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Mathematicians Of The Day
11th February
On this day in 1826, University College of London was founded. It was the first university institution to be founded in London and the first in England to be established on an entirely secular basis, to admit students regardless of their religion and to admit women on equal terms with men. The first professor of mathematics at UCL was Augustus De Morgan.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 2005.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 2005.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1657: Bernard de Fontenelle Ⓟ
- 1800: Henry Fox Talbot Ⓟ
- 1839: J Willard Gibbs Ⓟ
- 1854: Benjamin Osgood Peirce Ⓟ
- 1862: Francis Macaulay Ⓟ
- 1865: Anders Wiman Ⓟ
- 1887: John Jackson Ⓟ
- 1897: Emil Post Ⓟ
- 1909: Friedrich Bachmann Ⓟ
- 1909: Claude Chevalley Ⓟ
- 1915: Richard Hamming Ⓟ
- 1917: Andrzej Alexiewicz Ⓟ
- 1920: Ernst Specker Ⓟ
- 1920: Ernst Selmer Ⓟ
- 1921: Yozo Matsushima Ⓟ
- 1927: Dimitrei D Stancu Ⓟ
Died:
- 1617: Giovanni Magini Ⓟ
- 1626: Pietro Cataldi
- 1650: René Descartes Ⓟ
- 1868: Léon Foucault Ⓟ
- 1923: Wilhelm Killing Ⓟ
- 1942: Egbert van Kampen Ⓟ
- 1947: Nicolae Abramescu Ⓟ
- 1974: Vladimir Smirnov Ⓟ
- 1976: Dorothy Wrinch Ⓟ
- 2008: Alexander Andreevich Samarskii Ⓟ
- 2016: Hans Meinhardt Ⓟ
- 2021: Isadore Singer Ⓟ
- 2025: Yvonne Bruhat Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From René Descartes
Of all things, good sense is the most fairly distributed: everyone thinks he is so well supplied with it that even those who are the hardest to satisfy in every other respect never desire more of it than they already have.
