Mathematicians Of The Day

25th January



On this day in 1915, Gaston Julia was injured in the face by a bullet. He wore a leather cover over his nose for the rest of his life.
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The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1958.

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Quotation of the day

From Joseph-Louis Lagrange
[said about the chemist Lavoisier:]
It took the mob only a moment to remove his head; a century will not suffice to reproduce it.
Quoted in H Eves, An introduction to the history of mathematics (Philadelphia 1983).