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Mathematicians Of The Day
12th March
On this day in 1883, the first regular meeting of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society was held and George Chrystal had the honour of giving the first introductory address, the subject of which was Present Fields of Mathematical Research.
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The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1985.
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The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1985.
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Born:
- 1685: George Berkeley Ⓟ
- 1824: Gustav Kirchhoff Ⓟ
- 1835: Simon Newcomb Ⓟ
- 1859: Ernesto Cesàro Ⓟ
- 1904: Lyudmila Vsevolodovna Keldysh Ⓟ
- 1908: Gianfranco Cimmino Ⓟ
- 1945: Vijay Patodi Ⓟ
- 1951: Stein Arild Stromme Ⓟ
Died:
- 1834: Karl Feuerbach Ⓟ
- 1843: Robert Murphy Ⓟ
- 1869: Louis Lefébure de Fourcy Ⓟ
- 1898: Johann Balmer Ⓟ
- 1905: Allen Whitworth Ⓟ
- 1932: John Kerr
- 1946: Leonida Tonelli Ⓟ
- 1953: Heinrich Jung Ⓟ
- 1972: Louis Mordell Ⓟ
- 1975: Israel Everett Glover Ⓟ
- 1987: Elgy Johnson Ⓟ
- 1990: Lamberto Cesari Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Louis Mordell
When I was at Manchester, where there was a modern swimming pool, I was looked on as a great man, not for so trivial a reason as being an FRS, but because I used to dive off a five-metre board.
