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Mathematicians Of The Day
23rd February
On this day in 1828, Augustus De Morgan became the first professor of mathematics at London University.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1955.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1955.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1583: Jean-Baptiste Morin Ⓟ
- 1723: Richard Price Ⓟ
- 1756: František Josef Gerstner Ⓟ
- 1861: George Mathews Ⓟ
- 1905: Derrick Henry Lehmer Ⓟ
- 1917: Erling Sverdrup Ⓟ
- 1922: Anneli Lax Ⓟ
- 1930: Goro Shimura Ⓟ
- 1947: Robert Edward Bowen Ⓟ
- 1951: Shigefumi Mori Ⓟ
Died:
- 1560: Gaspar Lax Ⓟ
- 1844: Duncan Gregory Ⓟ
- 1855: Carl Friedrich Gauss Ⓟ
- 1917: Gaston Darboux Ⓟ
- 1922: Victor Bäcklund Ⓟ
- 1961: Elizabeth Stephansen Ⓟ
- 2016: Hendrika Swart Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Carl Friedrich Gauss
I confess that Fermat's Theorem as an isolated proposition has very little interest for me, because I could easily lay down a multitude of such propositions, which one could neither prove nor dispose of.
