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Mathematicians Of The Day
19th January
On this day in 1882, J J Sylvester wrote a letter to support a request of two associates that Christine Ladd's fellowship be continued for another year. She had been allowed to attend the all-male Johns Hopkins in 1878. She had a $500 a year fellowship for the three years 1879-82, but she was not entitled to the title "Fellow" nor was her name recorded on the list of students at the university.
A (personally designed) stamp of one of today's mathematicians is at THIS LINK.
A (personally designed) stamp of one of today's mathematicians is at THIS LINK.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1781: Giorgio Bidone Ⓟ
- 1833: Alfred Clebsch Ⓟ
- 1851: Emanuel Czuber Ⓟ
- 1865: Hector Macdonald Ⓟ
- 1877: William Gentle Ⓟ
- 1879: Guido Fubini Ⓟ
- 1908: Aleksandr G Kurosh Ⓟ
- 1911: Garrett Birkhoff Ⓟ
- 1912: Leonid Vital'evich Kantorovich Ⓟ
- 1917: Graham Higman Ⓟ
Died:
- 1930: Frank Ramsey Ⓟ
- 1951: John Meiklejohn Ⓟ
- 1954: Theodor Kaluza Ⓟ
- 1975: Reuben R McDaniel Ⓟ
- 1982: Demetrios Magiros Ⓟ
- 2007: Asger Aaboe Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Frank Ramsey
Suppose a contradiction were to be found in the axioms of set theory. Do you seriously believe that a bridge would fall down?
