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Mathematicians Of The Day

7th January

Born:

• 1859: Georges Humbert (poster)
• 1871: Émile Borel (poster)
• 1904: Gordon Whyburn (poster)
• 1907: Raymond Paley (poster)
• 1937: Evgenii Yakovlevich Khruslov (poster)

Died:

• 1893: Josef Stefan (poster)
• 1935: Ivan Vsevolodovich Meshchersky (poster)
• 1955: Edward Kasner (poster)
• 1974: Charles Coulson (poster)
• 1974: Philip Stein (poster)
• 1989: Frank Adams (poster)
• 1998: Richard Hamming (poster)
• 2010: Carlo Cercignani (poster)
• 2012: Herbert Wilf (poster)

Quotation of the day

From Émile Borel

Probabilities must be regarded as analogous to the measurement of physical magnitudes; that is to say, they can never be known exactly, but only within certain approximation.