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Mathematicians Of The Day
30th January
On this day in 1884, Sofia Kovelevskaya gives her first university lecture in Stockholm. This was the first regular lecture by a woman at a research institution in any field in modern times. August Strindberg, the Swedish author, wrote in a local paper :-
A female professor is a pernicious and unpleasant phenomenon - even, one might say, a monstrosity.
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Born:
- 1619: Michelangelo Ricci Ⓟ
- 1755: Nikolai Fuss Ⓟ
- 1805: Edward Sang Ⓟ
- 1865: Georg Landsberg Ⓟ
- 1870: Ellice Horsburgh
- 1886: Annibale Comessatti Ⓟ
- 1894: Theodoros Varopoulos Ⓟ
- 1918: Heinz Rutishauser Ⓟ
- 1950: Andrei Andreevich Bolibrukh Ⓟ
Died:
- 1894: Moritz Abraham Stern Ⓟ
- 1922: Charles Cailler Ⓟ
- 1954: Gino Loria Ⓟ
- 1977: Harry Carver Ⓟ
- 1992: George Temple Ⓟ
- 1998: Samuel Eilenberg Ⓟ
- 2003: Paul-AndrĂ© Meyer Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Edward Sang
It is a trite remark, but one that cannot be too often repeated, that art and science go hand in hand.
