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Mathematicians Of The Day
20th March
On this day in 1732, at the age of 21, Laura Bassi became the first woman elected to the Bologna Academy of Science. The next was Émilie du Châtelet in 1746.
A (personally designed) stamp of one of today's mathematicians is at THIS LINK.
A (personally designed) stamp of one of today's mathematicians is at THIS LINK.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1840: Franz Mertens Ⓟ
- 1884: Philipp Frank Ⓟ
- 1895: Stefan Kaczmarz Ⓟ
- 1938: Sergei Novikov Ⓟ
- 1941: Aderemi Kuku Ⓟ
Died:
- 1895: Ludwig Schläfli Ⓟ
- 1903: Carl Bjerknes Ⓟ
- 1977: Kenjiro Shoda Ⓟ
- 1983: Ivan Matveevich Vinogradov Ⓟ
- 1993: Børge Jessen Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Aderemi Kuku
I like to tell young people in Africa that I grew up in Africa like any of them. ... So that shows that the sky is the limit for everybody who aspires.
