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Mathematicians Of The Day
27th March
On this day in 1794, Nicholas de Condorcet was captured and imprisoned by his French revolutionary rivals. Two days later he was found dead in his prison cell and it is not known if he died from natural causes or whether he was murdered or took his own life.
The postage stamp designed by of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1935.
The postage stamp designed by of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1935.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1857: Karl Pearson Ⓟ
- 1895: Ole Peder Arvesen Ⓟ
- 1897: Douglas Hartree Ⓟ
- 1905: László Kalmár Ⓟ
- 1927: Horst Sachs Ⓟ
- 1941: Peter Stefan Ⓟ
Died:
- 1888: Francesco Faà di Bruno Ⓟ
- 1925: Carl Neumann Ⓟ
- 1929: Samuil Osipovich Shatunovsky Ⓟ
- 1972: Maurits Escher Ⓟ
- 1993: Boris Khvedelidze Ⓟ
- 2010: Sheila Power Tinney Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Karl Pearson
The right to live does not connote the right of each man to reproduce his kind ... As we lessen the stringency of natural selection, and more and more of the weaklings and the unfit survive, we must increase the standard, mental and physical, of parentage.
