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Mathematicians Of The Day
2nd April
On this day in 1948 Kurt Gödel took his oath to become a United States citizen. He had passed his citizenship hearing the previous December.
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The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 2009.
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The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 2009.
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Born:
- 1618: Francesco Grimaldi Ⓟ
- 1874: Frank Ross Ⓟ
- 1878: Edward Kasner Ⓟ
- 1906: Shokichi Iyanaga Ⓟ
- 1908: Hans Reichardt Ⓟ
- 1930: Anatolii Asirovich Goldberg Ⓟ
- 1934: Paul Cohen Ⓟ
Died:
- 1872: Charles Hughes Terrot Ⓟ
- 1946: Dougald Mcquistan
- 1968: Alessandro Terracini Ⓟ
- 1986: Thomas Room Ⓟ
- 1995: Hannes Alfvén Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Hannes Alfvén
Scientists tend to resist interdisciplinary inquiries into their own territory. In many instances, such parochialism is founded on the fear that intrusion from other disciplines would compete unfairly for limited financial resources and thus diminish their own opportunity for research.
[Naming territorial dominance, greed, and fear of the unknown, as some of the influences on the increasing specialisation of science]
