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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.
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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
Mathematics is the queen of the sciences and number theory is the queen of mathematics.
