Mathematicians Of The Day

23rd January



On this day in 1883 a letter was circulated by Cargill Knott, A J G Barclay and A Y Fraser proposing that the Edinburgh Mathematical Society be formed.
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Quotation of the day

From David Hilbert
The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality.
Quoted in N Rose Mathematical Maxims and Minims (Raleigh N C 1988).