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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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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 Simon Newcomb
If my impressions are correct, our educational planing mill cuts down all the knots of genius, and reduces the best of the men who go through it to much the same standard.
