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Mathematicians Of The Day
24th March
On this day in 1899, Rene Louis Baire defended his doctoral thesis on the theory of functions of a real variable. He was influential in introducing transfinite set theory into analysis.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1985.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1985.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1809: Joseph Liouville Ⓟ
- 1835: Josef Stefan Ⓟ
- 1842: William Niven Ⓟ
- 1848: Jules Tannery Ⓟ
- 1863: Crossley Barlow
- 1892: Marston Morse Ⓟ
- 1913: Ralph Fox Ⓟ
- 1924: David Borwein Ⓟ
- 1934: James Glimm Ⓟ
- 1948: Sun-Yung Alice Chang Ⓟ
Died:
- 1945: Leopold Klug Ⓟ
- 1956: Christine Hamill Ⓟ
- 1956: Edmund Whittaker Ⓟ
- 1976: Francis Murnaghan Ⓟ
- 2013: Guri Ivanovich Marchuk Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Edmund Whittaker
I do not remember ever having seen a sustained argument by any author which, starting from philosophical or theological premises likely to meet with general acceptance, reached the conclusion that a praiseworthy ordering of one's life is to devote it to research in mathematics.
