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Mathematicians Of The Day
9th February
On this day in 1937, Ruth Moufang habilitated, being only the third German woman to habilitate in mathematics. However, the Nazis refused her permission to teach (because she was a woman), so from 1937 she became an industrial mathematician working on elasticity theory. In fact this gives Moufang the unique position of being the first German woman with a doctorate to be employed in industry. She may actually be the first ever such woman anywhere.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1932.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1932.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1775: Farkas Bolyai Ⓟ
- 1880: Lipót Fejér Ⓟ
- 1907: Donald Coxeter Ⓟ
- 1908: Alexander Dinghas Ⓟ
- 1927: Masayoshi Nagata Ⓟ
Died:
- 1811: Nevil Maskelyne Ⓟ
- 1883: Henry Smith Ⓟ
- 1937: Francis Macaulay Ⓟ
- 1940: Antoni Hoborski Ⓟ
- 1970: Leo Moser Ⓟ
- 1988: Yitz Herstein Ⓟ
- 2003: Gündüz Ikeda Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Donald Coxeter
There are so many branches of the subject in which I am almost as ignorant as the proverbial man in the street. I must ask you to forgive me if I concentrate on my own favourite branches, and I must take the risk of offending various geometers who will ask why I have not dealt with algebraic geometry, differential geometry, symplectic geometry, continuous geometry, metric spaces, Banach spaces, linear programming, and so on.
