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Mathematicians Of The Day
27th January
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Born:
- 1772: Robert Haldane Ⓟ
- 1832: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson Ⓟ
- 1889: Balthasar van der Pol Ⓟ
- 1895: Karl Reinhardt Ⓟ
- 1903: Howard Percy Robertson Ⓟ
- 1931: Igor Kluvánek Ⓟ
Died:
- 1667: Gregory of Saint-Vincent Ⓟ
- 1823: Charles Hutton Ⓟ
- 1860: János Bolyai Ⓟ
- 1895: James Cockle Ⓟ
- 1927: Henry Heaton Ⓟ
- 1947: Alexander Brown
- 1965: Philip Franklin Ⓟ
- 1969: Balfour Lockhart Ⓟ
- 1972: Richard Courant Ⓟ
- 1973: Alan Broadbent Ⓟ
- 1995: Raphael Robinson Ⓟ
- 2001: Robert Rankin Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From János Bolyai
Out of nothing I have created a strange new universe.
[A reference to the creation of a non-euclidean geometry.]
