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Mathematicians Of The Day
29th March
On this day in 1938, Ludwig Bieberbach wrote below Issai Schur's signature on a document of the Prussian Academy:-
I find it surprising that Jews are still members of academic commissions.Schur was forced to resign a week later.
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Born:
- 1825: Francesco Faà di Bruno Ⓟ
- 1830: Thomas Bond Sprague Ⓟ
- 1873: Tullio Levi-Civita Ⓟ
- 1893: Jason J Nassau Ⓟ
- 1896: Wilhelm Ackermann Ⓟ
- 1909: Béla Gyires Ⓟ
- 1912: Martin Eichler Ⓟ
- 1912: Caius Iacob Ⓟ
- 1918: Lê Văn Thiêm Ⓟ
- 1945: Joséphine Guidy-Wandja Ⓟ
Died:
- 1794: Marquis de Condorcet Ⓟ
- 1870: John T Graves Ⓟ
- 1932: Alexander Burgess Ⓟ
- 1944: Grace Chisholm Ⓟ
- 1946: Erich Bessel-Hagen Ⓟ
- 1980: William Cochran Ⓟ
- 1983: Maurice Kendall Ⓟ
- 1996: Gordon Pask Ⓟ
- 2015: Emilio Cafaro Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Maurice Kendall
Statistics is the branch of scientific method which deals with the data obtained by counting or measuring the properties of populations of natural phenomena.
