovery is to have brains and good luck. The second rule of discovery is to sit tight and wait till you get a bright idea.

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